Hello,
I was in the process of upgrading an older build with more memory and a new M2 NVME Samsung 980 SSD. My motherboard, (Asus M5A97 LE R2.0), doesn't have a M2 slot on it. However, I purchased a PCIE adapter card off of Amazon and it's recognized when doing a fresh install of Windows 10 off of a USB stick. When I try to boot my computer, the bios doesn't recognize my new 980 SSD, only my older 860 SATA SSD. I upgraded to the latest bios version for my MOBO, version 2701, but it still doesn't support my new SSD. I then followed a Youtube tutorial to use UEFI tools to install the NVME driver onto the .cap bios file. While this works, EZ flash in Windows doesn't allow me to update the driver with the newly modified one as I currently have the latest one installed in my bios. It won't let me downgrade to an older version either. I tried doing this through the bios but I get a "security verification" error when I try to change the bios, presumably because I have the most current bios update installed. I don't have a flashback button on or outside my MOBO so the old school method of flashing the bios without a CPU doesn't work. This would work in theory as I would theoretically be forcing the bios to accept whatever version of new bios file I tell it to install, thus bypassing ez flash.
I'm at a loss, short of just buying a new MOBO which I don't want to do on an old build with old RAM, I'm not sure what to do. I wish I could change the attributes in the . CAP file to trick ez flash into thinking I'm loading a new version of the bios file. I think this would do the trick, but I'm unsure of how to modify the .CAP bios file attributes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I was in the process of upgrading an older build with more memory and a new M2 NVME Samsung 980 SSD. My motherboard, (Asus M5A97 LE R2.0), doesn't have a M2 slot on it. However, I purchased a PCIE adapter card off of Amazon and it's recognized when doing a fresh install of Windows 10 off of a USB stick. When I try to boot my computer, the bios doesn't recognize my new 980 SSD, only my older 860 SATA SSD. I upgraded to the latest bios version for my MOBO, version 2701, but it still doesn't support my new SSD. I then followed a Youtube tutorial to use UEFI tools to install the NVME driver onto the .cap bios file. While this works, EZ flash in Windows doesn't allow me to update the driver with the newly modified one as I currently have the latest one installed in my bios. It won't let me downgrade to an older version either. I tried doing this through the bios but I get a "security verification" error when I try to change the bios, presumably because I have the most current bios update installed. I don't have a flashback button on or outside my MOBO so the old school method of flashing the bios without a CPU doesn't work. This would work in theory as I would theoretically be forcing the bios to accept whatever version of new bios file I tell it to install, thus bypassing ez flash.
I'm at a loss, short of just buying a new MOBO which I don't want to do on an old build with old RAM, I'm not sure what to do. I wish I could change the attributes in the . CAP file to trick ez flash into thinking I'm loading a new version of the bios file. I think this would do the trick, but I'm unsure of how to modify the .CAP bios file attributes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.