I'm putting together a new build.
Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Fractal Designs Core 500 Mini ITX case
Noctua NH-D15 - Just fits with second fan mounted outside case
Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600
EVGA nVidia GT1030 PCIe (DVI)
Storage - here lies the problem
TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA Zero Z340 1TB - not detected
Samsung 860 EV0 1TB SSD (SATA) - Boot drive (Not GPT... yet)
Samsung 840 EV0 500GB SSD (SATA) - scratch drive
My issues stem from trying to get the NVMe T-Force drive working.
I'm upgrading from an Intel Z77 DS5H based system, and was going to image the Samsung 860 EVO onto the NVMe drive, however the first time I booted, my keyboard wasn't plugged in, so the system booted to the existing Intel chipset Win10 install. I panicked, waiting for the thing to BSoD and screw everything up... but... no.... it booted... perfectly, after a lot of dickering and updating! After thirty years in this game I was dumbstruck. I've never known the equivalent of a heart, lung and intestine transplant to work that well. I think I had just one device driver fail, which was fixed by a simple driver update.
All of which is background info. My actual problem is that the B550i BIOS isn't seeing the NVMe drive. I'm not worried about Windows yet, I just need to get it seen in the BIOS.
I've tried both M.2 slots, I've updated the BIOS to F11p (was F3). I've played with the PCIe bifurcation settings, but it just doesn't show up under NVMe configuration in the BIOS.
I'm aware of the fact that an MBR partitioned boot drive isn't ideal for performance - however I want to clone the 860 EVO to the NVMe drive BEFORE I use MBR2GPT or similar to convert to UEFI boot (want a backup copy of Win10 first).
So, I would be very grateful for any pointers regarding M.2 and NVMe config in the BIOS to try and get the drive to be seen.
Thanks in advance!
Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Fractal Designs Core 500 Mini ITX case
Noctua NH-D15 - Just fits with second fan mounted outside case
Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600
EVGA nVidia GT1030 PCIe (DVI)
Storage - here lies the problem
TEAMGROUP T-Force CARDEA Zero Z340 1TB - not detected
Samsung 860 EV0 1TB SSD (SATA) - Boot drive (Not GPT... yet)
Samsung 840 EV0 500GB SSD (SATA) - scratch drive
My issues stem from trying to get the NVMe T-Force drive working.
I'm upgrading from an Intel Z77 DS5H based system, and was going to image the Samsung 860 EVO onto the NVMe drive, however the first time I booted, my keyboard wasn't plugged in, so the system booted to the existing Intel chipset Win10 install. I panicked, waiting for the thing to BSoD and screw everything up... but... no.... it booted... perfectly, after a lot of dickering and updating! After thirty years in this game I was dumbstruck. I've never known the equivalent of a heart, lung and intestine transplant to work that well. I think I had just one device driver fail, which was fixed by a simple driver update.
All of which is background info. My actual problem is that the B550i BIOS isn't seeing the NVMe drive. I'm not worried about Windows yet, I just need to get it seen in the BIOS.
I've tried both M.2 slots, I've updated the BIOS to F11p (was F3). I've played with the PCIe bifurcation settings, but it just doesn't show up under NVMe configuration in the BIOS.
I'm aware of the fact that an MBR partitioned boot drive isn't ideal for performance - however I want to clone the 860 EVO to the NVMe drive BEFORE I use MBR2GPT or similar to convert to UEFI boot (want a backup copy of Win10 first).
So, I would be very grateful for any pointers regarding M.2 and NVMe config in the BIOS to try and get the drive to be seen.
Thanks in advance!
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