Hello all,
I flashed the NVME driver bios to allow booting for NVMe on Asus Rampage IV Extreme.
1 x Adaptor card + NVME
1 x Adaptor card + NVME
1 x GPU
3 x normal HDD
1 x display via Displayport.
I disconnected all drives, installed windows and everything worked fine except for one issue.
When I restart the machine via windows, a soft reboot, it hangs just after the bios page with a black screen. Sometimes it flashes a lighter colour than black and then goes back to black. if I press the hardware reset switch, it reboots and then boots into windows normally.
Reading around the forums I can see a few other posts detailing something similar happening but no solution.
Device manager shows no warnings.
Motherboard shows Intel Management Engine 8.1 Build 1471, Hot fix 51.
I have tried to reinstall the IME, move the NVME to a different slot, cleaned everything, disconnected, reconnected and no change.
I also replaced the CMOS Battery.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Any ideas?
This only occurred after the BIOS flash.
Edit: I think it was the third Bios.
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ASUS ROG Rampage IV X79 Owners Club - R4E.CAP did not work
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Second Winraid Bios did not work but there was no identification of the Bios. [OFFER] Asus Rampage IV Extreme - Nvme Bios mod (4901) - #6 by Plop
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Third Winraid worked via USB Flash
I had an issue using the provided CAP in OPs post. I tried with many different sticks formatted many different ways, using Diskpart and Windows formatting. None of them worked. I took the time to create my own for RIVE (Rampage IV Extreme) by dropping the NVME driver into a freshly downloaded (ASUS Website) rev4901 bios. I will attach it here for anyone that wants to try this one (in case OPs doesn’t work for you too).
EDIT Unable to upload because of file size limit. I have uploaded it to the following:
***EDIT EDIT *** Unable to upload my post because of a lack of posts on this forum (literally registered an account an hour ago to post this to be fair). I have attached a text document that contains many of the same steps plus a MEGAUPLOAD link.
- Run command prompt as Administrator
- Type DISKPART
- Plug in your USB drive. Note the size of the device (which is likely much smaller than your hard drives). WARNING >> THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON THE USB DRIVE
- Type LIST DISK
- Locate your USB thumb drive. Remember the drive number
- Make sure you have selected the right device.
- Type SELECT DISK xxxxxxx where xxxxxxx is the drive number from step 5
- Type CLEAN
- Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
- Type ASSIGN LETTER=yyyyyyy where yyyyyyy is a drive letter you aren’t currently using
- Transfer the file attached here to the root of the drive (note I kept it lower case, this worked fine for me)
- Plug into white USB port on back of motherboard
- Press and hold the appropriate ROG Connect key until it blinks a few times
- Wait a while until it is done. The ROG Connect key will slowly blink. If the USB has a light to indicate disk read/write, it will blink too.
RIVE NVME BIOS.txt (1.55 KB)
Flashing procedure:
USB fat 32 drive.
Machine off all drives physically disconnected except NVME drive
ROG Button flashed 5 times as if reading the USB.
Waited until no flashing ROG Button.
Waited another 5 minutes to be safe.
Disconnect power. Wait 1 minute.
Connect power, reboot machine.
Install windows.
Crucial P3 Plus 1tb NVME
glotrends PCIe M.2 Adapte for M.2 SSD, NVMe PCIe 4.0
PCIE Slot 6.