[HowTo] Get full NVMe Support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS

@Lari
You must not forget, that your mainboard natively doesn’t support booting off an NVMe SSD at all.
My advice: Take a backup of your important data and retry a clean installation of the OS according “Step 4” of my Guide.

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Update:
I have just decided to try unpluging all SATA drives (had 5). It booted normaly, I was able to install latest updates without issues onto Win 10 on NVME - looks stable so far. I assume one of my older SATA drives started misbehaving somehow which affected the boot from NVME.

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@Lari:
Thanks for your update, which verifies, that the “Windows Boot Manager” of your NVMe was not the reason for your problem.
So you will be able to solve your boot problem by finding out and removing the faulty SATA drive.

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Can anyone help me with modded bios for Supermicro X10DRi-T to boot from NVMe? I saw a lot of links and HowTo but it is very confusing for me, as I am old. I have the latest 3.4a bios for this motherboard. Thanks in advance.

Can someone double check this modded bios for my Supermicro X10DRi-T. Also, can I use IPMI to flash the bios here?

X10DRI1.816.zip (4.4 MB)

@servernoob
Seems correctly inserted in the right volume and original pad-files are in place as the original one.
Using IPMI to flash i can’t answer that, as i don’t have/had such boards to test its feature regarding mod files and flash them. You may wait for a SuperMicro board user.
Before flashing attempts, please consider making backups using any methods avaiable to you. Good luck.

Thought I would try and flash the unmodded bios first, ended up bricking the system. VGA now not picking up anything, it was restarting every few seconds, I reset CMOS and it powers on but does not have VGA or boot to anything.

The official SuperMicro 3.4a bios file? By USB DOS/EFI should be the correct method.
Read the board documents for proper jumper/recover methods.

Appendix C: UEFI BIOS Recovery
C-3 To Recover the Main BIOS Block Using a USB Attached Device

EDIT: Kinda strange behaviour on an official bios update…not even you had the chance to try the mod file…tell me, you didn’t read any instructions and you tried the update also by IPMI instead of regular bios update method?
I can’t help you more on this “official” recover, must be a current SuperMicro board user
Final resource…an SPI IC programmer.

Thanks for the reply. I checked it out and I am not able to get video to work, so I can’t read anything on the screen. All I have access to is the IPMI to connect to the server from another computer, but still will give me errors when I try to load the bios that way, and only firmware is able to safely upgrade from IPMI.

From SuperMicro’s manual for your board (pg. 58):

Manufacturer Mode Select
Close pins 2 and 3 of Jumper JPME2 to 
bypass SPI flash security and force the 
system to operate in the Manufacturer 
mode, ***which will allow the user to flash 
the system firmware from a host server 
for system setting modifications***.

Let me know if this helps @servernoob

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[[Request] NVMe 2 SSD BIOS modification via x16 adapter card to install Windows 10. The motherboard is H81H3-M4(V1.0A) of elite group.
This is the link.
https://www.ecs.com.tw/es/Product/Motherboard/H81H3-M4/download

curious if anyone has a link to a modded bios for added nvme boot support for a Gigabyte Z87M-D3H? if not i will try the method above but as its my first time attempting a bios mod it would be a daunting task lol
Thank you in advance!
Specs:
Gigabyte Z87M-D3H
i7 4790k
ripjaws 32gb 1600mhz
evga GTX 1070ti
thermaltake 700w PSU
500gb Kingston Sata SSD
1TB Fikwot Pcie 3.0 Nvme

@jeik
Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
This is an English language Forum. Please translate you post.
Thanks!

@ScumLord
This thread has been designed for users, who want to do the required BIOS modification themselves.
If you want want to get an already NVMe modded BIOS for your specific mainboard, you should use the Forum’s search box or start a new “BIOS Modding Requests” thread.

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unfortunately almost every link i find pertaining to the Gigabyte Z87M-D3H has either expired or doesnt exist anymore. as it is my first time modding any bios ill begin with reading over the whole process you have explained above in the first series of posts to the thread and take it step by step! ill reach out if i have any issues.

Ok, if you should have any problem, we will try to help you.

is it possible to make Bitlocker with TPM (v1.2) working with this configuration? I’m getting communication error with the BIOS, when trying to enable bitlocker.

If I’m booting up the same machine with regular SATA drive, Bitlocker working fine.

Any suggestions?

@sha-2
Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
The insertion of an NVMe EFI module into a BIOS without native NVMe support gives the user the ability to boot off an NVMe SSD and to use it as system drive, but all other NVMe features are only available with a BIOS, which natively offers full NVMe support.

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Thank you.

Bitlocker with TPM encryption depends on the NVMe features?

If I would use the Clover-EFI bootloader method, will Bitlocker work with TPM?

Thanks

@sha-2
I am not an expert regarding the bitlocker options and dependencies.

Since these questions have not much to do with the topic of this thread, you should better ask them within one of the “BIOS Modding” Forum Categories.