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

Fernando · January 22, 2020, 12:03pm

@plexpc :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
What about inserting the NVMe module into the latest BIOS version and to flash that one?
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

@OzzyFox :
Your issue seems to be BIOS or Intel ME Region related and probably cannot be solved by a BIOS modification done by anyone among our BIOS modding Gurus.
My advice: Contact the ASUS Technical Support, write about your issue and ask for a solution. It may be a good idea not to mention, that the BIOS has been modified.

plexpc · January 22, 2020, 4:39pm

@Fernando :
That doesn’t make any sense to me, nor does it address my issue. I was successfully able to modify the BIOS in this tutorial, but my motherboard does not allow you to override the current BIOS version with the same BIOS version, there are no newer versions of the BIOS available. It gives me a “Security Verification Failed” error when I try to update just the BIOS. NVME has nothing to do with the BIOS being flashed.

Fernando · January 22, 2020, 6:54pm

@plexpc :
Ok, I misunderstood your previous post - forget my advice.
It should be possible to flash a BIOS with the same version number, but with different modules in it.
You probably have to use another flashing tool.

garypooncr · January 23, 2020, 12:17pm

Hello, I have a PM981a 512GB M2 SSD for my Z77X UD5H using BIOS F16j. The bios itself can recognise my ssd in full name and after loading into Windows 10 installer(UEFI/legacy), the installer shows it is only 0MB. Can anyone help me? Thank you very much

PS It shows up on Windows System but I cannot initialised it. NVME controller also shows up on device manager, so I’m wondering what is the problem

GIGABYTE_GA-F2A88XM · January 23, 2020, 5:43pm

It worked also for my system:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H
BIOS: AMI UEFI BIOS
CodeRush’s UEFITool: UEFI Tool (link is in the first post)
NVME DXE: NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs

i’m a bios modding newbee but the guide was very clear. After i flashed the bios i removed all other harddrives and installed W10 on my m.2 Intel p660 ssd. I have a QNINE PCIe adapter in the upper PCIe 16x slot.
Thanks for the guide!!!

DocGloumy · January 24, 2020, 12:10am

Hello all,
I’m trying tu add nvme support on my Gigabyte Z87M-D3H with no success,

I have download the last F11 bios an added the NvmExpressDxe_Small.ffs but the hard drive is not recognized under unraid
I wanted to try an older version of the bios but once in the bios it is not possible to flash an F11 bios with an older F10 bios…
SATA mode selection is in AHCI and I’ve cheched the modified bios, it contains well the NvmExpressDxe_Small line.

Anyone got a F11 modified bios for Z87M-D3H ?

Thanks !

Fernando · January 24, 2020, 12:07pm

@DocGloumy :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

What means, that the hard drive isn’t recognized? Do you see a device named "PATA" or PATA SS:" within the BOOT section of the BIOS?
If not, is the NVMe SSD properly connected via M.2>PCIe adapter with a suitable PCIe slot?
If you are unsure regarding the result of your BIOS modification, please attach the original and your modded BIOS as *.ZIP archive. Then we will do a look into them both.

Do you really believe, that such person will find and read your post on page 356 of this voluminous thread?
By the way: The Forum member Schots has the same mainboard as you and succeeded with the BIOS F10 (look >here<). The BIOS modification will work with the BIOS F11 as well.

Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

DocGloumy · January 24, 2020, 12:35pm

@Fernando :
Yes thanks
I found it but the bios does not want of an older version

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing to the author (to save space)

Fernando · January 24, 2020, 1:15pm

@DocGloumy : Please answer my questions.

DocGloumy · January 24, 2020, 5:58pm

Effectively, no hard drive in the boot section (the system does not have any drives excepted the unraid usb key and the m2 pcie card)
And the hard drive is mounted on a asus adapter m2 to pcie 4x on the pcie4x slot of the motherboard.

I’ve put the modified bios in attached files

biosf11modified3.zip (5.77 MB)

DocGloumy · January 25, 2020, 12:27pm

Sorry I’ve seen the bios was not attached, I have edited to add

Fernando · January 25, 2020, 12:44pm

@DocGloumy :
Your modded BIOS looks to be ok.
Questions:
1. Which name did you give your modded BIOS?
2. How did you flash it (from within the OS or from within the BIOS)?
3. Which flashing tool did you use?
4. What makes you sure, that the BIOS has been successfully flashed?

DocGloumy · January 25, 2020, 1:53pm

@Fernando :
1. I give the same name of the original bios "Z87MD3H.F11"
2./3. I flash it with QRUN directly into the bios
4. the pc restart automatically after the flash process, I have just seen the version of my bios was passed from F9 to F11

To be sure I have also test with another car and m2 drive
Thanks for help Fernando

Fernando · January 25, 2020, 2:04pm

@DocGloumy :
Thanks for your answers.
Additional question:
Which BIOS settings have you chosen within the BIOS regarding CSM, "Secure Boot", "Fast Boot" and the support of Legacy/UEFI Option ROM modules?

Dabman · January 25, 2020, 2:40pm

I found a bit time to try it, but without any good results:

±--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AMI Firmware Update Utility v3.04.03 |
| Copyright (C)2012 American Megatrends Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
±--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Reading flash … done
Secure Flash enabled, recalculate ROM size with signature…
- FFS checksums … ok
4 - Error: ROM file ROMID is not compatible with existing BIOS ROMID.

I tried to turn off secure boot but same issue.
Windows 10 in AHCI mode on machine.
Any idea?

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded parts of the quoted posts removed, AFUWIN protocol put into a "spoiler" (to save space) and post re-formatted for better readability/understanding

DocGloumy · January 25, 2020, 2:59pm

@Fernando :
CSM, >CSM support : Always
"Secure Boot" > Enabled, I try with disabled but same
Secure Boot mod : Standard
"Fast Boot" > It’s disabled
support of Legacy/UEFI :
- Boot mode selection : UEFI and Legacy
- Storage boot option Control : UEFI First
- Other PCI Deviace ROM Priority : UEFI OpROM

Fernando · January 25, 2020, 3:37pm

@Dabman :
The AFUWin protocol verifies, that you cannot get a modded BIOS successfully flashed by using the AMI AFUWin tool.
Please look into the start post of >this< thread for a better flashing method and ask there for help.

@Dabman :
If you want to get an NVMe SSD bootable, you have to set the “Secure Boot” BIOS setting to “DISABLED”.
By the way: Attached is the F11 BIOS for your mainbord, where I have integrated the complete NvmExpressDxe_4 module. Feel free to flash it at own risk. Maybe it will help to solve your problem.

Z87MD3Hmodbyfern.rar (5.66 MB)

DocGloumy · January 25, 2020, 4:35pm

Thanks I’m trying

Knogle · January 25, 2020, 4:52pm

Ahoy, is there a way to pay someone to perform this changes?
I got a Supermicro X10SRL-F and would like to add support for NVMe SSDs to be able to boot from them, using PCIe x4 → M.2 Adapter card.

DocGloumy · January 25, 2020, 5:22pm

@Fernando :
I’ve try to flash with your bios, flash is ok but for the hard drive, no success