[Offer] ASUS CrossHair V Formula Z MOD bios 2201

All of us remaining here appreciate everything that is done. Thank you for the Mods and the advice.

Thank you, Metin34, for your info. Can you explain Step 1…If you are using Phoenix48’s modified bios .CAP file directly onto a USB stick, what do you need Rufus for?

Thanks again.

@StillFXer

Rufus is not needed to flash a Bios update. I think he used Rufus simply as a tool to format his USB key in FAT32.

Little advice on this forum: Take note that if you want the best chance to get an answer from him, you should start your post with @Metin34 just like i did with you. When you start a post like that, the person gets directly notified and have a better chance to see your post and answer you.

@Phoenix48

Thank you for the info - that was my first post on this site. I an honoured to be answered by the one who has developed this mod (and yes, of course, Stickmod, Fernando, and others, to be sure). I have made a donation to you for all your amazing work done on this thread. I have an ASUS Formula-Z with FX9590 that still works great and I’m about to add a 970 EVO Plus with PCI-E adapter. I have been reading this thread on and off for a few years and next week I am taking a few days off to finally add it. Hopefully, with your v16 package, I will have Windows 10 on it and working successfully. Many thanks.

@Phoenix48

I have just successfully added a Samsung 970 EVO plus (mounted on Asus Hyper PCIE Adapter board) to my system (Asus Formula-Z with FX99590), and installed Windows 10 on it, and it is running beautifully. I used the modded bias v16 from Phoenix48, which I loaded with Flashback. First I loaded the Asus bios 2201. It worked fine. Then I updated the bios with modded bios v16 and ran the computer to make sure everything was running normally. Then I added the drive. I did not change anything in the bios - Windows Boot Manager was already showing and so was the drive. It’s booting much faster, so I am very pleased and once again thanks to all who contributed to this effort. It went so smoothly and quickly I was amazed.

Alas, I am having one problem: I have 2 SATA Samsung 850 Pro SSD drives, one was my previous boot drive with Windows 10 on it, and one was for data. Those 2 drives are not showing up at all. I’m not seeing them listed in Explorer or Disk Management, and I can’t find them in the bios either? I also have a 3rd older drive - a Western Digital HDD - connected via SATA, that is showing up fine. How do I get my SSD’s back? Do I need the Samsung driver? Other than doing all the Windows 10 updates, I have no other programs or apps loaded yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

@StillFXer

Maybe those drives are connected to the AsMedia controller instead of the AMD controller. Verify that the AsMedia controller is enabled in the Bios. That would explain why they don’t show up there. And verify that you have the latest driver for your AsMedia controller installed in Windows. That may also help.

@Phoenix48

I moved all the other drives (2 SSD, 1 Optical, and 1 HDD - all SATA connected) yesterday. They had been in the 4 lower sockets (2, 4, 5, 6 - that’s 2 AMD and 2 ASMedia); I moved them up to 1, 2, 3, 4 - all AMD. The Optical and the HDD disc, also connected through SATA, are showing up, but still not the Samsung SSD’s. So I don’t think it’s a controller setting, but I will check. Also note that when I did the clean Win 10 install onto the NVMe, I purposely disconnected the other drives. So the 2 SSD and the HDD were disconnected. Upon reconnecting them, the HDD came back, but not the SSD’s. I presume Win 10 loads all drivers regardless of what’s connected? I will work on this over the next few days as time permits, and follow up. Thanks again.

öncelikle merhaba sorun aslında ortak bios yüklemesi ve sürekli hata vermesi yükllemege calıştıgımda hata veriyo biraz yazılanları okudum şimdide pc nin arkasındaki girişten bios u yüklemeyi deniyicem umarım olur

@alyqhasan

Thank you for your response. I have used a computer translator.

Can you tell me what changes in the bios you think are needed?

kusura bakma sistemi yeniden yüklemem gerekti v15 bios u yükledim ve gayet başarılı bi şekilde calıştı eski diskimi depolama olarak ayarladım yeni diskim kinston a2000 fazla iyi sayılmaz ama işimi fazlasıyla görüyo gercekten cok teşekkür ederim bu inanılmaz derecede güzel bir calışma teşekkürler uzun bir zaman sistem yenilememe gerek kalmadı

herkesin yapmk istedigi biosun içerisindeki ez yi kullanarak bios yüklemek istemeleri ama modlu oldugu için güvenlik bariyerine takıldıgından dolayı sanki olmuyomuş gibi oluyo ama pc arka panelinde yer alan bios yükleme için ayrılmış olan usb kullanıldıgında hiç hataya takılmadan yükleniyo ve istenildigi gibi nvme m2 calışıyo ve sistemi bu disk üzerinden artık kullana biliyosun cidden bu iş üzerinde calışan herkese cok teşekkür ederim

benim sistem
fx8350
asus rx 580 8gb oc
850wat tam modüler pover
kinston 4*8 32 gb 2400 mhz ram
corsaır h100i platınyum 240 sıvı sogutma
asus crosshair v formula z bios 2201 v15
toshıba tr200 480gb depolama
kinton a2000 500gb nvme m2 sitem için
ve şuan aktif ve sorunsuz bir şekilde calışıyo SONSUZ TEŞEKKÜRLER

@Phoenix48

Success!! Recap: My new 970 EVO Plus is mounted on an Asus Hyper PCIe adapter card, plugged into PCIe slot #3, and is running Windows 10 with my Asus Formula-Z. But my other disks were no longer showing up. In trying to get my older storage disks active again, at one point I noticed in Disk Management that the booted drive was my older Samsung 850 SSD with Windows still on it, not my new 970 EVO Plus (boot order in bios?). I disconnected all drives except the new 970 EVO Plus, to make sure my new windows 10 install was still working properly. I rebooted, and saw that it was. While monitoring Disk Management and Explorer, I reconnected the first Samsung 850 SSD - it showed up this time. I now wanted to get rid of this “other” copy of Windows on it. Since I want to freshly reinstall all my programs on the new 970 EVO Plus, I had no use for the programs on the 970 EVO Plus, so I did not clone them. To wipe it clean I tried a reformat, but that didn’t work. The protected sections of the disk would not delete. I found this Youtube video very helpful in achieving this, as I did not know how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d4SmrU9gf4, How to Format a Hard Drive & Delete Recovery Partitions | Windows 10 | Diskpart Delete Partition.

The former boot drive was now wiped clean and ready for storage or any other use. I rebooted and now the 970 EVO Plus with Windows, and the older, cleaned 850 Pro SSD were showing up properly. With the computer still on and running, one by one I added back my other SATA storage drive, and my SATA BD drive. They all showed up properly now. I rebooted and everything is working beautifully. My new read and write speeds are approx. 1550 and 1450, about triple of what they were before. I believe that is about what I had read further back in this thread, due to Formula-z’s PCIe-2 limitation. I am very satisfied.

Conclusion: If you have an Asus Formula-z motherboard, and you want to get an NVMe m.2 drive to boot Windows, DO THIS MOD!! It works! Be sure to use the bios FLASHBACK on the rear of the motherboard - do NOT use EZFlash! The authors of this mod have done excellent work to make this possible, and with Phoenix48’s bios mod (I used v16), it’s practically Plug-and-Play!! Thanks again, to all!

ASUS Formula-Z motherboard
AMD FX9590 CPU with Noctua NH-D15 cooler
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 2133 CL9 memory
ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING video card
SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus NVMe m.2 1TB SSD Mounted on ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 adapter
SAMSUNG 850 Pro 250GB SSD (2)
WESTERN DIGITAL (good old) WD Black WD1003FZEX 1TB 7200 RPM HHD
SILVERSTONE ST-1000P power supply

I guess this is the end for our CPU’s. FX CPU’s are not supported in the new Windows 11 unless a miracle occurs. This show in a message in my updates.

@MailmanMike

Are you serious?!? Why would they do that? Sounds like they’d like to force everyone to buy a new CPU. Has a new version of windows ever required a new CPU before? I mean, sure, it may have run slow, but to not even work?!?

Its all speculated info…its too soon but here u go:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows…-amd-processors
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows…ntel-processors

Windows 10 21h1
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows…-amd-processors

TPM now can be 1.2
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows…ity/windows-11/

@MailmanMike
@StillFXer

I couldn’t believe my eyes. I had to take a look by myself. It really seems to be true.

Microsoft always screw something up big time at each new Windows since Windows 8.

At Windows 8, it was the famous missing start button… … … (Let it sink it again in your heads) It was like selling a brand new car without a steering wheel. No way to drive it. Big thumbs up…

At Windows 10, it was the half made apps and the wonderfull Cortana… And not mentioning the half-baked Edge. At least, it was not as critical as the Start button.

But now they really have outdone themselves with Windows 11, it is not just one screw up but at least 4…:
- No AMD FX processors. This makes no sense at all.
- No sense either: No Intel i7-980X and the likes even if they are still everywhere. (By the way, they are still everywhere for a good reason! The 990X is the last good CPU Intel made even to this day. Every CPU since has to be delided to make it last.)
- Requires TPM 2.0. Who wants that? Even less requires it to run Windows. Any TPM, even TPM 1.2 is not required at all. The best analogy is the TPMS sensors on a car, it is not required at all for the car to run. To force it makes no sense at all.
- Require Secure Boot. Again, who wants that?And again, even less requires it. Putting it off in the Bios is the first thing that many peoples do. Now they force peoples to use it with all the problems that comes with it.

- If it is not enough, even the requirement of a DX 12 compatible graphic card could be brought to judgment. DX11 as minimum would have been more reasonable.

The hope is that the minimum specs evolve and that they add what is missing and remove what is not needed when they see what people are thinking and saying about that. Just like what happened with the old Start button…

I disabled CSM and the TPM issue was gone when running the PC Health Check setup. The remaining compatibility issue was limited to CPU. I did not add a TPM module to my System for it to pass. Hopefully the CPU gets a final ok for Windows 11 and we should be good.

Interesting news folks. I am a Windows insider Dev channel. What I suggested above may be the key. I just got the 11 preview in my updates. I did not add a TPM module or deviate in any way from the great Bios updates we receive. Update: New message in updates telling me I will continue to receive updates until general release at such point they suggest a clean install back to 10. - that part is in red

I am running crossfire v formula z, with AMD FX 9590, and did the manual options from this site’s version:
https : // gadgetstouse.com/blog/2021/07/01/install-windows-11-on-unsupported-devices/

Modded reg win update ring, added the TPM bypass reg, and things were smooth from there. Still get the “have to go back to 10 when 11 goes main” message as well, which is because of the CPU. Anything prior to 8th gen, aka 7gen and older and AMD equivalent just not going to be stable supported by windows on 11… Bit of a bummer to have that early of cut off, but from my understanding it’s so they can say windows 11 is the MOST SECURE OS ever, and compared to other OSs it’s damn close as secure as say MacOS or ChromeOS, because now there isn’t a possibility of a machine being on a intel breached chip. I forget which breach insecurity it was called, but the chip level one that was fixed with 8th gen.