The adaptor must have its on Bi-Furcation PCIe lane chipset or a motherboard with it, you should bougth 2 independent adaptors.
Did you read the damm product desciption?
Now buy 2 adaptors and one will be used a Boot drive and the other will be present in Windows OS as regular storage drive.
Dont worry your not the first “fool” that wants a Ferrari but has a Seat. Cheers.
EDIT: Keep in mind that, PCIex16_1 and 2 will be split to 3.0x8 if using GPU and PCIe NVMe adaptor, also the 3rd x16 slot will work only @ PCIe2.0 x2
Common on older chipsets, the pcie lanes will be divided, read your motherboard manual page6… this is the spec design from the Intel Z87 chipset.
If you have a dedicated GPU 3.0x16 on Slot PCIex16_1 and put something else on 2 the lane will be split to 3.0 x8/x8.
So your dedicated GPU will work only @ 3.0x8 instead of the single card 3.0x16, so theoretical…yes there’s a loss of performance but depends of the user scenario.
Can someone that has completed this update upload their nvme supported bios as z87-a.cap file?
I am trying to follow the steps to complete it myself but I am stuck at the step to circumvent the ASUS BIOS protection (detected and published [>here< ]
The NVMe_UEFI_MOD.zip link at that site no longer works. Thanks
What applies to me is thread 5, I am using the AMI tool AFUWIM… I don’t believe I need the step by ValkyrieStar, if I do the link doesn’t work anymore at his site.
Maybe where I am going wrong is that I don’t understand the point of flashing the original CAP BIOS in step 2. I have performed that step successfully, but what does that accomplish when in step 3, it says to replace the original BIOS with the modded one with a .ROM format. I presume by “modded one” we a referring to the file that you modded at the beginning of this thread. If I have to mod your modded ROM, those instructions are not clear to me.
I am trying, I am not looking for an easy answer, but I am not getting it. Thanks much, great forum, lots of fun!
So yes, the follow up is to download the modded Z87A.ROM and flash using method 3 in the post cited above.
Presumably, you are going to buy an PCIe adapter & mount an M.2 SSD drive to take advantage of the the mod. Otherwise, it would be a pointless exercise.
The fun for me would be successfully updating the BIOS in my rather old Z87A board to accept the PCIe adapter and M2.SSD drive which I have yet to purchase. But since I can’t figure what I am doing wrong, I am just banging my head against the wall.
Yes, yes, that is exactly what I did. And both steps complete with no issues or errors. But when I shutdown/restart the system, the BIOS complains immediately that I need to restore. There is no option to proceed, I am forced to restore. I guess it is something unique about my system I will try again later. Thanks for your help.
“A note for other users though: if AFUWIN fails for you for some reason, the method of using AI Suite’s EZ Update as described by @Wishbringer worked for me. (Well, I assume it did, since InSpectre now lists my device as protected).”
Thanks. I will look at that as well. If I do get it working will it show a different BIOS version or date? If not, will there be some other way that I can verify the new firmware has in place?
Is the microcode version listed in the CPU pane on the left of HWINFO? If so, I do see a MCU of 28.
I had some success last night where upon reboot the BIOS presented two buttons, one to restore firmware, and a 2nd new button to go to Setup (I chose setup). So, I think I might be good, I have the M.2 drive and PCIe adapter on order, so fingers crossed.
