BigMik
December 5, 2023, 9:38pm
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Hello everyone, sorry for my English.
I would like to ask if anyone can enable PCIe bifurcation in the bios of an Asrock X79 Extreme4-M , I managed to activate the boot from nvme, but the bifurcation just can’t.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/X79%20Extreme4-M/index.it.asp#BIOS
thanks for support
Greetings
Welcome to the forum, search the right “term” in the search box, plenty of guides and info to do it.
Else wait for a user offer.
BigMik
December 6, 2023, 8:26am
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Hello and thanks, I followed these guides,
Adding Bifurcation Support For ASUS X79 in UEFI BIOS Menu Primarily for use with riser cards that split PCIe slots into multiples without a PLX chip To avoid the cost of a PLX Riser card/PLX Multi M.2 (RAID) For this guide I used a P9X79 Motherboard, UEFI BIOS 4701 , and a Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card some variables may be different on other boards. Warnings: Here be dragons. Bifurcation is tested with an a Hyper M.2 x16 Card with 2 Samsung 500GB 970 EVO’s installed on a x8 slot bifurcated to x4x…
Hi i’m new on this forum, nice to meet you[image] Recently i have updated my old pc with the asus hyper v2 card, with your guide i have successfull modded the bios file to support nvme boot. All is working great[image] Due to the specs of the motherboard, it supports 4 pcie@x16 thanks to the 2 plx switch. inside the bios file i have founded an explict referiment to the pcie bifurcation and splitting system… is here but not showed in bios settings.
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This is the only things show…
but I was unable to activate the items in the menu, I will keep trying hoping not to break the mobo
Thank you