My post was at 2 am after hours of sheer desperation. Re- and Re-reading of the linked manual the next day helped.
I am 0% versed in BIOS modification and was afraid I will have to do it somehow anyway. It turned out that Koekieezz’s BIOS mode L2.31A had everything I need (Thank you, @Koekieezz !). I was just skipping the Rufus booting/installation part and some BIOS settings. Had to re-read the manual the 5th time to understand it properly.:)
Now it works like a charm and I am amazed how fast it is. My thanks to all who made this possible!
Also, if somebody has the 2.50 BIOS edition moded with the NVME boot driver, that would be hearthly welcomed, if it can be posted in this forum again.
Well, 2.50 was long available when Koekieezz created his version. If I run versions through an old UBU from '21 there are some differences and I understand why he chose 2.31:
Seems that Asrock put some work into 2.31 beta to make it EFI capable, but 2.50 is just an update to 2.30. There’s no trace of EFI graphics drivers in 2.30 and 2.50. Might be hidden some place where UBU wouldn’t find them but that’s rather unlikely.
Since you’d definitely need EFI boot to use your NVMe disk I’d definitely stay with2.31 beta Koekieezz. In addition to the NVMe mod he got the EFI video drivers (and RST OROM and EFI drivers) updated as a bonus. In addition latest ME version for this generation.
Regarding codes: If you don’t intend to overclock you could update to the latest µcodes for 306A9 and 206A7, but even those aren’t the latest for 2.50. Latest is for 206A7 2F 2019-02-17 and for 306A9 21 2019-02-13
If you don’t intend to overclock you could update to the latest µcodes for 306A9 and 206A7, but even those aren’t the latest for 2.50. Latest is for 206A7 2F 2019-02-17 and for 306A9 21 2019-02-13
Those were the Spectre Meltdown codes, some performance drop which could be mitigated by Retpoline for Ivy Bridge I guess. But this really is academic since they stopped updating these hardware generations long ago!
