FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT NEED UPDATE INTEL MANAGEMENT ENGINE. Accordingly, there is no need to flash the ME region. You do not have a bios bug. And you just want to flash the BIOS with NVME and updated processor microcodes.
Throughout the 6th series, asus in EZ Flash has no write protection for modified .rom You can simply flash these modified BIOS directly from EZ Flash, like the original
Also, forgive me for my English, I partially use Google Translator, but I check the reverse translation.
"nvme" - "NvmExpressDxe_4" module (bigger sized, but completely optimized for the purpose of this thread) "nvmesmall" - "NvmExpressDxe_Small" module (much smaller sized, but with full functionality) "mod_" - microcode updated, if not, then they did not fit :Ń
And if your board is not in the list, then even a small one did not fit into it âŚ
I updated the MC(updated all CPUID) in my Z68-VGEN3 via UBU and it has bricked my board. Apparently it changes the offsets which causes a no boot situation.
I guess itâs only safe to update 1 MC and remove the rest via UBU.
I have bravely updated my motherboards BIOS with this (P8P67-M Pro).
Can confirm it works, I mean it didnât brick the board or anything. Everything in the bios looks normal. I donât have a PCIe nvme drive (not sure if Iâll ever get one). Just for the microcode (Iâm assuming that means itâs for spectre and meltdown etc?)
to be honest, I just did it for the hell of it, and I like that âhope it donât brickâ excitement kick. nothing like it, when updating a GPU or motherboard bios
Hello, I need Nvme Modded ROM for Asus P8P67 LE (Bios officiel 38.01), When I going to Patch itâs said error 'file size exceed the volume size). Please can someone provide modified Rom for this Motherboard.
P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 flashed and POST fine. Overclock settings and 4 ram DIMMs still showing. Before and after BIOS 3603 x64 (11/09/2012) & ME 8.0.2.1410
Update: Tested Crucial P1 1TB in ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 V2 card (slot #1 of 4). Installed in middle (white) PCIE slot and bottom (dark grey) slot and in either slot the motherboard detects "PATA: SS" drive. Then did UEFI Windows 10 2004 x64 usb install and installer detected drive and installed fine. Boots Win 10 fine from nvme. Installed Crucial Storage Executive Tool which detected the Crucial P1 nvme drive no problem.
Note to anyone else using this "/GEN3"board: The bottom (dark grey) PCIe physical x16 slot really only functions as a PCIe 2.0 @ x4 slot. If you use the middle (white) slot it will make the top (blue) physical x16 slot and middle (white) physical x16 slot both run PCIe 3.0 @ x8. With my Crucial P1 installed in bottom (dark grey) slot it runs PCIe 2.0 @ x4 and showed over 1600MB/sec read and over 1400MB/sec write (SEQ1M Q8T1) which I am happy with and feel is best option to leave full PCIe 3.0 x16 for discreet GPU and allow that GPU more space for cooling.
Thanks to SKyRo and those who helped created this excellent bios.
Board: P8P67-M Pro Already flashed. Is it important at which PCIe port the ssd is plugged in? After installing Windows 10 and reboot there is just a blackscreen with a blinking curser. Its plugged in in a x16 Adapter in the upper slot.
Hello kkloath, can you help me? I have the Asus p8z68 Deluxe, too. You wrote you installed the modded bios. So i tried it view times but it donât work right. I tried it at least simply with the firmware option in the original bios. Now, the nvme will start but everytime i have shut down the pc complete and start the boot partiton with the F8 boot manager. On reebooting the nvme will not found because the pc dosnât shut down complete.
Can you help me with a detailed instruction and the tools you used?
The daily use for my PC is word processing and spreadsheets. I occasionally use video editing software so I was keen to get the best out of my PC in terms of speed that I could, but I could not justify spending much so a decent motherboard upgrade was out of the question. I had heard that NVME was a lot faster than SSD, so I thought I would give it a try. I understand that my motherboard would read and write to NVME but I wanted to be able to boot from it and not just use it for data. I do like a bit of tinkering and I find it satisfying to get this sort of thing done.
Iâm no expert at computing and I generally learn only what I need to in order to achieve something, often leeching off those who do know what theyâre doing. You donât need to be an expert either. If you can get into a DOS box and run DISKPART you should be good to go.
This guide is for those with less time on their hands than I have and want to get the job done without the frustrations that I encountered. There may be other, possibly better, guides out there but I couldnât find any.
If your System disk, (Boot Disk), is formatted MBR style then it will need to be converted to GUID Partition Table or GPT for short. A GPT disk has a main partition for your system and data and a separate drive for booting. When a MBR disk is converted both partitions are created automatically. My boot disk was MBR. If you want to check the style of your drive then you can see the setting in the disk properties, volume in computer management.
There is no guarantee that this will work on your PC and following this guide is done completely at your own risk. Many thanks to those referenced in the guide for the work that they have put into helping me.
Summary of tasks: Obtain the correct modified BIOS file Update the BIOS Apply the correct motherboard settings Make a clone the boot disk and safeguard the original Convert the cloned disk to GPT style partition Check that the drive will boot Clone the converted boot disk onto the NVME drive Install the NVME drive Set the NVME drive as the boot drive in the BIOS
Boot your PC and press Delete during the boot process and youâll enter the BIOS setup. Go into Advanced Mode, select the Tool menu and use EZFlash to update your BIOS. Re-boot your PC and go back into Advanced Mode. Select the Advanced menu, Onboard Devices Configuration. Select the âPCI Express X16_2 slot (Black) bandwidthâ and select the â4,0,0,0 X4âŚâ option. Select the Boot tab Select âPCI ROM Priorityâ to âEFI CompatibleâŚâ option. The next menu item â âOption ROM Messagesâ should be set to âKeep Currentâ. Select âSave and Exitâ from the BIOS and allow the PC to start up.
I used Acronis True Image for Crucial to make a clone of my Samsung Boot disk. Itâs free to use for cloning if you have a Crucial SSD on your system. Other cloning software should be able to do this â I only used Crucial because I had it on my system. This took about 10 minutes but will vary with different systems. At this stage I removed my original boot disk for safe keeping together with any other disks that are not involved in the conversion process. Using the cloned boot drive I re-booted into windows 10 opened a DOS box by typing CMD into Windows search at the bottom left of the screen and chose âRun as Administratorâ.
Your boot disk needs to be of the GPT partition style. You need to know the disk number to convert and if you are in any doubt then use the DISKPART command to confirm. You can read this for further information on DISKPART and MBR2GPT https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsâŚment/mbr-to-gpt Run the following commands in the DOS box â it assumes that your drive is 0 and you need to change it if yours is different. You can check that your disk is ok to convert by running the following command.
mbr2gpt /validate /disk:0 /allowFullO If all is ok then run the command below to convert your disk.
mbr2gpt /convert /disk:0 /allowFullO It wonât take long to complete and should finish with a confirmation that it was successful in a few seconds.
Restart your PC and enter the BIOS settings by pressing DELETE. On the first page drag the drive that you have just converted, itâll have the blue EUIF tag and its name will start âWindows Boot ManagerâŚâ followed by the name of your drive, to the leftmost position. Save and exit the BIOS settings and allow the system to start. Your system should boot using the newly converted drive.
Power off your PC, remove the power cord, open the cabinet, and slot your adaptor/NVME drive into the black PCIe connector. Re-connect the power cord. Re-boot your PC into Windows 10. Using your cloning software clone your boot disk to the MVME drive. When complete re-boot and enter the BIOS by pressing the DELETE button during booting. Select the NVME drive âWindows Boot Manager (Kingston SK25âŚ)â, the make and model of the drive will depend on your NVME drive, and drag it to the leftmost position. Use âSave and Exitâ to exit and re-boot. Your system should now be booting from your NVME drive.
Your SSD boot disk may not appear in Windows Explorer but you should be able to access it through Disk Management in Windows Computer Management if you want to check it. If you wish to clear the SSD and you have trouble doing so then follow the instructions on how to CLEAN the drive here -
I obtained 830MB/S read transfer rates using the CrystalDiskMark testing software using the Black socket and around half that using the blue socket. This compares with 562MB/S read transfer on a Samsung EVO SSD. These results are very satisfying and shows that many older ASUS motherboards shouldnât be written off due to their factored limits. Best of luck.
