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As the title suggest, this guide will make you able to boot directly an NVMe drive with older motherboard that does not support booting trough NVMe protocol natively. Some preparation and checklist is including (and not limited to): Other PC that will be used to prepare the Bootable clover USB drive - Or you can use your target system that already have OS installed in other drive (SATA SSD/HDD) Motherboard with at least 1 free PCIe slot - having physical PCIe x4 or larger that unoccupied will help, but you can also put the NVMe drive in PCIe x1 slot with some speed penalty Motherboard with USB boot capabilities - Please beware, sometimes SD/MicroSD card reader built inside your laptop may doesn't support boot mode inside the BIOS An PCIe NVMe drive - Make sure it's not a M.2 SATA or M.2 PCIe AHCI SSD! A M.2 M Key to PCIe x4 adapter - for motherboard that only have PCIe x1 slot free, please bought applicable adapter or you can butcher either your adapter or motherboard PCIe slot (NOT RECOMMENDED) An unused USB drive or SD Card/MicroSD with the USB adapter - 2GB or more in capacity with good transfer speed recommended, but you can getaway with smaller drive (at least 128MB or more) Internet connection - For downloading the clover files Tested system: Dell Inspiron 3647 / Vostro 3900 (i3-4160) + Samsung PM891a 512GB NVMe SSD - Windows 10 - UEFI (Used in this guide) Lenovo ThinkPad T430 (i7-3610QM) + Western Digital SN530 256GB SSD - Manjaro 20 KDE Plasma - UEFI Lenovo ThinkPad T400 (C2D P9700) + Western Digital SN530 256GB SSD - Manjaro 20 KDE Plasma - UEFI Asus X453MA (Pentium N3540) + Kingspec NE 2242 128GB SSD - Windows 10 - UEFI ASUS Z8NA-D6C (2x Xeon X5650) + Samsung 960 Evo 256GB - Windows 10 - UEFI Asrock P4i945GC (Pentium 4 550 HT) + Kingspec NE 2242 128GB SSD - Debian 10 XFCE Minimal - Legacy Guide (Windows - Type all command without the quotation mark): Make sure your NVMe drive is recognized in other system, you can do this by booting an OS from officially supported media, and see if partition in the drive is either detected or mounted, or you can launch your OS specific disk drive manager like Windows Disk Management (windows) or lsblk (Linux) and see if the NVMe drive is detected. Download the clover files here - Choose the latest release, in the case of writing this article is CloverV2-5155.zip Prepare your SD/USB drive, make sure you backup your important data before formatting it. launch diskpart, either trough run or windows search or command prompt/Windows Terminal/Powershell, this will prompt windows admin warning, click OK to continue Now type "list disk", and you can identify which drive is the USB drive you mount by see the total capacity (in my case is disk 2) Type "select disk X" (X = your SD/USB disk number, eg. "select disk 2), and type "clean" to delete all partition (WARNING - YOUR DATA WILL BE DELETED) Now open windows Disk Management, and find your SD/USB disk that already been formatted, right click on formatted partition, and select "New simple volume" option For the size, type "512" (in MB; for USB/SD drive capacity more than 512MB), and click next, and select your desired drive letter path (or use default assigned by windows) and click next For filesystem, choose FAT32, with default allocation size, and volume label "clover" for ease of navigation later and click next and finish After your new partition is successfully mounted, extract the zipped clover folder, and go to inside of "CloverV2" folder, and copy the content to your USB drive now inside your USB Drive root folder, copy "NvmExpressDxe.efi" file, located in "/EFI/Clover/drivers/off" folder, to "/EFI/CLOVER/BIOS", "/EFI/CLOVER/UEFI", "/EFI/CLOVER/drivers32uefi", and /EFI/CLOVER/drivers32uefi" folder respectively. Now, back to your USB Drive root folder, go to "/EFI/CLOVER" folder and rename "config-sample.plist" to "config.plist". Edit the "config.plist" file with notepad or other plain text editor (Notepad++ is recommended) Find "<Key>Boot</Key>" line and scroll down a bit and you will find "<Key>Timeout</Key>" line, below that, default value is "<interger>5</interger>", this value represented how many second clover will automatically boot when user input is not detected, you can change it to your desired value, in my case, I put "10" for 10 seconds. Save and close the text editor. Now reboot your PC, and select boot drive to the USB/SD drive (either using boot menu shortcut or set it up manually via BIOS boot order). If you see the clover boot menu, congrats! Now shutdown your PC, plug your NVMe drive (if not already), and try to boot from it. If your NVMe drive doesn't have any OS installed, please install it like usual. Now, after installing either your NVMe drive or installing the OS inside it (or both), you can directly boot to the NVMe drive via the clover boot menu selector! Photos for the guide: Diskpart: Windows Disk Management (in this case clover drive already prepared beforehand): Clover root folder inside the USB/SD drive: Editing the "config.plist" file: System info for the test system (Dell Inspiron 3647/Vostro 3900) using HWInfo: If you have any question regarding this thread, don't afraid to ask down below, Cheers!

Hi people! First time posting here! Hope someone might know how to solve this problem I'm having trouble with an old Asus board K8V-X SE paired with a AMD Sempron, video via a AGP ATI Radeon 9250 (if it get to that part) All of that running off a no-name 450W psu What's happening: Nothing! It seems to turn on, spin up the cooler, but that's it, apart from emmiting a strange click sound from the buzzer once, it does absolutely nothing else. What I already tried: Bios reset Both RAM slots, and cleaning them Another CPU (same model) Plugging in an IDE Hard Drive (IDK why) There was a couple of bloated caps, but I've replaced them And I think that's all Fell free to ask more about the system Obligatory P.S. Spotted any grammar mistakes? Please correct, still improving my English skills

So, I quite new here (Boy I'm sure you get that a lot) and I'd like to ask a few of you with more experience a few questions about my rig. First off, my PC is a Dell Precision T7400. I know it's old, I know I should get something better, but, I don't have the cash to do a full upgrade to the things I would like to have on a PC. My specs are the following: - Dual Xeon E5450s (3.0Ghz Quad Cores, Each) - 16GB of ECC Fully Buffered Memory (DDR2) - A 1TB Western Digital HHD - Two GTX 660s 2GB Graphics Cards (Not in SLI) - Windows 7 Pro (Dual Booted with Windows XP x64 Bit) So this machine is coming up on it's 10th birthday, and It's my main machine. I built it back in the 2014/2015 era, waaay before I found Linus's video about "Cheap 8-Core PCs" for those of you wondering. I use it to make digital art/animation, gaming (Mostly World of Tanks...), and It often takes the jobs of wiping other hard drives for my other computers I normally test on, via a removable HHD caddy on the front, and my main file server. This machine is very stable and very reliable and surprisingly quiet for it's size. I do not want to upgrade to a new OS from the two that I have on there. Some of my ideas (some good, some odd) are the following: - I want to get SOME kind of an SSD for the main boot drive - I would like to try a few of the new Solid State Hybrid Drives (At least two) to use as storage. - Possibly use another SSD completely as Virtual Memory (Mostly for VMs, I also want to test how well it works.) - While the Graphics Cards work great, and I love the 6xx Series, I would like to upgrade them to at least GTX 680s to GTX 980s. (Although AMD Cards are not outta the question) - Maybe push to get the Top Quad Core processors available for the LGA 771 socket? - This machine can (in theory) make use of 128GB of RAM, although from what I've been able to find, I could only reasonably push to 64GB at 800Mhz. Keep in mind, I gotta push this machine's life at least 4 more years...at least as my main machine. After that, it will be a dedicated NAS Server. If you can think of anything I might need or want to change, let me know! Any feedback is welcome!

So im trying to upgrade a very old system a dell optiplex gx520 and wait before you start complaning on why im spending money on this pc, let me tell you that at some time im gonna sell this pc so it has to be able to run something at least, on the mean time here is my problem the pc has one pci (not express) slot at the very bottom and i want to populate it either with a gpu mainly for gaming or deep learning (just ligth stuff) or a wifi card due to its location i dont have easy access to a ethernet connetion, both im gonna take advantage before selling but wich one its more viable to buy you know for resale because the gpu can give you better graphics and the wifi card more flexibility Edit: im gonna change the procesor for something like a pentium or a core 2 duo so by any means i dont spect to run something like crysis