NVMe on Intel Server Board

[Anakumulos]

Recently, I have begun building a new 24-bay hot-swap storage server. In the meantime, I was going to use it to replace my partner's failing laptop that they use for digital art (Tablet). With prices having dropped so much, its actually cheaper for me to purchase a Patriot Blaze 128GB NVMe drive than it is to purchase a regular SATA SSD.

 

The only issue, Im currently running this all on an Intel S5520HC Server board with 2 Xeon E5645 (Hex Core @ 2.40Ghz) CPUs and 32GB of RAM.

 

With the drive on a riser board and plugged in, my Windows installer can see it, but I have no way to get the BIOS to see it.

 

Does anyone know of a workaround of some kind so that way these wonderful drives can be used on this older equipment?

 

Thanks for any help you all can provide.

[Electronics Wizardy]

There is no easy way to fix there. Its possible to mod the bios on some boards, but thats not easy.

 

You can also make a usb stick with the bootloader, but thats a pain in windows.

 

Can you use a cheap hdd for now?

[leadeater]

It'll work just fine as long as you don't boot from it, just use a SATA device for the OS.