PCI M.2 on Fx8350

[JakeJigsaw]

Long story short, trying to turn one of my old builds into a mild gaming computer to have in my living room.

TLDR Version : Skip to the Green Text Below

 

CPU: AMD FX-8350

Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0

Ram 32GB (4x8GB 1600hrz)

 

The Issue:

I wanted to put an M.2 on the machine to try and make it a bit faster as this will strictly be used a Steam Machine in the living room.

Being an old Mobo and such, there is no on board M.2, so I bought this :

 

https://www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-PCIe-Adapter-2230-2280-PA05/dp/B079546NPR

 

 

and installed this hard drive:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-SN550-500GB-NVMe-Internal/dp/B07YFF3JCN/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=WD+Blue+sn550+500gb&qid=1593045473&s=electronics&sr=1-1

(not the best, but ehh)

 

So I slapped it in, and got a message saying it cant see the device.

Plugged in my Win10 Install USB, and went do the install anyway.

Got a message about it being MBR, and not GPT. Got that squared away with a few DiskPart lines.

 

So now, I was able to Format, make partitions, and install windows. It all worked.

Now when I go to boot to it, the bios just says

 

"The current BIOS setting do not fully support the boot device.

Click OK to enter Bios setup

 

Go to Advanced > Boot > CSM Parameters, and adjust the CSM (Compatibility Support Module) settings to enable the boot device"

 

No matter what I play with, I am getting no where.

Again, within the windows installer, it shows all my partitions, and such and in the Disk Part (via CMD) it shows that my disk is set to GPT.

But under BIOS, it wont show my hard drive.

[StaffCorporal]

Do you have the latest BIOS?

[JakeJigsaw]

2 hours ago, StaffCorporal said:

Do you have the latest BIOS?

According to this page on Asus:

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_LE_R20/HelpDesk_Download/

 

the latest is 2701, and I am on 2701.

[StaffCorporal]

Honestly you should have just bought a SATA drive. But it is possible to make it work. Try Googling "asus m5a97 r2.0 pcie boot" 

[JakeJigsaw]

2 hours ago, StaffCorporal said:

Honestly you should have just bought a SATA drive. But it is possible to make it work. Try Googling "asus m5a97 r2.0 pcie boot" 

Mainly bought the M.2 for if this fails, I can get a cheap mobo/cpu that has m.2 on it, but thought I would try  this as the adapter was like $8.

[StaffCorporal]

https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html

 

This is pretty comprehensive I would try the non BIOS modding method first. Since you probably don't have dual or backup BIOS and therefore will brick your board if that fails.