• Adds option for improved M.2 S3/S4 compatibility with some devices. (Please note when this option is enabled BClock will be limited to 100MHz and 2800MHz+ memory is not supported.)

• Download the correct .zip file below for your motherboard:

• First go into your BIOS and load defaults, save and exit
• Close all open programs.
• Go into the folder where you unzipped this package and update.bat
• Press Y to start the flash process
• DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE FLASH PROCESS
• After the flashing is finished, the system will automatically shut down. Then power on again and go into BIOS to setup.
• NOTE: If flash box immediately closes after flash attempt, the flash may need to be ran from a CMD prompt with administrator privileges or DOS version.

• Extract the contents of .zip file to USB flash drive (must be formatted as FAT32)
• Reboot the machine and go into the system BIOS

• From the BIOS, navigate to the Save & Exit tab and open "Select BIOS File."
• Select the .bin file you wish to flash.

GT_EVGA

kduvernay
Two questions please... Why do bios defaults have the m2 slot disabled? 
 

Yeah EVGA bios is pretty poor in comparison to other manufacturers. It's about as poor as their customer service :(

But in answer to your first question I would guess it's because as enabling the M.2 slot disables the 3rd PCI-E slot, EVGA thought more people would be using the pcie slot than the M.2 slot so prefered to have the pcie enabled over the M.2 slot by default.

That's my guess anyway.

yllanos

EVGA_JacobF
BIOS 1.01 Updates

• Adds option for improved M.2 S3/S4 compatibility with some devices. (Please note when this option is enabled BClock will be limited to 100MHz and 2800MHz+ memory is not supported.)

  

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Windows Installation

• Download the correct .zip file below for your motherboard:

       

• First go into your BIOS and load defaults, save and exit
• Close all open programs.
• Go into the folder where you unzipped this package and update.bat
• Press Y to start the flash process
• DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RESET DURING THE FLASH PROCESS
• After the flashing is finished, the system will automatically shut down. Then power on again and go into BIOS to setup.
• NOTE: If flash box immediately closes after flash attempt, the flash may need to be ran from a CMD prompt with administrator privileges or DOS version.

  
BIOS Installation

• Extract the contents of .zip file to USB flash drive (must be formatted as FAT32)
• Reboot the machine and go into the system BIOS

• From the BIOS, navigate to the Save & Exit tab and open "Select BIOS File."
• Select the .bin file you wish to flash.

 
Hi Jacob.
 
I got an EVGA Micro 2 and I'm having an issue.
 
I'm trying to use a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB M.2 (MZ-N5E500BW) but it is not working.  It is not appearing on list of drives or detected by BIOS. Currently I have connneted the SSD and two mechanical drives.  Mechanical drives get detected without an issue.  For the SSD, I already enabled the M.2 port and then activated the option to improve M.2 compatibility.
 
 
 I've tried with BIOS version 1.01 and 1.02, and nothing. Also tried using legacy and UEFI mode, still not working.
 
 
Please help!
 
 

GT_EVGA
Yeah EVGA bios is pretty poor in comparison to other manufacturers. It's about as poor as their customer service :(

JAC250483

kduvernay

Yeah this crap is going back tomorrow... What a waste of $235.00 and 8+ hours of screwing with it. I've never seen a bios sooo hosed! Change the mem to XMP and it changes the multiplier to 38 (5930K). Change BCLK and it changes the multiplier again. I have multiple UEFI boot drives and the only one it see's is Windoze, have to boot into a shell and manually add the others. Make minor changes in bios like Fan Speed control, save and reboot and it corrupts the bios, can't be fixed their cmos reset you have reload the bios. I only bought this board because I wanted the faster m.2 pci-e, I was afraid this was going to happen, my mistake!   

I'm experiencing the same issues.
 
Plus on top of that, UNLESS you have s3/s4 compatibility enabled, if you try and cold boot with an m.2 ssd windows doesn't start and just keeps boot looping into the bios.
 
The reason I'm not keen on enabling the s3/s4 compatibility is because then it limits your ram frequency to below 2800MHz, and locks the bclk.. Other motherboards do NOT do that.
 
I would really appreciate some input from EVGA on this, is this likely to change? or is it pretty much how things are due to a physical limitation of the board?.
 
If it is then I'm just going to take the loss and sell the motherboard and I'll go back to Asus. I have 3200MHz ram that I can't even use to their full potential with an m.2. I'm forced to either run stock spd at 2133MHz, or manually enter timings and perhaps run at 2666Mhz.
 
Add to that the fact that any monitoring software (except eleet) reports the wrong bclk frequencys, voltages etc and it's not been a good experience so far.