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Yet another question.
I can't see any option in the bios to set an M2 SSD as the boot device. any ideas ?
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Clockwork22
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Managed to get this working was an option in a sub menu, so hopefully all ok now.
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Which SSD did you go for?
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Clockwork22
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I went with a Plextor M6E M.2 just the 128Gb one as it's just a boot drive, I use 4 other SSD for storage etc.
Drive works fine, and seems a little faster that the Sata connected ones.
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Thanks, just out of curiosity, are you running windows 7 or 8.1? Would you mind running a couple of benches? Mainly crystalmark and as-ssd to it?
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C-Mark is 706 Read 331 Write
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astramonti
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Nice reads, writes are low. What about the 4k? Thanks for that, I am in the market for buying one too :)
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I have this drive, the 256GB version, and the x99 Classy board. Seems that something is going on with it that causes system hangs and eventually BSOD.
Did you do anything to prepare the drive for Windows or anything?
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No prep, in fact all I did was copy a windows backup onto the drive, not a fresh install, and the backup was from my Asus X79 setup.
Might not be the drive thats causing your problem.
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Currently there is limited support for M.2 as a boot drive on the x99 boards, and most will not work. They should work fine as a storage drive though. Unfortunately we don't have a list of m.2 drives that work as a boot drive at the moment, however they are working on that issue and there will be a future BIOS update that addresses it and adds support for booting from m.2.
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hello
juste drive M2 in pcie mode
samsung XP941 serie
and plextor 6ie pcie mode exist in sata M2 port
I not in home to verify asrock have added to use pcie or sata mode on port M2 , same on Msata or Mpcie port
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Currently there is limited support for M.2 as a boot drive on the x99 boards, and most will not work. They should work fine as a storage drive though. Unfortunately we don't have a list of m.2 drives that work as a boot drive at the moment, however they are working on that issue and there will be a future BIOS update that addresses it and adds support for booting from m.2.
Plextor M6E M.2 works fine as a Boot drive in PCi mode. Perhaps other X99 owners can add any Brands models of M.2 that work. There is little point in running these drives in Sata mode as it defeats the purpose of giving more bandwidth.
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I just copied a backup windows from my x79 rampage setup onto the ssd, worked fine.
Too much effort re-installing windows :)
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Edit: progress. I'm trying to set my Samsung XP941 as a boot drive. Once I set the boot to UEFI, I was able to install Win7 onto the XP941 seemingly smoothly, but when it completes the first round of installation, it reboots to update and goes directly into the BIOS, or tries restart the installation from the DVD.
post edited by feelthedarkness - 2014/11/20 11:28:08
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Edit: progress.
I'm trying to set my Samsung XP941 as a boot drive.
Once I set the boot to UEFI, I was able to install Win7 onto the XP941 seemingly smoothly, but when it completes the first round of installation, it reboots to update and goes directly into the BIOS, or tries restart the installation from the DVD.
Try taking out the disk or USB drive.
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When I did that it just kept going directly back into the BIOS.
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Is the boot order in the BIOS setup properly? You'll need to have the OS drive on top of the list.
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I double checked and it was at the top. I currently installed Win7 to a different SATA SSD, so maybe a BIOS update will fix it?
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