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    Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

    Modded the attached BIOS for the Gigabyte AM1M-S2H so it can support NVMe PCIe SSD's.
    I tested a 512GB Samsung SM951 using this adapter and it worked great.
    The x16 slot is x4 Gen 2 which does limit the speed though.
    Because the SSD supports Gen 3...

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    Last edited by Per Hansson; 10-30-2016, 01:23 PM. Reason: Attached photo of BIOS screen showing NVMe drive.
    "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."
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    Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

    Hello.

    I own the ASUS AM1M-A, and MSI AM1M. I was wondering if you can point me in the direction of where I can learn to mod the BIOS of either, or both, of these boards for NVME support.

    The ASUS AM1M-A current BIOS version is 1501 (https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboa...HelpDesk_BIOS/), and the AM1M's version is 17.3 (https://ca.msi.com/Motherboard/support/AM1M#down-bios.)

    Thanks for any guidance.

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      #3
      Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

      Hi, I have used MMTool 4.50.0023 and as source the BIOS from another Gigabyte board that had NVMe support.
      From it I have extracted Nvme NvmeSmm & NVMEINT13 modules.
      Then I have inserted these into the BIOS to be modded which is the file attached to the OP.
      Note: they need to be inserted into the same volume index as the CSMCORE module is located in. (01 in the case of Gigabyte AM1M-S2H BIOS).

      Nowdays there are better ways to do this, please read this tutorial:
      https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/ho...efi-bios/30901
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      Last edited by SMDFlea; 05-07-2023, 07:27 AM. Reason: edited winraid link
      "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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        Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

        isn't nvme just a PCI-E controller chip with the flash chips on the other side? Why would you need a mod for anything other than booting from it
        Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
        ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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          #5
          Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

          The mod is to allow booting from NVMe drives, I thought that would be obvious?
          "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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            #6
            Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

            I think some NVMe drives are classed as scsi controllers. I think the Samsung Pro series are (unless it has bios support), though you don't get 100% performance, it's still bootable.
            Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
            ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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              Re: Gigabyte AM1M-S2H PCIe M.2 NVMe BIOS support mod

              I've had this motherboard, for a home server, for about 5 years, now. Managed to hose the installation of an OS upgrade, and decided to upgrade the boot drive with an NVME drive on a pcie x4 adapter. After putting it in, and booting from an install DVD, it turned out the new drive was not visible! Searching around I found this. Gulping, I qflashed the board and rebooted to the installer. It saw the drive!!! Installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and found that any IO bound processes are literally 10x faster! Boots in seconds!! Sweet! Thank you so much!
              Now, we can do this the hard way, or... well, actually there's just the hard way.
              -- Buffy Summers, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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