HP Z620 boot from NVME problem

[litsnsirn]

I have been trying to build myself up a Z620 workstation for a while now, and I think I finally have all of the parts that I need and this is giving me gout. It's my understanding that that as long as you have the newest firmware, one is supposed to be able to boot from a NVME drive in a Z620 workstation.

There are lots of different posts across the internet and they don't all seem to agree with one another and a lot have old, outdated information.

I have the official Z-Turbo adapter cards; I've tried a HP branded Samsung SM951, as well as a couple of other drives I had laying around; and I've tried toggling all of the bios options around that I can think of to try, storage controller mode, AMT on/off, etc… I can install windows from a usb drive, like I would expect to, but after it reboots, I get the ‘no bootable media' error if I remove the usb stick. The NVME drive also does not show up in boot selection if I select the boot menu. I have the newer boot block date motherboard, as I am abler to use the V2 processors. I have the newest bios installed, but I have not updated the Intel ME because I'm not sure that would have anything to do with it.

Any ideas anyone?

[Eniaro]

Re: HP Z620 boot from NVME problem

Z620 was made before NVME was popularized most likely it cannot boot without modifications...
However hp sometimes support old devices longer than expected and you might get lucky.

1. Update ME
2. For Windows you may need F6 drivers for your NVME drive and adapter card*

If the above doesn't work a modified bios will get you there.