2022-X58/1366 PIN Motherboards NVME M.2 SSD BIOS MOD Collection

[Adamentys]

Hello guys, new on this forum and on the X58 platform, i bought my dream motherboard and CPU form 12 years ago, a Rampage 3 Extreme and a i7 980x for my LAN machine.
I then thought why not trying to use an NVME drive on this old motherboard, so i googled how to do it and found this thread.

Before flashing anything i plugged my noname 512Gig NVME SSD and it was recognized and usable in Windows, then i tried to flash the BIOS on the first page but my 960 EVO nor my 512Gig noname NVME SSD was recognized in the BIOS, so i tried the BIOS moded by @Nomadmain few post ahead and my 960 EVO is recognised in the BIOS as an IDE drive (is this normal ?) but i can't install Windows on it, the installer can't see it and, Windows installed on my SATA SSD can't see it either.
I then tried the noname SSD and it's not recognized in the BIOS but usable in Windows, the opposite of my 960 EVO.

Can someone help me with those issues ?
(And i also found a Meltdown&Spectre patched BIOS here, is it possible for someone to modify it with NVME SSD capability ?)

Thanks a lot guys !

 

[MrPanda]

Hello
Multiple thoughts.
-The Bios modded for NVMe by Ismail are based on the ones modded for specter & metldown (also include extended cpu table)
-There is zero chance a noname drive can be supported, as the PCI VEN reference has to be added "by hand" in the bios mod
-when trying to install windows on the NVMe, be sure to disable all other (sata, raid, special asus raid, etc) disk controllers
-it is indeed strange that the bios sees the NVMe as "IDE". I'd expect "SCSI", again, check all other controllers are disabled, that might help.
-to what i red in the thread before, the NVMe should be usable from a SSD windows as data drive without any mod, which, to me, points again to a controller conflict.

that s all i can think right now.

Again :

Check first that your drive is supported in the bios before flashing.... it s not hard to check the list of mods included. You're lucky to have a samsung, as it appears it s been included by the mod author in all the bioses, but trying to get a Noname NVMe to work just shows you did not really read even the most recent posts in this topic. Dont Flash your motherboard blindly like that. not good.

 

[Kuuntje]

Try installing OS on the SSD and clone it to the NVME. This trick will work, had the same issue on my R3E

 

[Burhan294]

hello everyone

Can anyone help for GA-EX58-UD3R (rev 1.0) NVME SSD bios?

 

[Kuuntje]

Any luck yet Adamentys?

 

[Daemon247]

Hello, İsmailTPC_Hastanesi
can you please help me i have bought expensive m.2 ssd alongside with pcie card,everything is installed,i have flashed with your bios but it doesnt see the m2 drive,windows sees it but not in the bios,my bios does not support uefi.

My motherboard is RAMPAGE III EXTREME my NVMe SSD is Samsung 980 PRO, hardware id PCI\VEN_144D&DEV_A80A&CC_0108

OS WIndows 7,please i'm begging you to help me sir,because i have found this and i need this NVMe ssd to work on this machine,please help me.

 

[TT99C5]

I registered here specifically to say thanks. Confirmed working on the Asus Rampage III Gene motherboard with a Crucial P3 1TB M.2 drive. I modded the bios myself using the MMTool application and a different computer to pull the Hardware ID from. I NEVER expected to be able to boot from an NVME on an X58 platform but here we are. Phenomenal work from everyone involved.

Of note. My Asus Rampage III Gene had a quick flash in the BIOS, so the AFUDOS included was throwing me for a loop. I ended up successfully flashing by renaming the R3GENE.ROM file to BIOS.ROM and the EZ Flash utility immediately saw it and flashed it just fine.

 

[Adamentys]

Hello
Multiple thoughts.
-The Bios modded for NVMe by Ismail are based on the ones modded for specter & metldown (also include extended cpu table)
-There is zero chance a noname drive can be supported, as the PCI VEN reference has to be added "by hand" in the bios mod
-when trying to install windows on the NVMe, be sure to disable all other (sata, raid, special asus raid, etc) disk controllers
-it is indeed strange that the bios sees the NVMe as "IDE". I'd expect "SCSI", again, check all other controllers are disabled, that might help.
-to what i red in the thread before, the NVMe should be usable from a SSD windows as data drive without any mod, which, to me, points again to a controller conflict.

that s all i can think right now.

Again :

Check first that your drive is supported in the bios before flashing.... it s not hard to check the list of mods included. You're lucky to have a samsung, as it appears it s been included by the mod author in all the bioses, but trying to get a Noname NVMe to work just shows you did not really read even the most recent posts in this topic. Dont Flash your motherboard blindly like that. not good.

Good to know those BIOS are based on the Spectre&Meltdown patched ones
Yeah i know there's no chance, but i tried anyway, maybe it can work with a little bit of luck ahah
I will try this
My Noname SSD is recognized as a SCSCI drive in Windows and usable as a data drive but not recognized in the BIOS, i will try to mod my own BIOS, i don't want to use my 960Evo, it's normally my external storage for quick transfers between my PC's

Try installing OS on the SSD and clone it to the NVME. This trick will work, had the same issue on my R3E

Will try this if nothing is working

Any luck yet Adamentys?

Didn't have the time to try, i have 5 days off of work from today so i'm trying now

Thanks for your answers guys

Edit : after some diging here and there, i found something interesting in the BIOS moded by ismail, he aded an NVME drive that as the same Device_ID as mine : 2263 (SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller) but not the same Vendor_ID. (2646, mine is 126F)
As you can see on the screenshot, the highlighted module on MMTool is for a Kingston A2000 NVME SSD, i also confirmed with a HEX editor that it was effectively something related to NVME.
Now, the last step for me is to modify this module to my Vendor_ID, i want to replace the 2646 VEN_ID to my 126F VEN_ID but don't know for now how to do it, HEX is like Chinese for me, i don't know where i can find those in the module.

 

[fluffi444]

Edit : after some diging here and there, i found something interesting in the BIOS moded by ismail, he aded an NVME drive that as the same Device_ID as mine : 2263 (SM2263EN/SM2263XT SSD Controller) but not the same Vendor_ID. (2646, mine is 126F)
As you can see on the screenshot, the highlighted module on MMTool is for a Kingston A2000 NVME SSD, i also confirmed with a HEX editor that it was effectively something related to NVME.
Now, the last step for me is to modify this module to my Vendor_ID, i want to replace the 2646 VEN_ID to my 126F VEN_ID but don't know for now how to do it, HEX is like Chinese for me, i don't know where i can find those in the module.

Looks like you need more digging in the thread. Actually all is mentioen for your AMIBIOS already.

Look here. The first picture shows were and how to change values. There are two Samsungs shown: VEN_144D DEV_A802 and VEN_144D DEV_A804.

2022-X58/1366 PIN Motherboards NVME M.2 SSD BIOS MOD Collection

Hello ismailTPC_Hastanesi , please take down the above bios, mobo bricked. just to make sure there was nothing wrong with my mobo i reinstalled the file you have on the first page of this forum, and all went well. Only error that i can see is the one you pointed out initially (just the intel...

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The logic what and how to change should be clear then. Look carefully! The digits have to be switched (e.g. 14 4D will be 4D 14 and A8 02 will be 02 A8).

I would recommend to use MMTOOL 3.22 BKMOD (easy to find via google) - easy How to is linked here:

2022-X58/1366 PIN Motherboards NVME M.2 SSD BIOS MOD Collection

when update bios i remove ssh hdd and xhd disable mode idle Make a picture of your "integrated peripherals" settings in BIOS and post it here.

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BUT:
Actually you guys with AMIBIOS (like many ASUS Boards) may not need to mod the single OPROM files.
Acording to the HowTo on WIN-RAID an universal OPROM (linked in the HowTo as well) can be used and MMTOOL will do the link to VEN/DEV if corretly entered/used in MMTOOL.

 

[Adamentys]

If I understand correctly, i have 3 options :
1. I can manually change some values with an HEX editor in the module.bin i have extracted with MMTool and replace it. (The easiest way)
2. I need the NVMEOpROM of my SSD and injecting it into my BIOS with MMTool but i don't have it. so, not my answer.
3. Use an universal NVMEOpROM like the one on the BIOS's by ismail, modifying it and inject it, a little more difficult than the first option.

So, i now understand a little more AMI Legacy BIOS modding, thanks a lot for your eplanations man.
Next step : replacing the old splash screen with something more modern, but that's not for immediately, for now, i just want to be able to boot from my noname SSD

Edit : i tried modifying the module.bin extracted from MMtool (the one you told me to use) with HxD, the values are correctly saved but nothing changed in MMtools, i maybe understand how to do it but don't know yes how to do it, let's dig some more

Edit 2 : replacing is not the solution, i deleted the original module after extracting it then modified it and lastly insert it, now the values are OK in MMTool, hope i don't have to use my recovery BIOS ahah.
Edit 3 : i added my moded BIOS in the files, if someone can tell me if it's good or not, and a screen of the original and modified bios

 

[compuworm]

Wow, you are certainty putting in the efforts to make it all work.....i applaud your staying power.

 

[fluffi444]

If I understand correctly, i have 3 options :
1. I can manually change some values with an HEX editor in the module.bin i have extracted with MMTool and replace it. (The easiest way)
2. I need the NVMEOpROM of my SSD and injecting it into my BIOS with MMTool but i don't have it. so, not my answer.
3. Use an universal NVMEOpROM like the one on the BIOS's by ismail, modifying it and inject it, a little more difficult than the first option.

1. Yes - Possible - But just add it as a new one. Replacing is not needed! MMTOOL does not like it if eg. all ID 20 ROMs are removed.
2. No - Only known working Leagacy NVMe OPROM has the Samsung 950 Pro - And this OPROM is/was the base of all Ismalis modding (HEX modded for every single NVMe).
3. No - The universal NvmeOpRom (from WIN-RAID) do NOT need any HEX modding. Just use it has shown on WIN-RAID HowTo. MMTOOL will do the VEN/DEV stuff to the BIOS if entered corretly.

Ismail did it not exactly like mentioned on WIN-RAID. He useded for AMIBIOS also the 950 Pro as base, HEX modded, and added it.
Both seams to be working... I gues Isamil just uses the same HEX modded OPROMs for (maybe) all this BIOS - to keep it simple.

All in all
A. Gigabyte BIOS (AWARD Modular BIOS) needs the HEX modded 18KB OPROM (Base 950pro) - to be added with CBROM (1.55 recommended, but sometimes 1.15 or 1.98 are usefull as well)
B. ASUS BIOS (AMIBIOS) can use both: HEX modded 18KB OPROM or universal NvmeOpRom 8KB - Both has to be insert the same way with MMTOOL.

(B ist more or less an estimation - But I thrust the User Eierhals on WIN-RAID - I do not have an ASUS Board and nerver tested the univeral way)

 

[xDelete_-]

Hello! Is there any way/possibility to create a UEFI BIOS for P6X58D-E or Premium? If I need to buy a higher capacity chip for this I would as it would be so worth it.

 

[fluffi444]

Edit 3 : i added my moded BIOS in the files, if someone can tell me if it's good or not, and a screen of the original and modified bios

Not good! Do not flash this...
Check file size of Source of your added 126F_2263 PCI ROM. Something went wrong...

 

[Jonbee.603]

Amazing work! I’m going to breathe new life into this old board

 

[Wojtech.n]

Good afternoon,

I am writing to ask for help because I installed the latest modified BIOS, but it does not work with SSD memory. I want to use the SSD for booting.
If anyone on the forum would have a bit of time to add a memory bone to the BIOS I would greatly appreciate it. I've never added an SSD and I don't have a programmer in case of trouble, but if someone could tell me how to add the hardware so it's visible through the board that would be a good solution too

I would like to add that the LINUX installer UBUNTU and MINT in the latest versions see the disk, but it is impossible to boot the system.

Kindly thank you for your help

Wojciech

MOTHERBOARD: ASUS P6T SE
SSD: PX500 GOODRAM GEN.2 256GB
Readed by Windows7
PCI\VEN_1987&DEV_5013&SUBSYS_50131987&REV_01
PCI\VEN_1987&DEV_5013&SUBSYS_50131987
PCI\VEN_1987&DEV_5013&CC_010802
PCI\VEN_1987&DEV_5013&CC_0108

Hello again after a very long time. I managed to put the GOODRAM SSD address into the BIOS, and it boots my OS the motherboard sees the NVMe SSD. However, the motherboard does not see the other 2 HDDs plugged into a 1:1 copy RAID, that is 2x 1TB each and one 500GB free HDD.

I did BIOS modifications on BIOS Ismaeli and dumped the penultimate SSD and uploaded the modified file on the HEX of the last drive - because the DEV address had to be changed from 5012 to 5013 then I packed it with MMTool and that was it.

Is anyone able to explain to me why it is not reading my other HDDs?

Greetings
Wojciech

 

[Adamentys]

Wow, you are certainty putting in the efforts to make it all work.....i applaud your staying power.

Thank you, it's good to know how things works so i do it with what i have until it works, or don't work x)

1. Yes - Possible - But just add it as a new one. Replacing is not needed! MMTOOL does not like it if eg. all ID 20 ROMs are removed.
2. No - Only known working Leagacy NVMe OPROM has the Samsung 950 Pro - And this OPROM is/was the base of all Ismalis modding (HEX modded for every single NVMe).
3. No - The universal NvmeOpRom (from WIN-RAID) do NOT need any HEX modding. Just use it has shown on WIN-RAID HowTo. MMTOOL will do the VEN/DEV stuff to the BIOS if entered corretly.

Ismail did it not exactly like mentioned on WIN-RAID. He useded for AMIBIOS also the 950 Pro as base, HEX modded, and added it.
Both seams to be working... I gues Isamil just uses the same HEX modded OPROMs for (maybe) all this BIOS - to keep it simple.

All in all
A. Gigabyte BIOS (AWARD Modular BIOS) needs the HEX modded 18KB OPROM (Base 950pro) - to be added with CBROM (1.55 recommended, but sometimes 1.15 or 1.98 are usefull as well)
B. ASUS BIOS (AMIBIOS) can use both: HEX modded 18KB OPROM or universal NvmeOpRom 8KB - Both has to be insert the same way with MMTOOL.

(B ist more or less an estimation - But I thrust the User Eierhals on WIN-RAID - I do not have an ASUS Board and nerver tested the univeral way)

Ok, i don't have to replace anything, just adding it, I take note.
I also have a Gigabyte G1.Sniper but don't need it since the Rampage 3 Extreme is a better board for overclocking, i think i will try to mod it's BIOS for selling it.

Not good! Do not flash this...
Check file size of Source of your added 126F_2263 PCI ROM. Something went wrong...

Yeah, i saw that right after adding the new entry, that's why i posted here to know if it was good to flash or not ahah.

Thanks again for your answers, let's go for another try !

Edit : i think i got it now, BIOS by Ismail on the left, my edited BIOS on the right, i had to delete one module, MMTool was returning an error.
@fluffi444 waiting for your approbation to flash it, i don't want to use my secondary BIOS. (but i think i can flash it)

Edit 2 : i flashed my modified BIOS, it works like a charm, the Windows installer see my NVME drive without problems but the BIOS still see it as an IDE drive, i disabled the SATA, SATA6G &1394 controller but it did nothing, if the speeds aren't great after a CrystalDiskMark, i will need to dig in the BIOS to see if there's more controllers to disable.
Edit 3 : Speed wise, everything is good, i'm getting the full potential of PCIe 2.0.

Thanks a lot again for your precious help @fluffi444

 

[jakimoto]

Thank you for your wonderful work!

 

[fluffi444]

Edit : i think i got it now, BIOS by Ismail on the left, my edited BIOS on the right, i had to delete one module, MMTool was returning an error.
@fluffi444 waiting for your approbation to flash it, i don't want to use my secondary BIOS. (but i think i can flash it)

Edit 2 : i flashed my modified BIOS, it works like a charm, the Windows installer see my NVME drive without problems but the BIOS still see it as an IDE drive, i disabled the SATA, SATA6G &1394 controller but it did nothing, if the speeds aren't great after a CrystalDiskMark, i will need to dig in the BIOS to see if there's more controllers to disable.

OK - then BIOS was full and the removal of another ID 20 ROM was needed - That's fine.
But be sure that you choose an formaly additionally added ROM DEV 144D is Samsung and is for sure added by Ismail... And should be save to remove if no Samsung NVMe is used.
Or/and check via https://devicehunt.com/ whats behind DEV/VEN...

IDE is also OK - Start this thread from the beginning and take note of the the several pictures. Some BIOS will return IDE for added NVMe - That OK like it is.

Fine that all works now.

This should motivate others to try it for themselfs - Especially if they/you have AMIBIOS and MMTOOL works for you...

 

[Jonbee.603]

Thank you!

Kingston NV2 on Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R:
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P.S.: A few additional cents on disabling of integral peripherals: the only thing that must be disabled is "GSATA 6_7/IDE Controller". Everything else can be enabled. Even GSATA 8_9/IDE Controller can stay enabled. If someone needs SATA3, then 2 ports (out of 4) can be enabled (but it will slow boot for 2-3 seconds: to load gigabyte sata driver).
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I have a ga-x58-ud3r rev 2
I purchased this specific drive after failing with other (not in this forum) nvme and provided BIOS from page 1 of this forum.
In this case is donbobka on a different board revision? I can't get the drive to show up... I have a Kingston SNVS1000G.

Whats worse is that I was using the modified bios for quite some time this past week waiting for the drive to arrive successfully. I tried different links on this forum for the same bios (rev 2.0) and corrupting my bios a few times. I now no longer can get the original modified bios I had installed again correctly. I had to recover from my dual bios 3 times, then flash the 1mb bios, then the 2mb bios, then the modified bios. Each time modified bios would not do anything after listing IDE drives on POST. It would continually hang with a blinking underscore and not even enter BIOS Setup/QFlash or boot any drives, nothing worked. Does anyone have any thoughts on what I can do here? It seems to me that this drive and bios are correct, according to the forum... yet I cannot get this to happen for me!

I am talking about This BIOS from page 1 -

on a ga-x58-ud3r rev 2.0 with the Kingston drive here

Modified bios cant get past post??

 

[MrPanda]

Each time modified bios would not do anything after listing IDE drives on POST. It would continually hang with a blinking underscore and not even enter BIOS Setup/QFlash

you need to disable the Sata 3 controller, any gigabyte raid controller. (on my UD7 it s called sata 6-7)
to access the bios, remove the Nvme, disable the SATA3 Controller, put back the Nvme, enjoy. (you ll have to remove the nvme to access the bios in case the bios gets reset to default settings) (i ll see if it is possible to change the sata3 to disabled by default, later, end of june, i ll have some time)

 

[Jonbee.603]

you need to disable the Sata 3 controller, any gigabyte raid controller. (on my UD7 it s called sata 6-7)
to access the bios, remove the Nvme, disable the SATA3 Controller, put back the Nvme, enjoy. (you ll have to remove the nvme to access the bios in case the bios gets reset to default settings) (i ll see if it is possible to change the sata3 to disabled by default, later, end of june, i ll have some time)

Omg it works!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

 

[Adamentys]

OK - then BIOS was full and the removal of another ID 20 ROM was needed - That's fine.
But be sure that you choose an formaly additionally added ROM DEV 144D is Samsung and is for sure added by Ismail... And should be save to remove if no Samsung NVMe is used.
Or/and check via https://devicehunt.com/ whats behind DEV/VEN...

IDE is also OK - Start this thread from the beginning and take note of the the several pictures. Some BIOS will return IDE for added NVMe - That OK like it is.

Fine that all works now.

This should motivate others to try it for themselfs - Especially if they/you have AMIBIOS and MMTOOL works for you...

Yeah, i found this site before modifying my BIOS, that's what helped me remove the correct ID ROM. That's also how i found my noname SSD had the same controller used in Kingston A2000 SSD's.
Thanks to you, that wasn't so difficult, you guided me well !

Hope my experience motivate others to do the same for their motherboards.

 

[Super Relics]

Hello, I don't know if this question has already been asked but I just wanted to know if at any point we can flash our X58 back with an original unmodded BIOS.

Because I still have the original ASUS box mint with cables and manuals, who knows if one day I could auction this motherboard clean and original without any mods.

Thank you for your time.

 

[ahfah119]

I registered also specifically to say thank you! @İsmailTPC_Hastanesi !!
Including a screenshot of the passing result on my MB.

MB: MSI Big Bang XPower (X58 chipset.)
CPU: i7 980x
NVMe: Samsung M2 980 1TB NVMe
PCIe-NVMe PCB: ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 4.0 X4 Expansion Card (this card is overkill and can only use install 1 NVMe as BIOS don't support additional lanes.) But this is what I have I figure might as well give it a try.
PCI Slot: E5. (This MB E2 and E5 are designated PCIe x16.)

Experience: Method to get it working.
1. I have a working version Windows 10 x64 installed on a SATA SSD since 2020.
2. Have the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe card just to try out NVMe on this PC.
3. Installed Samsung NVMe SSD 980 on the Hyper M.2 x16 PCB.
4. True Image cloned drive. Source Win 10 SSD to the Samsung 980.
5. Reboot with standard MSI BIOS.170 from 2012. Obviously the Boot selection menu won't show the Samsung 980.
6. Save the OC profile to make sure all things related to OC is saved.
7. M-Flash the downloaded bios version .181 from floor 1.
8. Restored OC profile to make sure MB doesn't blow up.
9. This time the N1-Samsung 980 shows up as selectable option in the boot sequence screen.
10. Wala. Windows 10, X58, NVMe Boot.


Flash the downloaded BIOS from floor #1. Nice new splash screen. Initially I had a generic "TeamGroup NVMe drive" installed. And this drive won't show up obviously since driver are specific to demonstrated by floor#1 owner. Luckily, I do have a Samsung NVMe 980 sitting around few days ago it was $44 on Amazon. Figure why not try it. Below is the result!

Thank you thank you thank you! @İsmailTPC_Hastanesi