For the 3 lines with subtype “DXE driver” and Type “File” with Text “Nvme”, “NvmeSmm”, and “NVMEINT13”, I right-clicked each Name (e.g. From what I can tell those are related to GUI options and help menu text which are not needed or necessarily compatible with other boards. You may find other hits such as those in the “User interface section”. Contribute to LongSoft/UEFITool development by creating an account on GitHub. There are more recent versions of UEFITool, but at the time of writing they don’t let you modify the firmware files for some reason. To get the NVME modules, I used UEFITool 0.21.5. The readme indicates which files are the actual BIOS.
MSI Z87 UEFITOOL ZIP
I got the latest BIOS/UEFI firmware from MSI’s support website and extracted the zip files they provide. To get the module files I needed, I used the Z97 MSI MPower’s latest BIOS because it is as similar to the Z77 MSI MPower as possible but has NVME boot support. To read and boot NVME drives your BIOS requires one or more modules.
MSI Z87 UEFITOOL SERIES
UEFI Firmware files are structured in a series of modules and other files. What matters is that it’s a PCIE-x4 slot which won’t bottleneck my PCIE 3.0-x4 SX8200. This adapter has a second slot for SATA-based M.2 SSDs and a corresponding SATA data port. If it’s an M.2 drive and your motherboard doesn’t have an M.2 slot, buy an M.2 to PCIE adapter like this: You need to connect the NVME SSD to the motherboard. Regardless, it was necessary to modify the BIOS to get it bootable on my MPower. I’ve heard rumours that some Samsung NVME drives will boot on unsupported motherboards using AHCI as a fallback, but have not verified this, or whether my ADATA SX8200 has a similar compatibility feature. Due to this, I needed to modify the MPower BIOS to get it to boot from NVME, as expected. You may have to use UEFI booting for everything that boots from the NVME, but I’m not sure.Īfter performing the modifications described below, I switched the MPower back to the latest (unmodified) BIOS from MSI and found the NVME drive disappeared from my boot list while my SATA-based windows UEFI installs showed up. You have safer but less convenient options, and thus have been warned. There are alternatives to BIOS modding such as using the NVME drive as a secondary drive, or by using a bootloader like GRUB on a SATA or USB device to boot from the NVME drive indirectly. You need to be much more cautious if your motherboard does not have dual BIOS, since you could brick your motherboard by flashing modified firmware. This guide is only directly applicable to the Z77 MSI MPower with an ADATA SX8200 but may be applicable to other boards. It worked, so I retraced my steps and wrote it up hoping it might help somebody else.
MSI Z87 UEFITOOL MOD
I had a hard time finding a guide to mod in NVME support for an older UEFI motherboard that covered everything I needed to know, so I pieced together a few other guides to upgrade my Z77 MPower.
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