Intel SSD 750 & RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION

[NPano2]

I have a RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION motherboard and after reading about it a bought an Intel 750 Series HHHL (CEM2.0) 400GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEDMW400G4R1.

My mistake... 😞

After failing to boot from SSD… at Intel site I noticed the "Before you Buy" link that says:

A system based on an Intel® Z97 Chipset or an Intel® X99 Chipset.

My question: Is Intel going to support X79 chipsets in nearby future or I have to sell my NEW SSD 750 because a can't boot from it?

Is there any other way I can boot from Intel 750 SSD with my Asus RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION motherboard Intel® X79 Express Chipset.

Thank you all in advance

[NPano2]

Thanks again for your reply and been here with me.

Been there DONE that.

The last message (screenshoot) was after i installed drivers from Intel.

Is there something else to suggest?

I'm running out of options.

I looking and to modified bios to load to my motherboard, to bypass this error message(as i has double bios features).

But this will be my last thing to try.

[VPent]

Have you tried changing Secure Boot to "Other OS"?

This issue is an interesting one because there are at least two people saying that a Sabertooth X79 and a P9X79, both with original unmodified bios 4801, dated from 2014/07/21,

can boot the Intel 750: http://www.win-raid.com/t871f13-Discussion-NVMe-BIOS-Modules-and-NVMe-Support-13.html# msg19505 http://www.win-raid.com/t871f13-Discussion-NVMe-BIOS-Modules-and-NVMe-Support-13.html# msg19505

The bios you updated, I suppose is the 0801, dated from 2014/07/14 (about the same time), also should be able to permit 750 boot.

Sorry i couldn't help your issue, but people in win-raid forum are bios specialists and helpful and for sure they can help you.

Good luck.

[NPano2]

No Valdir as a matter of fact i didn't tried to change to "Other Boot".

I had an Asus RAIDR Express PCIe SSD and this was a must when you installed windows.

From what i can understand, you mean to switch to "Other OS" and after first install switch again to "Win8" mode and select boot from windows loader partition?

I will give it a try and get back to you with an update.

Thanks again.

[VPent]

Have you tried this:

Ref: http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/nvme_boot_guide_332098001us.pdf http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/nvme_boot_guide_332098001us.pdf

V.

[skeal]

It does work - I manage to boot from my intel 750 on my x79 asus rampage IV extreme yesterday and didn't have to mod the year old latest version of the factory asus bios that doesn't have nvme in it. Bios sees it as PATA SS. I cloned a windows 10 install from a sata drive onto the intel 750. Then after booting from a windows 10 iso USB key and using diskpart I assigned drive letters b and c to the reserved and primary partition and recreated/fixed the boot partition. Works well now and boots from the intel 750. Bios make sure pcie slots section is set to GEN3. Disable fastboot. Enable CSM. In CSM section (both legacy and UEFI) - on boot PCIE boot section change to UEFI first. Make sure the 750 is installed in one of the red slots on motherboard.

the diskpart instructions I found with google, in win-raid.com forums - googled around x79+diskpart+intel 750 or rampage IV extreme

the intel data migration tool (i.e. acronis) didn't work for me to clone other drive to the intel 750. Macrium Reflect worked well because it doesn't have to reboot to clone the c:\ drive.

benchmarks were good even on 2012 x79 motherboard.

diskpart commands I got here:

http://www.win-raid.com/t1243f16-Guide-How-to-boot-from-an-Intel-series-SSD-with-Windows-or-on-a-GA-... [Guide] How to boot from an Intel 750 series SSD with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 on a GA-Z77X-UD5H

Creating a UEFI Boot partition / Windows 7, 8 and 10  

As I mentioned before UEFI did not come bundled with the Windows so we must install it ourselves.

-You must now create a bootable usb with either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 using the media creation manager

-After that reboot your PC, press F12, and choose UEFI - PMAP

-Press Shift+F10 to open up a console Window, now type everything except the italics

diskpartlist disksel disk X (Where X is your SSD)list vollist partition

Then type:

sel partition X (Where X is your reserved partition)create partition efiformat fs = fat32assign letter = b:sel partition Y (Where Y is your primary partition)assign letter = c:exitThe type in console:mkdir b:\EFImkdir b:\EFI\Microsoftcd /d b:\EFI\Microsoftbootrec /fixbootbcdboot C:\Windows /l en-us /s b: /f UEFI Then Unplug your USB and reboot, make sure HD priority in BIOS is set to first boot device: PATA SS - and boom you're donebenchmarks: