A88XM-A/USB 3.1 will not boot in PCIe with OCZ RD400

JayLind

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I have a Asus A88XM-A/USB 3.1. I also purchased a Toshiba OCZ RD400 128gig PCIe SSD. My problem is that i can not get the Toshiba to boot or even be see in the UEFI Bios... Can anyone help me with this by chance? I have tried several different Bios options and now am here after 5 hours. I can get the RD400 to be seen in windows install, but in windows install, it says that my bios will not see the drive and can not be installed.
 
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In order to boot from an NVMe M2 or PCIe SSD, the BIOS must have support for NVMe drives. Unfortunately your BIOS/motherboard doesn't seem to support it so you can't use it as a boot drive. You can only use it as storage. You could try updating the BIOS if you don't already have the latest version. Maybe Asus later added NVMe support in the latest version or maybe they will add in the future. You should know though that if it did have proper NVMe support they should mention it in the specs, and since they don't, they probably won't add it later.
In order to boot from an NVMe M2 or PCIe SSD, the BIOS must have support for NVMe drives. Unfortunately your BIOS/motherboard doesn't seem to support it so you can't use it as a boot drive. You can only use it as storage. You could try updating the BIOS if you don't already have the latest version. Maybe Asus later added NVMe support in the latest version or maybe they will add in the future. You should know though that if it did have proper NVMe support they should mention it in the specs, and since they don't, they probably won't add it later.
 
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