The combination is:
Plextor M8Pe SSD 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe drive installed on ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING LGA 1151 DDR 4 Z170 GW motherboard. The CPU is i5-7600K, 4.2GHz, 6MB.
It is a fresh build and I am trying to install Win 10 from scratch. There is also a SATA Toshiba drive [TOSHIBA DT 3TB 64MB 3,5'' 7200rpm SATA3] installed. The M.2 I would like to use as a system drive, the Toshiba as storage drive. Fairly obvious.
What happens:
The motherboard absolutely won't accept a UEFI Win 10 install USB. I tried creating it with Rufus in pretty much all the UEFI modes. When in UEFI only it will appear on boot list, but trying to boot from it just causes a brief black flash and the BIOS reopens. If it is created in mixed mode the same happens, unless I choose the legacy USB mode and then it seems to install just fine. Same happens for USB created with the Windows tool - it seems to install properly.
To even make the Plextor drive visible from BIOS I use it in SATA mode (apparently in ASUS language "M.2" means "don't use M.2", so if M.2 interface is selected in advanced BIOS settings the drive is not visible. So it is running in SATA mode and the Plextor welcome screen show properly during boot, it is also visible from BIOS and on the list of bootable devices. However if I choose to boot from the drive (after seemingly installing Win 10 on it) a carret (underscore) flashes briefly a few times on the screen and I land back in BIOS.
Did anyone have a problem like that? Did you manage to fix it? I'm halfway set on just ditching the effing M.2 and buying a regular SATA SSD :/
This film shows what happens when I try to boot from M.2 with "installed" Win 10 on it. The BIOS settings are default, Win 10 was NOT installed from UEFI USB as my bios just doesn't seem to allow it. You can see at the beginning what happens. Afterwards I try to switch
CSM to auto - again with no result.
(Sorry for the very special music, it was the only way to remove the background noise
)
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUMEaCPhsEE"][/video]
Plextor M8Pe SSD 256GB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe drive installed on ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING LGA 1151 DDR 4 Z170 GW motherboard. The CPU is i5-7600K, 4.2GHz, 6MB.
It is a fresh build and I am trying to install Win 10 from scratch. There is also a SATA Toshiba drive [TOSHIBA DT 3TB 64MB 3,5'' 7200rpm SATA3] installed. The M.2 I would like to use as a system drive, the Toshiba as storage drive. Fairly obvious.
What happens:
The motherboard absolutely won't accept a UEFI Win 10 install USB. I tried creating it with Rufus in pretty much all the UEFI modes. When in UEFI only it will appear on boot list, but trying to boot from it just causes a brief black flash and the BIOS reopens. If it is created in mixed mode the same happens, unless I choose the legacy USB mode and then it seems to install just fine. Same happens for USB created with the Windows tool - it seems to install properly.
To even make the Plextor drive visible from BIOS I use it in SATA mode (apparently in ASUS language "M.2" means "don't use M.2", so if M.2 interface is selected in advanced BIOS settings the drive is not visible. So it is running in SATA mode and the Plextor welcome screen show properly during boot, it is also visible from BIOS and on the list of bootable devices. However if I choose to boot from the drive (after seemingly installing Win 10 on it) a carret (underscore) flashes briefly a few times on the screen and I land back in BIOS.
Did anyone have a problem like that? Did you manage to fix it? I'm halfway set on just ditching the effing M.2 and buying a regular SATA SSD :/
This film shows what happens when I try to boot from M.2 with "installed" Win 10 on it. The BIOS settings are default, Win 10 was NOT installed from UEFI USB as my bios just doesn't seem to allow it. You can see at the beginning what happens. Afterwards I try to switch
CSM to auto - again with no result.
(Sorry for the very special music, it was the only way to remove the background noise
)[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUMEaCPhsEE"][/video]
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