asus x299 ROG strix MB and samsung 960 pro m2 SSD

sonicman231

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Dec 19, 2017
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I just finished my rig, popped in the M2 drive and used a windows usb bootable to attempt to install windows right? well the samsung 960 pro wasnt showing up. I read some things online and first i tried resetting and making sure it was really in there, did not work. updated the bios. didnt work. turned off CSM, again nothing. no clue what to do here. thanks for any help... I also tried these steps

1 - Make sure you unplug all SATA and USB drives, the M.2 drive has to be the only drive installed.

2 - Go into the bios, under the boot tab there is an option for CSM, make sure it is disabled.

3 - Click on secure boot option below and make sure it is set to other OS, Not windows UEFI.

4 - Click on key management and clear secure boot keys.

5 - Insert a USB memory stick with a UEFI bootable iso of Windows 10 on it, USB3 is quicker but USB2 works also. A Windows DVD won’t work unless you’ve created your own UEFI Bootable DVD.

6 - Press F10 to save, exit and reboot.

7 - Windows will now start installing to your NVME drive as it has its own NVME driver built in, I don't think this would work with previous versions.

8 - When the PC reboots hit F2 to go back into the BIOS, you will see under boot priority that windows boot manager now lists your NVME drive.

9 - Click on secure boot again but now set it to WIndows UEFI mode.

10 - Click on key management and install default secure boot keys

11 - Press F10 to save and exit and windows will finish the install.


it did NOT work, no clue what to do.