Help and BIOS for Samsung 960 Evo NVMe SSD?

Aug 17, 2018
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Hi all, it's my first post here

I just bought and assembled the following PC:

i7 8700k
MSI Z370 Gaming Plus
G.Skill RipJaws 2400 CL15 16GB (2x8gb) Red DDR4
MSI Gaming 8G 1070Ti
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe m.2
I'm running 1440p 144hz Gsync in a Dell monitor

I have been able to install windows 10 pro and update to 1803, BUT, i think i got the wrong BIOS configuration because the PC freezes while running... It doesn't matter if i'm gaming or in the desktop, it just doesn't work properly. Chrome isn't able to navigate, Nvidia Gforce experience won't oppen and shutters... I will now first explain what i've tried and then the current bios configuration and some questions, i would really apreciate if someone could give me a hand.

What i've tried:

1) I've installed from scratch windows 3 times.. The first one, I used driver booster while windows was updating and installed as I always do. I started getting BSOD with "Critical Service failed" that logged some ntoskrnl.exe (Wich could be anything... power management, memory, drivers). I thought i shouldn't have used Driver booser (i've used it hundred times in a lot of PCs and never got a problem).

2) The second time i installed drivers from MSI and Intel websites, but the pc wasn't working. It got freezes and some aplications worked awful (chrome was the worst one). I think i made a mess with RST drivers.

3) I installed again from scratch (Always with USB bootable, with the win10 ISO burned with the win7 usbtool. A friend just now told me i should use the Microsoft tool, I will try the next time i install windows. He also said problems could come from here). I let windows update go and go for hours until i got the 1803. I installed drivers, and nothing, the PC was going as bad as always. To put it some way, it goes very good until it starts doing strange crap, freezing, etc.

Then, the BIOS config which i don't know if i got it all correct:

Consider I just have the m.2 drive, and I won't put any other 4 the moment.
A) There's an option called Windows 10 WHQL support DISABLED. A friend told me I should enable it. There's also a Windows 7 "..." next to that that appears "Enabled". What should I do? win10 enabled win7 disabled?
B) M.2/Optane Genie: Here's a big deal. MSI offers this "Switch" in the BIOS config. I've read in some places that if you are not going to do RAID configs you must not enable this option. But again, i'm not sure, should or shouldn't I? I've also read that this genie enables Intel RST. I understand that leaving it "OFF" means i'm using ACHI, and some people have told me m.2 goes better with RST (So i should turn ON the genie?)
C) I've also read i have to change the PCIe bandwith configuration to X4. Is this true? Isn't the M.2 port in the MSI Z370 already configured that way? I don't know if the guy i read that told another one to put X4 was because their mobas didn't have an M.2 port and they were using current PCIe ports...

PD: Temps are fine, and task manager doesn't show big loads neither in CPU, GPU, M.2 and RAM

Many thanks, it's really a pain in the ass to have spent 1700+€ and not being able to use it...
 
well considering your using windows 10 i would enable windows 10 whql support and disable windows 7.

Just wondering have you tried with just ram stick? You might want to try a Mem86 test to make sure you dont have any ram issues.

also what PSU are you using? i hope a teir 1 one for that price point of your system