960 EVO m.2 not recognized in the bios of X79 motherboard

amms50

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Hi everyone!
I have planned to build a pc that had power to edit videos and game at 4K ultra so I went for this build:
Motherboard:ASRock Extreme4 x79
CPU:Intel Xeon E5-2670
CPU water cooler:Corsair H100i v2
Ram:Kingston HyperX 16GB 1600mhz
Case:NZXT S340 Black/Blue
GPU:EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2 Hybrid
Storage:960 EVO 500gb + WD 2tb blue
Power supply:EVGA 750W Supernova G1

As the motherboard is a bit old so it doesn’t have a m.2 slot so I bought the pcie to m.2 adapter.
As I booted into the uefi bios it didn’t recognize the m.2 so I couldn’t install windows to boot from it.
So I installed windows on the 2tb hdd and went into the disk management and found the m.2 there.
So is there a way to mod the bios (or other method) to make it recognize the m.2 so I can make it a boot drive?

Thanks in advance!!
 
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Pretty sure ASRock Extreme4 x79 doesn't have support for booting from PCI-E. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. may be SOL. You should just return it and buy a regular SATA SSD, it will boot just as fast. Also I'm confused as to why you went with such old hardware. X79 boards are not cheap as they're discontinued.
 
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