Windows 10 installation on Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe

[nebelwerferx]

Good evening everyone

Does anyone know how to install usb uefi windows 10 on new Samsung SM951?
I spent whole weekend day and night, trying to install windows and nothing. The Windows Boot Manager recognizes this drive and it's on the list of drives, but cannot boot from it.
Windows installs fine and when its rebooting itself to finish installation, it simply loosing boot record, and my system freezes or gives me list of options to repair the boot, ofc nothing can be done. Same thing happens if I want to install Windows 7 uefi usb.
I followed this video and I tried many options but nothing works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No-ct8pQcIg

I got Intel i7 5960x+X99 Godlike Gaming Carbon with enough memory, two ssds, top 2xMSI 1080 cards as well, so there's no problem with hardware I think.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks


Thanks

 

[Hlsgsz]

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Go into the BIOS and do a load optimized defaults just to make sure you don't have a wrong setting. You don;t need to mess with boot priorities. After teh install, "Windows boot manager" should apper as the first boot option and that's what you want. Then save and restart, Go into the BIOS again and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.





Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.


**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

After the install, you should also install Samsung's NVMe drivers for optimal performance: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

 

[nebelwerferx]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

 

[nebelwerferx]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

Ther's no CSM but I think that option has a different name. BiOS in my mainboard seems to be little bit different than ASUS etc.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

Ther's no CSM but I think that option has a different name. BiOS in my mainboard seems to be little bit different than ASUS etc.

Well go into advanced mode, head to the BIOS section and post some pics here. we'll get it sorted.

 

[nebelwerferx]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

Ther's no CSM but I think that option has a different name. BiOS in my mainboard seems to be little bit different than ASUS etc.

Well go into advanced mode, head to the BIOS section and post some pics here. we'll get it sorted.

I'll do that next saturday if I wont fix this install myself. Busy week with work and cannot make anything during the weekdays. No time......

 

[Hlsgsz]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

Ther's no CSM but I think that option has a different name. BiOS in my mainboard seems to be little bit different than ASUS etc.

Well go into advanced mode, head to the BIOS section and post some pics here. we'll get it sorted.

I'll do that next saturday if I wont fix this install myself. Busy week with work and cannot make anything during the weekdays. No time......

Well if i'm not around to answer this thread, make a new specific thread and other will surely help you.

 

[nebelwerferx]

Thanks mate for your answer.
Actually I did almost the same, but I haven't added any drivers from Intel, besides I cannot find "CSM" in BIOS. Whatever I can find is only Secure Boot.
I will try your solution on upcoming weekend cos right now got no time for it.
Thanks for your help.

CSM shoudl be there in the BIOS settings. You should be in advanced BIOS mode, though. It may also be calle by the complete name "Compatibility Support Module". Either that, or go throug all the options in boot and disable enything legacy, leaving only UEFI.

Ther's no CSM but I think that option has a different name. BiOS in my mainboard seems to be little bit different than ASUS etc.

Well go into advanced mode, head to the BIOS section and post some pics here. we'll get it sorted.

I'll do that next saturday if I wont fix this install myself. Busy week with work and cannot make anything during the weekdays. No time......

Well if i'm not around to answer this thread, make a new specific thread and other will surely help you.

Ok thanks mate for your help.

 

[Hlsgsz]

You're welcome!