About to install Windows 10 onto PCIe 4 NVMe on Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE - advice please?

[RaMDOM]

Hi all. I have components arriving this week for a new build and have decided to go the AMD route with a 3600X. I have also decided to install a 1TB NVMe PCIe4.0 M2 drive which I would like to boot Windows from. This is a first for me and so I have been looking into the science behind this beforehand so I have some idea what I am doing (hopefully). So far it seems to be pretty simple:

1. Confirm or set the M.2 SSD as the first boot option
2. Confirm (or set) the Storage Boot Option Control to “UEFI”

and then I should be set.

The questionable part, from what I have been reading, is the CSM. From my internet investigation some people have had issues installing and then booting with CSM enabled and then have not been able to disable it afterwards, however others have had no problem; the MoBo type has not been that specific, but they have been talking about x570 bpards.

Looking at the Aorus Elite Manual by default CSM support is enabled (enables UEFI CSM). Whereas 'Disabled' disables UEFI CSM and supports UEFI BIOS boot process only. Should this be disabled? I am not sure. All other UEFI options seem to be defaulted to enabled.

Would appreciate some advice on this and anything else that I may need to consider.

Thanks in advance.

 

[RaMDOM]

Thanks for the response. Why would this be enabled by default, I would have thought that it should be the other way around. Unless there is no issue with it being enabled?

 

[RaMDOM]

I'd recommend only having the NvME connected (no other storage drives) while doing the installation, Windows 10 sometimes likes to put parts of itself on other drives for some reason and it can cause problems.

Plug your other ssd's etc in once you're done.

Yep that is what the internet has advised. With 1 Tb I will not be in a hurry to install any other drives for a little while.