Intel 600p Series M2 ????
- Thread starter Efour
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Sorted. Windows 7 installed on the 600p and booting fine.
Okay, so the only way it would work is the following:
- Into BIOS and set overclock back to stock.
- Drive should appear in the devices list but not under the actual M2 port - seems this is intentional as only AHCI devices show there. But the NVMe drive does appear elsewhere.
- Important bit - CSM set to ENABLED and Storage OPROM Policy to UEFI ONLY. Disabling CSM was reported to work but it would just BSOD when the Windows 7 install began to load.
- Download Windows 7 ISO from the Microsoft website (google it) using a valid serial key.
- Download Gigabyte Windows 7 USB/Hotfix Utility.
- Download Rufus
Using Rufus, format a USB stick of at least 4GB to GPT partitioning, NTFS file system, Default Allocation Size, and by selecting said Windows 7 ISO to install onto the stick. Let Rufus do it's thing.
Keeping the USB stick inserted, fire up the Gigabyte utility. I unchecked the box for the USB3 hotfix as I don't have a Gigabyte board. Select the USB stick in the drop down menu, select NVME hotfix install and let it go it's merry way.
After it had completed, I simply booted off the stick and it was all picked up and installed - you might want to use a USB2 port if you have one to rule out the possibility of incompatibility between the installer and lack of USB3 drivers.
Note: This was done on a Windows 10 machine (my missus' laptop) as when trying this on Windows 7 or 8 the Gigabyte Utility would fail. So if you get some error like "Cannot copy Offline Files" - try the utility on Windows 10.
There you go, i'm now having all the fun of installing circa 300 updates!
Okay, so the only way it would work is the following:
- Into BIOS and set overclock back to stock.
- Drive should appear in the devices list but not under the actual M2 port - seems this is intentional as only AHCI devices show there. But the NVMe drive does appear elsewhere.
- Important bit - CSM set to ENABLED and Storage OPROM Policy to UEFI ONLY. Disabling CSM was reported to work but it would just BSOD when the Windows 7 install began to load.
- Download Windows 7 ISO from the Microsoft website (google it) using a valid serial key.
- Download Gigabyte Windows 7 USB/Hotfix Utility.
- Download Rufus
Using Rufus, format a USB stick of at least 4GB to GPT partitioning, NTFS file system, Default Allocation Size, and by selecting said Windows 7 ISO to install onto the stick. Let Rufus do it's thing.
Keeping the USB stick inserted, fire up the Gigabyte utility. I unchecked the box for the USB3 hotfix as I don't have a Gigabyte board. Select the USB stick in the drop down menu, select NVME hotfix install and let it go it's merry way.
After it had completed, I simply booted off the stick and it was all picked up and installed - you might want to use a USB2 port if you have one to rule out the possibility of incompatibility between the installer and lack of USB3 drivers.
Note: This was done on a Windows 10 machine (my missus' laptop) as when trying this on Windows 7 or 8 the Gigabyte Utility would fail. So if you get some error like "Cannot copy Offline Files" - try the utility on Windows 10.
There you go, i'm now having all the fun of installing circa 300 updates!
