NVMe boot drive from Z97 chipset

pc-guy · 15 Jan 2020 at 13:30

Anyone has any experience of booting off a NVMe drive from a Z97 chipset.

Just curious to see if I have scope to stick a NVMe drive in my aging pc and use it as boot drive.

I would have to stick the NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter card as the board has no m.2 slot

b00merang69 · 15 Jan 2020 at 13:37

AFAIK Z97 yes bootable, Z87 not all Vendors updated Bios to allow this (Asus for example did not, I think ASrock did) but modded Bioses fixed that.

pc-guy · 15 Jan 2020 at 13:50

b00merang69 said:
AFAIK Z97 yes bootable, Z87 not all Vendors updated Bios to allow this (Asus for example did not, I think ASrock did) but modded Bioses fixed that.

all Z97 supports boot off PCIe? I got a asrock Z97m Pro4 board.

Just want to eek out the life span of the box for a few years before plunging into the rebuild route.

edit: since BIOS 2.1 the board has had NVMe support. great stuff.

b00merang69 · 15 Jan 2020 at 13:56

AFAIK ASrock will boot on Z87 onward, My Asus Z87 will not without modded Bios but Asus and all other Vendors Z97 will.