It is (sometimes) possible to preload a driver (depending on driver) but nothing I do enables W7 to recognsie the NVMe at install. So I have been attempting to get to the bottom of this, again playing with BIOS settings, updating BIOS and using the Win 7 USB tool but it does not work. Plus for some reason I can't click the reply/quote buttons with my laptop, ah well. Hi sorry it takes me so long to reply, I'm really busy at work and have been away a lot. I might try that again incase the image is not spot on.Ĭould maybe be the NVMe but it is detected in BIOS, albeit not with UEFI prefix on the boot screens. Or the NVMe driver provided on the W7 USB toolkit? It did show the 8GB USB stick though!ĭoes anybody know the version of IRST on the m/b cd? I was also able to install a version of the Intel RST driver (v15 something, last W7 compatible) but it did not help. I'm also considering flashing the BIOS from F4 to F5h as it says improved NVMe support, but the descriptions on each BIOS update are lacking so not sure if it helps and I don't like flashing unnessecarily. I think it is either the driver for the toolkit, or I need a driver from Samsung, but all they have is installer drivers not the native files. Have tried default settings etc, nothing. Got USB devices recognised at install screen but again no SSD! In fact one of the USB devices likes to pretenf its a HDD so it was listed as an install option (8GB.)Īgain afterwards I played around with BIOS settings, just can't seem to get this to work.ĭidn't bother with xHCI hand-off setting as thats for USB only?ĭisabling CSM meant that the USB would not boot (as it also had the UEFI: prefix) so changed that back. This looked like it would solve the problem, it creates a bootable image onto USB stick using the files from the W7 CD plus it seems additional drivers for USB compatibility (xHCI I asusme from reading around). So Gigabyte e-support pointed me to a W7 install USB toolkit from their support page. Also this reminds me there is no options for NVMe Configuration, just displays the drive info (less info displayed than when Intel RST Premium is enabled). I just assumed it was because the m/b realises that its on board. I have noticed there is no prefix before the NVMe SSD. Last night after getting USB working I was able to consistently boot UEFI: USB stick, in fact I disconnected all SATA devices so it was only UEFI: USB and Samsung SSD. On the first night I started getting the UEFI prefix on some of the boot devices (eg UEFI: Optical, Samsung SSD, P0: Storage HDD, P2: Optical) after switching SATA controller from AHCI to Intel RST premium (and back again when that made no difference - disappeared SATA devices form installer). It did say can’t install windows to GPT so might have legacy settings on. Maybe bios settings, UEFI is new territory for me. I know W7 isn’t supported but others have got it to work. (There are only a few compatible with Z370 and W7). I’m wondering if it’s driver compatibility with W7, although it states the IRST driver is W7 compatible. To get drivers etc I’m downloading to usb stick via laptop and then putting onto storage HDD using linux (runs from another usb stick).Īs a side note I tried using mini-xp for that but got BSOD. I tried the usb 3 driver from the mb cd but it locked everything up. In all casss the BIOS detects all devices.Īlso USB connections are not recognised at pre-install. I also tried the intel RST premium with optane option in Bios but this saw all SATA drives disappear at pre-install stage (yes still installing from disc.). Both times it looked like they were loading but came back saying it didn’t work and to contact vendor. Have tried loading Intel RST at pre install stage from motherboard cd (unknown version) and from intel. I’m having trouble installing windows 7 (from install disc) as it does not detect the M2 SSD.
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