Hey all,
So my question is if it's even possible to mod the Alienware Aurora R4 A11 BIOS for the x79 chipset to enable native PCI-e x4 and NVMe support? For reference, I'm using a PCI-E x4 to M.2 adapter with a Samsung 960 pro 500gb. Windows recognizes the drive when I boot off my SATA drive, but I want my PCI-E drive to be my os drive and the BIOS can't see it, the windows uefi bootloader can't boot from it and no settings in my bios change anything, it's constantly just giving me an error message "Windows can't boot, files missing" with the option to try again.
Thanks in advance,
IF AFUWIN you linked works as you suggested in second post, then no one should risk using AFUDOS w/ /GAN instead of the AFUWIN method
Since /GAN can mess things up pretty badly if it goes sideways.
Thanks for posting your mod BIOS, I'm sure it will help many users
Updated BIOS file containing the following fix
Based on A11
- Native NVMe booting via PCIe adaptor
- Microcode fix for Spectre bug
- Updated NIC firmware
- Updated RST firmware to support RAID TRIM
Please refer to the link of the BIOS file as well as AFUDOS (need to run natively on USB-BOOT DOS and not DOS Box)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...7579325788
Aside from that, here's the update to fix Intel ME bug
Please refer to the link of the Intel ME FW updater
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...2204820694
You may run it in Windows (x64) by typing
FWUpdLcl64.exe -f 8.1.70.1590_1.5MB_PRD_RGN.bin
I've upgraded to a Samsung 970 EVO 512gb and experienced ultra-fast bootup here!
Here's my video of how fast my Aurora R4 boots off an NVMe
AFUWin @ Main BIOS block image checked only is all you need to reflash to reflash BIOS region (Where you edit in the NVME mod edit)
So you can safely flash your NVME mod BIOS via AFUWinGUI if you want, or via AFUDOS (Just don't use /GAN), all you need is /P = program main block
(05-20-2019, 11:35 PM)Lost_N_BIOS Wrote: [ -> ]AFUWin @ Main BIOS block image checked only is all you need to reflash to reflash BIOS region (Where you edit in the NVME mod edit)
So you can safely flash your NVME mod BIOS via AFUWinGUI if you want, or via AFUDOS (Just don't use /GAN), all you need is /P = program main block
I CONFIRM this BIOS works. Unable to flash without using FreeDOS bootable USB. Also did have to include /GAN ... was quite worried but it worked. Cleared my Service Tag#, which I re-entered. Installed the new Samsung 970 EVO then used Samsung mitigation software to clone after installing the Samsung NVME Windows 10 driver. Removed my older SATA SSD (850 EVO) after shutdown and the system booted nicely from the 970 EVO.