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Aurora R4, boot from PCIe?
Hi all,
I have an AURORA R4, and I'm planning to upgrade my ssd. Actually I'm using a 840 evo, and I wanted to upgrade to an nvme ssd. My motherboard is the x79 model with the i7-4820k. I know that this MB doesn't have an m.2 slot, so I wanted to use an nvme ssd + pci-e adapter combo. Then my question is: does this MB support boot OS from a PCIe device? I wouldn't buy it, and use it just as a storage.
Thanks you
edmoncu
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May 16th, 2019 15:00
Creating a DOS-bootable USB flashdrive using Rufus
To update Intel ME - this can be done under Windows (make sure you're on 64-bit Windows)
All is complete!
edmoncu
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May 16th, 2019 16:00
Updated my previous post...
Summary of the fixes
For A11 BIOS
For Intel ME update
edmoncu
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May 17th, 2019 13:00
Got a birthday surprise in the form of a Samsung 970 EVO 512gb drive. Here are the updated results
edmoncu
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May 19th, 2019 11:00
Ultrafast bootup from power up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlaHc1O31y8
Frisco70
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June 21st, 2019 15:00
Hi edmoncu,
Thanks for the BIOS. Works great! I installed the Samsung 970 EVO as my only drive and BOOT drive.
With the older Processors, there may be a slight performance hit so if you decide to turn off the protection then you can do it easily with InSpectre- be sure to reboot PC after disabling. This is my image when I had the Xeon E5-2665.
* DELL does more to support older technologies than any other company in the world. At some point they do have to keep up with the flow and I don't fault them at all for how they manage their support. People seem to complain about DELL support simply because their PCs are the only ones still performing well after 8+ years. Yes, they've spoiled me and I've saved a lot of money by sticking to Precisions, OptiPlex and Alienware.
Frisco70
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June 22nd, 2019 13:00
Thanks again for the BIOS! I just noticed that it has newest microcode for my Xeon E5-2689 (CPUID 206D6) 08 MAY 2018,snap
jasongoldworthy2020
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October 1st, 2020 07:00
hi guys sorry to dig up an old post does anyone have the modded bios ?
as I can't get any of the links to work any longer
thanks
jasongoldworthy2020
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October 3rd, 2020 09:00
hi @edmoncu do you still have files for this ?
as tiny upload don't work for me for some reason ?
thanks
Cass-Ole
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October 3rd, 2020 13:00
Edmon A11 NVME Files were downloaded from page2 when the links were working, I have four original files saved & uploaded them now at DropBox.com (or join) to download. I can not help w/dropbox or the A11 NVME Bios-related files hosted there, good luck & use at your own risk
Modded BIOS V1 NVME
Modded BIOS V2 Spectre
intel me firmware update aurora r4
FWUpdLcl64
mimilowns
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December 10th, 2020 13:00
Hello,
I followed the procedure and flashed my board with mod_a11modspectrefix.bin (which I think understand also include the MVNE support), I guess it was successful, but I am still not able to see my drive the the boot menu. I put UEFI mode and disabled lecagy support and secure boot.
How can I be sure that the firmeware did update well?
While in legacy mod used samsung tool to copy my source SSD to the MVNE disk, all went well, and 2 partitions have been created (I had only one in my source disque). I guess GPT things but I do not know.
@edmoncu can you help me to diagnose the issue?
Thank you very much,
Mimil
mimilowns
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December 12th, 2020 09:00
I succeed to make it working, all was okay with the provided firmware. I installed a fresh windows.
The issue was that the disk was not listed into the uefi boot menu because the disk was not properly initialized. I booted on my other drive with legacy boot enabled and eufi enabled, deleted all partitions of my mvne disk and converted it to GPT (right click on disk in the windows disk manager).
I installed the samsung mvme drivers.
I created an usb disk to install windows with windows media creation tool, halt, remove my old disk, boot on the usb disk (as still in legacy mode). Mvne disk is seen and can create a partition on it. Then install.
Then mvne disk can boot (because bios is still in uefi + legacy), reinstalled alienware drivers, graphics driver and nvme drivers.
Reboot and disable the legacy mode. Then now your alienware will boot in just a few seconds.
Thank you for the moded firmware!
t3tang
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February 17th, 2021 01:00
Hi edmoncu,
Do you still have link to modded firmware for aurora-r4 A11?
Thanks.
redxps630
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February 18th, 2021 15:00
Just checked link still good.
artrook
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October 2nd, 2022 14:00
Great work and and a fantastic manual but the tynyupload links to the files are no longer working.
Would it be possible to update them?
Many thanks!!!
seraphwh
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December 5th, 2022 00:00
@Cass-Ole had updated the link At 10-03-2020 03:34 PM