After you installed the 970 you should have turned raid off in bios before booting with new windows install. Now with raid off you will have to reinstall windows in the advanced bios option. It will take awhile.
Yep. I think the option for RAID vs AHCI has to be configured before booting into Windows for the first time. Do you still have your Win 10 image saved outside your NVMe stick? I recommend wiping your boot drive, configuring for AHCI in BIOS page, then loading windows and booting in. In that order.
You should be able to use msconfig to boot to safe mode, then reboot to the BIOS to turn RAID off. Shut the computer down and then boot back to safe mode. Turn off safe mode, reboot and the OS should pick up the NVME drivers with everything working normally. I have done that on an XPS 8930 and an Inspiron 5432 with no problems.
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November 26th, 2020 07:00
After you installed the 970 you should have turned raid off in bios before booting with new windows install. Now with raid off you will have to reinstall windows in the advanced bios option. It will take awhile.
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November 27th, 2020 04:00
Yep. I think the option for RAID vs AHCI has to be configured before booting into Windows for the first time. Do you still have your Win 10 image saved outside your NVMe stick? I recommend wiping your boot drive, configuring for AHCI in BIOS page, then loading windows and booting in. In that order.
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December 20th, 2020 12:00
You should be able to use msconfig to boot to safe mode, then reboot to the BIOS to turn RAID off. Shut the computer down and then boot back to safe mode. Turn off safe mode, reboot and the OS should pick up the NVME drivers with everything working normally. I have done that on an XPS 8930 and an Inspiron 5432 with no problems.