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T5600 with PCIe based SSD to boot.
Can anyone confirm or deny if the Dell Precision T5600 is or is not able to boot from a PCIe based SSD? I think the BIOS has to be fully UEFI and support NVMe. I'd like to use the Samsung SM951 M.2 on a PCIe adapter to get maximum mb/s. Anyone have any experience with this?
MatteBili
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November 16th, 2016 22:00
Hi Brian,
Just aquired a used T5600 with not disks and tried to add a Plextor MP8eY 512GB and 256GB.
No luck there.
The machine is running BIOS A14.
The symptons when tarting the machine:
• Plextor Logo flashes on screen
• lights on SSD flash several times
• BIOS Progress Bar sometimes stops at 50% or 100%
• machine becomes unresponsive with POST code LED 2 on (manual states PCI device configuration)
• Num-Lock & Scroll-Lock do not work anymore
I tried giving it some time, but after 30mins or so , still no action.
UEFI or legacy boot , no matter which setting in BIOS, it wont work.
Further I even cannot enter the BIOS settings with the SSD plugged in.
I tried every PCIe slot and plugged in the extra SATA power cable on the SSD.
I just confirmed that the SSD is working by plugging it in my HP MicroServer G8.
Which by the way, has only a PCIe v2.0 slot, though Plextor wants PCIe v3.0
I am happy for any input or suggestions.
Best,
Matthias