What OptiPlex 3010 form factor do you have (Desktop, Mini-Tower, Small Form Factor)?
With rare exceptions, booting from a Samung 970 EVO (or any NVMe SSD) requires the SSD be initialized to GPT (MBR won't work) and BIOS be set for UEFI.
You can use Windows built-in Disk Management to check whether a drive has been initialized to GPT or MBR. Here's one guide on how to do it.
Someone on the win-raid forums got an OptiPlex 3010 to boot from a NVMe SSD using Clover here (there's like 3 or 4 posts by Plawerth). Seems the 3010's UEFI is missing something that Clover supplies to detect NVMe boot drives.
Frankly, I'd just try a Samsung 950 PRO, enable Legacy Option ROMs in the BIOS settings to pick up the 950, probably initialize/format the 950 MBR since it matches Legacy mode (GPT might work), and hopefully be done with it, rather than mess with Clover (or DUET). The Samsung 950 PRO is special - it contains a Legacy Option ROM.
speedstep
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November 23rd, 2018 08:00
NVME PCI-E booting requires Chipset and BIOS support. You have neither.
This is NEVER an option for the 3010.
Rowan529
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November 23rd, 2018 08:00
Have you tried changing the SATA Operation Mode to RAID? Most prepackeged NVME drives come with that automatically enabled, might be worth a crack.
rjohnr
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November 23rd, 2018 11:00
there is no raid option .
i hoped a bios update will do the trick.
thanks.
Techgee
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What OptiPlex 3010 form factor do you have (Desktop, Mini-Tower, Small Form Factor)?
With rare exceptions, booting from a Samung 970 EVO (or any NVMe SSD) requires the SSD be initialized to GPT (MBR won't work) and BIOS be set for UEFI.
You can use Windows built-in Disk Management to check whether a drive has been initialized to GPT or MBR. Here's one guide on how to do it.
Techgee
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November 25th, 2018 22:00
Someone on the win-raid forums got an OptiPlex 3010 to boot from a NVMe SSD using Clover here (there's like 3 or 4 posts by Plawerth). Seems the 3010's UEFI is missing something that Clover supplies to detect NVMe boot drives.
Frankly, I'd just try a Samsung 950 PRO, enable Legacy Option ROMs in the BIOS settings to pick up the 950, probably initialize/format the 950 MBR since it matches Legacy mode (GPT might work), and hopefully be done with it, rather than mess with Clover (or DUET). The Samsung 950 PRO is special - it contains a Legacy Option ROM.
rjohnr
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November 29th, 2018 23:00
thanks for the links!
i have desktop
have tested 950 pro and works fine wish all samsung nvmes had legacy boot support,was hopping for a bios update or a bios mod (https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS.html ) but its not easy to extract bios from dells bios .exe update ,update it and then reflash it.