I recently did a $5,000 USD Monster PC build
that I called Alan Lake and you can check
that out in the description below or in the
annotation on the screen now.
And I did come into some trouble with the
Samsung 950 Pro M.2 Drives.
Stick around to see how I made them work with
my Z170 board.
So the first thing that you’ll see when
you start up your computer is to press F2
or the Delete key and that will get you into
the Bios or the UEFI setup.
Once you’re in there you’ll be presented
with this screen.
And what you’ll need to do is press F6 to
go to the advanced setup.
Now the first thing you’ll want to do is
go to the Advanced Menu and go to Storage.
Once you’re there check that the SATA Controller
is set to Enabled; the SATA Mode is AHCI (almost
didn’t get that) and the Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T.
mode is set to Enabled as well, and the SATA3
Mode is set to AHCI as well.
Then if you scroll down the list you’ll
that the M1, M2 and M3 slots are not populated.
So our next stop will be the Boot Menu.
So you’ll see my system’s already configured
to boot from the M.2 drive and you can see
this by seeing that Windows Boot Manager is
Boot Option 1
Because we’re starting from scratch what
you’ll need to do is scroll all the way
down to the bottom of this page and choose
CSM which stands for Compatibility Support
Module.
Once you’re in there you’ll see CSM has
Enabled.
Now in order to boot from a UEFI USB Drive
with Windows 10 on it, we need to select this
and change it to Disabled.
Now if you’d like to know how to make a
UEFI Bootable Windows 10 installation USB
Drive, then leave me a comment down below
and if I get enough interest I’ll make a
new video on that.
Now the other 3 options that you see here,
you will need to change those to UEFI only.
This will allow things like your 4K Monitor,
if you have one, to support displaying the
Bios or UEFI in 4K resolution.
So once you’ve hit Disabled on CSM, we can
now go to Exit and Save Changes and Exit.
Now make sure that you’ve got your USB Drive
plugged in with your UEFI Bootable Windows
10 installation and press F11 to go into the
Boot Menu.
Now from here you can choose USB Drive and
you can start your Windows 10 installation.
Your M2 Drive will appear and everything will
be great.
Now after you have done the installation what
you will need to do is go back into the Bios
and change the CSM setting to Enabled.
Save changes and Exit and you’re away.
I thought this shit was meant to be easy!
Now I didn’t realise there was so much you
had to do to make these M.2 Drives bootable
and it took a little bit of research actually
to find out how to make this work on the Z170
motherboard.
Fair enough, this technology is really, really
fresh and really, really new, so there’s
not a lot of documentation out there on how
to make these work.
So hopefully this has helped you with your
M.2 Drive and your Z170 board.
Well, that’s it for another video.
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