Difference: M5A97R20NVMEBIOS (3 vs. 4)

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BIOS for Asus M5A97 R2.0 motherboard with support for NVME SSDs

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Including the SSD driver in the BIOS image (optional, see download in the next section)

You will need:

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  • UBU_v1817.rar (UEFI BIOS Updater) package, which includes MMTool. A tool which lets you include extra driver modules in the existing UEFI firmware.
 
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  • The original BIOS image (M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.CAP)
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  • A USB stick, formatted as FAT32
  • A Windows PC to run MMTool (Running in Wine will probably work as well)
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First, extract the UBU rar file and start MMTool.exe, click on "Load Image" and select the M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.CAP file. Next, Click on the Browse option, next to "Module file". Select the NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs file. In the "Vol. Index" field, enter: 03. Click the Insert button. Save the new BIOS image file as: M5A97R20.CAP
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First, extract the UBU rar file and start MMTool.exe, click on "Load Image" and select the M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.CAP file. Next, Click on the Browse option, next to "Module file". Select the NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs file. In the "Vol. Index" field, enter: 03. Click the Insert button. Save the new BIOS image file as: M5A97R20.CAP
 

Flashing the new BIOS image

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  Please note it is possible to create a BIOS update file which contains drivers for both NVME and Samsung XP941 SSDs. Insert both NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs and samsung-m2-dxe into the BIOS update file and flash it using the flashback method. See also: M5A97R20SamsungBIOS
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Download M5A97R20-BOTH.CAP. Rename this file to M5A97R20.CAP before flashing.
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Download m5a97r20-both.cap. Rename this file to M5A97R20.CAP before flashing.
 

More information

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-- Ivo van Geel - 26 Dec 2017
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-- Ivo van Geel - 03 Nov 2020
 
META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="M5A97R20.CAP" attr="h" comment="M5A97 R2.0 BIOS with NVME driver" date="1594732114" name="M5A97R20.CAP" path="M5A97R20.CAP" size="8390656" user="ivo" version="1"
META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="Flashback_USB_Port.png" attr="h" comment="Image showing USB flashback port" date="1594732257" name="Flashback_USB_Port.png" path="Flashback_USB_Port.png" size="44565" user="ivo" version="1"
META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="UBU_v1817.rar" attr="h" comment="" date="1594732543" name="UBU_v1817.rar" path="UBU_v1817.rar" size="7643138" user="ivo" version="1"
META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="NvmExpressDxe_4.rar" attr="h" comment="" date="1594732571" name="NvmExpressDxe_4.rar" path="NvmExpressDxe_4.rar" size="10665" user="ivo" version="1"
META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.zip" attr="h" comment="" date="1594732745" name="M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.zip" path="M5A97-R20-ASUS-2603.zip" size="3172968" user="ivo" version="1"
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META FILEATTACHMENT attachment="m5a97r20-both.cap" attr="h" comment="M5A97R20-BOTH.CAP" date="1604401025" name="m5a97r20-both.cap" path="m5a97r20-both.cap" size="8390656" user="ivo" version="1"
 
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