I want Win10 to boot on the NVME like normal without me confirming the boot disk thru Clover everytime. I originally got my transplanted NVME working by just copying NvmExpressDxe-64.efi from \EFI\CLOVER\drivers-Off\drivers64\drivers64UEFI\ to \EFI\CLOVER\drivers64\ and \EFI\CLOVER\drivers64UEFI. I encourage anyone reading this to read and read Plawerth's post as using his file structure helped me narrow down where to copy the NvmExpressDxe-64.efi file. NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method) (10)
Second, circling back, we have this post by Plawerth that actually summarizes how to structure the Clover USB: NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method) (11) There are 2 posts in this thread that I need to acknowledge.įirst, this post by Charlie confirming that it can be done: NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method) After many hours of trial and error, Iwas not and still am not able to get Clover to read my USB Win10 install.
I downloaded the tool, burned a USB and fumbled around with it and was able to read the transplanted WD NVME on the first try.sweet! But it was the Win10 install from the AMD rig and I want the system to be fully activated so I attempted to get Clover to read my USB Win10 UEFI install media. The following is after around 10 to 12 hrs of research:Īfter much searching, I finally chanced upon this site and this post that talks about using Clover, a Hackintosh tool to provide UEFI boot. As the updated BIOS doesn't support NVME storage, I had to get creative with my kiddy-scripting, read: combining best practices and trial and error them into a workable solution. I added a GTX 1060 3GB and a WD 256 NVME SSD on a PCI-e adapter. I got a barebones system and needed to add my own GPU and drives.
I ended up with a full system with its OEM case for around $600 CDN:ĭual Xeon X5680 3.33 GHz But not being an IT professional, I don't get access to this level of equipment until they come cheap on the used market. Much smarter guys have done this awhile back and I'm just catching up. Hacking the HP Z800 Xeon motherboard into a standard case But by this time, my mind was already going a mile a second and I've already plunged into this project.įirst off, I was inspired by this post to attempt this. Being blinded by the prospect of playing with new hardware, I didn't consider some important specifics, like UEFI vs legacy BIOS on these systems. Initially, I only needed a Z600 in its small form factor to play with but I kept reading about the slightly sexier Z800. The Z600 and Z800 offers dual Xeon's and room for lotsa ram and there's a batch on sale locally. Anyway, I came upon these HP workstations that have server innards but in workstation form factor. I always wanted to try server grade equipment but was always put off by their price and footprint you don't get much room to install racks in a condo. Again this is not an issue for my media library mainly for Plex. Some I fixed thru tutorials and regedit, but others just won't go away.namely, IO and write errors to my array which is being updated with Seagate 8TB backup/SMR drives that are cheap TB-per-$ but slow as hell in write performance. After the recent Win10 1809 update, I started to notice the system starting to hiccup and I noticed a lot of errors within Event Viewer. I've spent quite a bit of time reading about it over the past couple of years and despite its slow write speeds, it serves its purpose as a Plex Media Server and NextCloud host.
This is all managed under Win10 Pro and Windows Storage Spaces. I have a home lab server running a AMD FX8320 w/ 32GB ram, a M1015 crossflashed to LSI 9211-8i HBA IT mode hosting 13 drives for around 36TB or 24TB usable under Parity mode. I have been dabbling in hardware and software mods for around 20 yrs and I know this is by no means difficult but as a DIY'er this is one of the more daunting yet doable mods at a low price and I believe the bang-for-buck is right up there for an hobbyist looking for something to do over the winter.Ī little more background.
Load & Boot from Win10 on NVME/PCI-e on HP will be part one of a multi-part series covering my attempt to modify a HP Z800 workstation into file, plex and web server housed in a XL-ATX full size tower with 14 drives. I ended up writing it out on steemit but I'll paste it here. I had a summary written here first but lost it. Though my questions and inquiries were not addressed by any single post, I was able to piece together enough information to get this working on my HP Z800. I joined this forum to thank OP, this post and all the contributors.