Veriton M4640G with PCIe NVMe SSD Adapter Installed Hangs

boundlessdata

Veriton M4640G hangs when booting with StarTech x4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter installed in the slot closest to the CPU. I'm assuming that is the PCIe X16 slot. It appears to be hanging on the BIOS before it ever gets to any drive. Before I started this process, I updated the BIOS to R01-B3.

I know the PCIe adapter and Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 work because I tried installing it in a Veriton M4630G. The disk was accessible in Windows but was not able to boot from it.

Any ideas?

ttttt

@boundlessdata,
Have you tried to reset BIOS to default and removed the original boot drive?

boundlessdata

The BIOS update instructions included selecting the default settings. I did not remove the original drive because the plan is to clone the HDD to NVMe. I also installed this same adapter and NVMe in another model Acer which did not require me to remove the HDD in order to access the NVMe.

billsey

Almost no PCIe cards support booting from them. What does StarTech say about the hang?

ttttt

@boundlessdata,
If I am not mistaken, SAMSUNG has its own cloning software.
The reason that I asked you to remove the original boot drive is to avoid the confusion of having two Windows Boot Manager at the same time.
I had migrated Win 10 from my PCIe x2 M.2 NVme SSD to a PCIe x4 M.2 NVMe SSD a few months ago. If you go read my thread dated July 6th, should be around Page 13 here, 
another thread :

How To Delete Unwanted OS From UEFI BIOS? dated July 16, around Page 11 here.

That should give you some information.

boundlessdata

That is not true. It depends on the BIOS in the computer. There are supposedly 3 possible solutions for legacy BIOS. Either modify the BIOS like in this article http://blog.techquility.net/booting-to-samsung-970-evo-nvme-m-2-ssd-on-asus-b85m-g-motherboard/. The second option is NVMe boot using Clover
https://www.win-raid.com/t2375f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-without-modding-your-UEFI-BIOS-Clover-EFI-bootloader-method.html. The third is to purchase a Samsung 950 Pro which has a boot rom built in. None of these options appealed to me so I gave up and reluctantly purchased a SATA SSD.

boundlessdata

@ttttt
I returned to the site with a SATA SSD. The Samsung Data Migration cloning software would not clone the HDD to the new SSD. I removed the HDD and left the SSD. The SSD was not recognized until secure boot was disabled in the BIOS. After a fresh install of Windows 10, I connected the HDD via USB and copied the data. A lot to go through for a machine that probably should be retired.