Hello,
I have an X99 Deluxe II and i'm having trouble running my Samsung 960Pro correctly.
Specifically, drive is recognized and bootable.. but no matter what i do, Samsung Magician 'recognizes' it as a PCI express 2.0 x4, resulting in a maximum read of 1.8K (well below its potential). Ideally, it should be run as PCI express 3.0 x4.
Now, to help anyone out:
- Latest drivers, so it's not that. BIOS, OS, the Nvme itself, all up to date.
- My drive is mounted on a platform that's installed ON the PCIExpress slots. It is -not- installed in the motherboard's vertical socket.
(have tried two different platforms just to be sure, my old one and the bundle-included HyperX module, same issue).
- Have had the same problem whether i mounted the drive at PCIEx16_3 (slot 4 going down), or PCIEx16_5 (slot 6).
- In case you're wondering about lanes: GPU at PCIEx16_1 (slot 1), sound card at PCIEx16_2 (slot 3). Everything else unoccupied.
- In the BIOS, under "NB PCI-E Configuration", all slots are set to run as gen3
- In the BIOS, under 'OnBoard Devices Configuration', "U.2_2 Bandwidth" was set to Auto when i tried mounting it at (slot 4)PCIEx16_3.
- In the BIOS, under 'OnBoard Devices Configuration', "PCIEx16_5 Bandwidth" was set to 4x when i tried mounting it at (slot 6)PCIEx16_5.
(tried 8x, wouldn't even see the drive. So at x4).
- Was advised elsewhere to turn the SLI switch to 3, mount gpu at 1, nvme at 3, sound card at 5, see if that forced the damned thing to run it at the proper speed. Again same issue, shows as 2.0 x4..
Am i doing something wrong? Have had this drive on a different X99 chipset mobo, i know it can run at 3.0 x4 just fine.
Any help would be appreciated.