XPS 8900 and Samsung 950 PRO Boot sequence problem

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• XPS 8900 and Samsung 950Pro

  My 8900SE XPS arrived yesterday and a 256 GB Samsung Pro 950. The factory installed 256 GB SSD with M.2 slot was replaced by the Samsung 950 Pro. When I started the PC and check the BIOS, the Pro 950 was not visible in the BIOS.

  Is there a setting in the BIOS of XPS8900 I need to change to make the SSD 950Pro visible?

  It seems that several people here have been able to implement the 950 as a boot drive for windows 10. I just can't understand what I'm doing wrong.

  See if http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19657565?pi21953=1 is useful;

• Dell XPS 13 2015 and update of Samsung 950 PRO m2

  When I ordered my Dell XPS 13 May of this year, I ordered it with a disc of 256 GB knowing that I would upgrade eventually to a disk of 512 GB once the new discs of NVMe m2 were out. I didn't do well capture the variations in m2 and when I pre-ordered the 512 GB Samsung 950 PRO NVMe I expected to pop in and go. No luck. I should have known that they would not make it as simple as that... :-(

  The drive is compatible physically of course, but has the "M" key edge connector, while the drive I pulled the connector edge key "B & M. I am running the BIOS A05 on the Dell, but he can't see the PRO 950 drive at BIOS level. The integrated test tool indicates "no hard disk". If this seems to be a BIOS problem.

  Anyone have any ideas? Is it a question of Dell, he argues with a new BIOS update? Or it will never work because the XPS 13 is not compatible with this generation of pilots of M2? Looks like I need to go back to what happens, but if Dell eventually allows, I may buy it again.

  If it won't work, any suggestions on a 512 GB drive that works? Samsung XP941 or XP951 will work? An idea about the difference between the two (the XP951 is $50 + more).

  UPDATE: this player is not compatible with the Dell XPS 13 and probably will never be because of energy consumption (5-7 watts). You just don't want a storage device that power in your laptop. The Samsung SM951 512 GB is the best player at the moment.

  For the record, I was able to get the 950 is recognized Pro to install windows 10 on simply turn on the legacy startup options.  Once turned on my windows install USB he saw as installable media.  After installing the drive had an EFI boot sector, so I was able to disable legacy startup.

• Cannot install Windows 10 on T460s with Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD

  I can't install Windows 10 on my T460s brand new. It was delivered with Windows 7.

  1. The original Windows 7 starts fine
  2. I started the installer of Windows 10 bootable USB
  3. I deleted all the partitions on the system and then tried to create a new
  4. The error message is displayed:

  Windows cannot be installed on this drive (show details)

  Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the drive controller is enabled in the BIOS menu.

  SSD: Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD, MZ-VKV512

  BIOS Lenovo: 1.11

  Windows ISO 10: en_windows_10_n_multiple_editions_version_1511_updated_apr_2016_x64_dvd_8710592.iso

  Check in the BIOS, UEFI boot is selected for the startup to STARTUP tab.

  You must also reset the configuration of the disk on the 950.

  1. start the Windows 10 ISO

  2. launch the command prompt (Admin)

  3. type Diskpart

  4 locate the SSD in the volumes

  5. type Diskpart/select volume # (SSD)

  6. type Diskpart / clean

  Output

  Start the Windows 10 ISO

  Installing Windows 10 should now work.

• Alienware X 51 R3 upgrade HDD Samsung 950 Pro - 512GB

  I got cloned and installed the Samsung 950 PRO. I can boot windows 10 on the Samsung drive when the HARD drive is not connected. When I try to re - install the drive HARD original system returns to this drive during startup and boots into windows 10. The boot priority is set to the default values, something like this:

  Network

  CD ROM

  USB KEY

  Hard drive HDD1

  I'm guessing that their must be original tosh 1 TB HDD1 and new Samsung car and I just need to point to the right pair where the HDD1 drive is on the priority list? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  HolyCow99

  Are you in UEFI or Legacy mode to start?

  If you have an external USB enclosure, best thing to do is to clear the disc rotation while it is booted from the SSD.

• M.2 SSD in X 51 R3 - Samsung 950 Pro? -Need help

  RE: X 51 R3 - Samsung 950 Pro

  Alienware 51 R3 x I and when I was installing my SSD, I saw the port of m2. I ordered a Samsung 950 Pro, installed, but nothing.

  The computer does not start. I get the white screen with the blinking cursor.

  Repair CD / USB do not work.

  When I remove the m2, the computer boots fine with my SSD hooked using Sata ports.

  I heard that there is an SSD of M.2 PM951 m2 stock.

  Does this mean that the Samsung 950 Pro does not work?

  Nope - SATA III is still slower than 2xPCIe 3.0 lanes.

  The Samsung 850 m2 will probably reach around 520-550 MB/s Seq reading due to the limitations of the record Protocol and SATA port. You can see that I'm reading Seq 1500 + Mbps even with only two active channels. The 950 NVMe Pro is able to 2500 MB/s speed with 4-way active reading.

  The only place where having 4 lanes from 2 lanes for NVMe Pro 950 issues is in sequential read speed. The write speeds and Random access doesn't seem to be limited given that the max drive speed doesn't seem to go beyond the bandwidth of 2-way.

• HP ENVY 15-j142na: HP ENVY 15-j142na Samsung 950 PRO NVMe m2 update?

  Support HP ENVY 15-j142na Samsung 950 PRO NVMe m2 dose?

  Negative results. There a WSSD but it is the older form factor, not m2 and even the old player of WSSD type may not be bootable is a cache acceleration only.

• Alienware 17 R3 with Samsung 950 Pro

  After receiving my new Alienware, I decided to install a Samsung 950 Pro. After a lot of sweat, blood and tears and TONS of frustration, I was able to get 10 Windows installed as well as most of my games. I felt he was finally sure to re - install the HARD disk supplied with the notebook 1 TB.

  Boy I was wrong, he refuses to detect the PRO 950 and refused to start at all. I have the 1 TB back out, just so that I could start again under the windows installed on the Pro 950. And before you say anything yes I disable the startup of windows for the 1 TB option in the Bios.

  Hello

  Engineering investigated the compatibility of this SSD is apparently not compatible with this model, so will cause this type of erorres, among others.

  Here is the list of SSD M2 readers compatible with 15R2, 17R3 and Aurora R5:

  SSD 1 TB Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280

  M.2 SSD 2280 X SANDISK 400 512 G

  SSD 256G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280

  LITEON CV3 128G M2 2280 SSD

  SSD 512G Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280

  HYNIX 256G M2 2280 SSD SC308

  M.2 SSD 2280 X SANDISK 400 128 G

  SSD 256G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280

  SSD 256 Hynix PC305 PCIe NVMe 2280 G

  HYNIX 128G M2 2280 SSD SC308

  M.2 SSD 2280 X SANDISK 400 256 G

  SSD 512G LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280

  HYNIX SC308 512G SSD 2280 M2

  SSD 512 Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe 2280 G

  SSD 1 TB LiteOn CX2 PCIe NVMe 2280

  SSD 1 TB Samsung PM951 PCIe NVMe 2280

  LITEON CV3 512G SSD 2280 M2

  SSD 512G Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280

  SSD 1 TB Toshiba XG3n PCIe NVMe 2280

  256G LiteOn CX2 NVMe 2280 PCIe SSD

  LITEON CV3 256G M2 2280 SSD

• Disorders of XPS 8900 install Win 7 Pro

  Hey guys,.

  We just bought a 8900 XPS for our sign company and unfortunately, we have some legacy software to use Windows 7 (in collaboration with printers vinyl dark).  I can't have it installed at all.  The problem is that I spend just before the drive selection to choose which drive to format and install Windows on, it stops and gives me this error:

  "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
  Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD drive, you can remove it safely for this step. »

  This is where I'm stuck at 100%.

  The PC comes with 10 Windows and bios version 2.1.0.

  So far I have tried:

  All facilities have been considered as GPT UEFI BIOS AHCI and secure boot off and using the USB2 port on the back for the memory stick and two separate memory sticks were also considered.  ISO bootable has been doing with rufus 2.7

  BIOS 2.1.0
  No Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1
  Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1

  Bios update to 2.1.3 (most recent)
  No Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1
  Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1
  Updated the (via NTlite) Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1 (to include all x 64 available pilots)http://i.imgur.com/pzCKSiH.png

  Reset the bios to default settings
  Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1
  Updated the (via NTlite) Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1 (to include all x 64 available pilots)

  Install the new drive WD Black Hard 2 to (to avoid the TPG 10 windows install)
  Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1
  Updated the (via NTlite) Windows 7 Pro x 64 SP1 (to include all x 64 available pilots)

  What makes me pull my hair, it's that WinPE can SEE AND ACCESS the CD/DVD and hard disk existing as 3 USB ports.

  I don't understand which driver he could possibly ask.  Any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to get this machine running as soon as POSSIBLE.

  Thank you

  beamermt79

  Its probably something to deal with the UEFI.  There in BIOS, any possibility to use both UEFI and 'Legacy' or BIOS? Or maybe when you turn on the computer to select the USB boot option, there may be something classified heritage and you try to boot from USB.

  Sorry I should have mentioned that I also tried both UEFI and legacy.

  I managed to install Windows 7 Pro x 64 on the 8900 XPS.

  Which, in my view, the problem is that the motherboard has only one USB3 controller.  The background has "USB 2" ports, but I think they're going to a USB 3 controller that is causing the problem.  I think that it can cause a kind of mode error limbo where WindowsPE is confusing because it is not purely a USB 2 port, because Windows 7 is not compatible USB 3 out of the box.  I tried to load the drivers USB 3 when he asked for the pilots, but it did not accept the drivers regardless of the reason.

  The only way I could find to install was to use a DVD version.  The DVD is instantly working and I did not load additional drivers during installation.

  I must point out that I had to burn a CD with the extracted versions of install it the driver for the USB ports to work properly when I was on Windows.  I couldn't get my mouse to work at all, and I had to navigate via the keyboard only.  Installing drivers Intel USB 3 solved the problem right away though and I don't seem to have problems after the installation of their.  I also had .net Framework 4.6.1 and Kernel - Mode Driver Framework 1.11 installed on there as well as some of the Intel drivers required them.

• Compatibility M.2 SanDisk SSD X 400 with new XPS 8900 and cloning issues

  I just got a new 8900 XPS running and ordered a Sandisk X 400 1 TB SATA III M.2 drive for her.  I know, adding that a PCIE SSD with adapter would be much faster.  But I'm not a gamer and concentrate more on edge backup and storage.  And the new Sandisk card gets good reviews and should give a nice speed boost.  This will be my first attempt at cloning of a new boot disk and install an SSD.  I went through the forum and found some good information.  A few questions...

  One of the sons said that an SSD with the B and M keys (like this one) may not work.  Searching the Web I found no comments from anyone who has tried this particular SSD in a new XPS desktop.  No compatibility issues?

  Another thread has been posted problems with starting the XPS 8900, when you add a new disk, but the updated BIOS to 2.1.3 seemed to be the solution.  I confirmed that my machine already has this version of BIOS.  Once again, any concerns?

  My plan is to clone again SSD in the computer using Acronis or other software, then set as the boot drive in BIOS.  Is there a reason to delete the operating system of the C: drive, thereafter, or can just stay as a backup if problems occur with the SSD?

  I have already installed a few programs including MSOffice 2007 and Windows Essentials, so I can use the machine, but otherwise it is always very clean.  When I do the clone will be these OK execution since the SSD without much messing around?  And they will have to be uninstalled from the HARD drive?

  Thank you!

  X 8900-2508BLK
  I7-6700 / 3.4 GHz
  16 MB of RAM
  1 TB HARD DRIVE

  I'll answer some of my own questions.  The M400 Sandisk SSD drive arrived today and I found a screw M2x4 at Ace Hardware to install it with.  Installation was super simple.  I used a pair of pliers to hold the small screws in place and then a Jewelers screwdriver to fix it.

  He seemed to take more time for the first start that made me nervous, but all loaded without any problems.  I rebooted and that you press F2 to get into the BIOS and the new SSD was there!  And then let the computer loads Windows and checked Device Manager and it's still there!

  As expected the reader not yet appear in Windows because it was not formatted.  I used under Computer Management disk management to initialize the disk.  And now I have a new drive I: 935 GB free.

  So far so good.  Seems like the M400 Sandisk should work perfectly.

  Next step is to clone.  Always blazing new territory for me... when the drive is cloned it will remain I: or it will be C:?

• EliteBook 850 G1: Elitebook 850 G1 and Samsung 850 PRO 512 GB SSD

  Hello

  I recently bought a new Elitebook 850 G1 a retailer authorized HP here in Germany. It turns out be a very fine machine so far.

  Just a little thing I noticed is the following:

  I exchanged the original 250 GB SSD (A Samsung 840) supplied with the notebook for a Samsung 850 PRO 512 GB SSD.

  It made me lose the UEFI chart UI system diagnosis. Only the base system diagnostics are available (similar to BACK black and white screen).

  Apparently BIOS EliteBook doesn't "recognize" the PRO 850 as supported even if the player works absolutely fine in laptop computer, running a new installation of Windows Pro 64 bit smoothly 8.1.

  Is there some sort of whitelist of device in the BIOS? Is it possible to get other permutation Diagnostics advanced system back to the original SSD? Maybe some update BIOS?

  Already, I run the latest BIOS of G1 EliteBook 850 as available by HP driver and download Web site.

  Not that this is a crucial issue given that the laptop works well, but it's kind of worries me nonetheless.

  Thanks for responding.

  Diagnostics UEFI advanced is actually contained in a service partition on the hard drive so unless you cloned all partitions on the old disk you may have failed. Fortunately, it can be downloaded and installed on the hard drive or you can even make a thumb drive bootable UEFI.

  http://h20564.www2.HP.com/hpsc/SWD/public/detail?sp4ts.Oid=5405106&swItemId=ob_125304_1&swEnvOid=4158

  If it's 'the Answer' please click on 'Accept as Solution' to help others find it.

• Slow writes PERC H700 and Samsung 850 PRO SSD

  I saw several posts about this, but don't see a solution.

  I have a few servers R710 with H700 controllers. I have installed Samsung 1 TB SSD Pro 850 and see writing very slow compared to other performance SSD tested in one box, simply slow in general. SAMSUNG SSD are ~ 500 MB/s in both sense when connected to the stand-alone desktop computer, but ~ 500 MB/s read and ~ 45 MB/s, writes when it is connected to a server.

  1. 1 x SSD in RAID 0 - no redundancy, just to test the performance. I tried all combinations of memory cache writeback and read before possible setting (enabled, disabled) and has never had more than ~ 45 MB/s, writing.

  2. 6 x SSD in RAID 5 with all possible combinations of never getting write cache over ~ 110 MB/s, writing.

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  What is the problem with the H700 and Samsung SSD controllers? No one knows how to fix?

  Any other R710 compatible controller, which do not have this problem? Might be able, JBOD? I also tried a stop the controller PCIe Board without a bit of luck (bottom of basket or any compatibility issues)

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  The controller is a latest firmware and the BIOS and other components. Used Dell Repository Manager iDRAC discovery and the ISO bootable to update everything.

  SAMSUNG SSD are on a latest firmware as well.

  Hello.

  The Samsung 850 Pro SSD are not validated or certified to work with controllers from Dell, and as such, there is an incompatibility of communication between readers and the controller at the firmware level. Thus, you are required to achieve the unexpected poor read and write performance regardless of the controller cache settings. Consider using Dell certified readers.

  Thank you.

• Satellite A40 - boot sequence problems

  Hello!

  I just bought a used Toshiba Satellite A40. He had a almost crashed Windows XP is installed. I'm trying to put a new copy of Windows XP on it, but I can't boot from the CD. By pressing the done nothing F12 key and when I access BIOS (v. 1.50), I can't change the boot sequence. The only things that I can access are the date and time. Help, please!

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  Hi moldovanvali,
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  -charge the battery fully
  -Start computer laptop game + time and date +.
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  -change the boot for odd sequence +, + cdrom + or similar
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  There are many reasons for this...

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• Eliminate the F1 of the Win 7 Pro boot sequence

  I am running Win 7 Pro on a Dell Optiplex 755.  In the course of booting did not require that I press the F1 key.  Due to an accident, I did a complete recovery system (system returns to the way it came from the factory) now every time I have start or do a reboot I have to press the F1 key.  It is a problem when I install something that requires a reboot.  How can I fix?

  I resolved to myself.   I found that my bios has been looking for a floppy disk at startup drive, and there is no floppy.  I've eliminated who, and now everything is fine.

• No windows XP cd and I have unmountable boot volume problem

  I don't have a Windows XP CD, I lost it... how I can get a CD so I can try to solve my problem of "unmountable boot volume"? Do I have other options?

  Hi EricaMetzler,

  1. did you of recent changes on the computer?

  2. When you receive the error message?

  You will need to check the hard disk for all errors for which you need the Windows XP installation CD.

  Unfortunately, Windows XP installation CD is no longer available for sale, you can contact any local store tech or you can check eBay or Amazon, they have all copies left.

  Unmountable Boot Volume

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/555302

  When you restart your computer or upgrade to Windows XP, you receive the error message "STOP 0x000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/297185