#Need a BIOS mod for the x299 Rampage Encore to add white listing
civic dawn
supple acorn
This sounds like a plzbro post
My quick search didn't find a modded one, so it looks like you're going to need to find and pay someone to do it
civic dawn
Would happily pay someone if the can get a bios modification that actuall works and fixes my issue, happy to pay depending on what they can do
Was hoping someone who knew what they were doing could edit a bios in a few seconds as I've seen quite a few people quickly make bios for people for free on forums, but it would be far more worth paying a small fee instead of having to send a ton of stuff back to Amazon
Would be like 16 items
civic dawn
My quick search didn't find a modded one, so it looks like you're going to need ...
Also thank you for looking I searched via AI, Google, Bing and only ones I found didn't do what I needed.
Far as I'm aware its a white list tucked away somewhere
supple acorn
Was hoping someone who knew what they were doing could edit a bios in a few seco...
Unfortunately you won't find anyone here who will do it
As BIOS modification is legally gray at best
And LMG wants nothing to do with any legal issues
civic dawn
Ah that's fair enough, I never even knew it was a gray area, assumed it would be if the board is sold on but not if the board isn't being supplied and the user that owned it applied the bios
I know Deepseek and ChatGPT both were more then willing to teach me how to BIOS mod xD
supple acorn
Please don't use an LLM to learn something this complex
Especially if you don't have any baseline knowledge
civic dawn
Its very out of my depth but I have't really got an alternative thanks to Intel abandoning VROC keys also thank you will have a look of that to see if I can understand any of it
Would honestly give Intel happily 50GBP if it meant I could just have access to use Crucial instead of Optane drives in that slot
Optane is slower write than any M.2 in PCIE.
abstract slate
Looks like Intel VROC (and/or ASUS' implementation of it through their custom DIMM.2 module) was not designed to be very flexible for people who don't want to / can't acquire the VROC hardware key, and then also if you're not using "compatible high-end Intel NVMe drives."
I totally get the desire to somehow enable it, but ASUS would have to provide a BIOS file that supports this. Even if someone here were familiar with BIOS modding, #rules 1, 2, and 9 prohibit us from redistributing copyrighted code. In other words, contact ASUS. 🙂
The only other thing that might be causing the DIMM.2_2 slot to not work outside of VROC (VMD) is if perhaps you have 3x PCIe expansion cards installed (graphics related or otherwise), or the motherboard otherwise believes you're using an x16/x16/x8 PCIe slot configuration, as this disables DIMM.2_2 on your motherboard with 48-lane CPUs, though... then I would expect the drive installed in DIMM.2_2 to NOT appear ANYWHERE at all in the BIOS, including in VROC / VMD.
Based on these forum threads, it might not even be ASUS you'd need to heckle - people are indicating this is an Intel restriction to prevent Enterprise Customers from buying much cheaper consumer-level High End DeskTop (HEDT) hardware for server-grade purposes.
https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/rampage-vi-strix-x299-series/r6e-vroc-with-non-intel-drives/td-p/859512
https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/rampage-vi-strix-x299-series/bootable-vroc-raid-10-vmd-domains-and-pcie-lanes/m-p/803240#M9761
civic dawn
Thank you very much for the info, using 48 Lane and Intel make it almost impossible to get in touch, I can buy a second hand Intel VROC key but the second objective was more to find a list based on searching the BIOS file of every Intel drive supported so I know what I can buy because based on how awful Intel drives are, I really would prefer to buy a Gen 4 or Gen 5 M.2 if Intel makes them over the best one I could find which was 3500MBps read and 1450MBps write
Thank you very much for so much info, and yeah it makes no sense to me as I have a single DIM.2 which holds 2 M.2 drives. Not some kind of 10 drive RAID device.
Will try Asus today, I've heard nothing good about their support so a bit terrified xD
They also want my motherboards serial but ever since I installed OpenRGB my board no longer shows in Armoury Crate
New hurdle, have no idea where my serial key is in BIOS and I've been forced into Emergency living by my sister after my mothers passing so the box is in a storage locker thats not accessable to me
civic dawn
Asus read my post and just went, we don't provide modifications, twice in a row not reading that I asked for exsisting spec as well
sleek notch
@civic dawn Because it shows up in the VMD menu, have you tried disabling VMD?
If the M.2 port is wired directly to the VMD, you are SOL. You can't just modify the BIOS, it has lots more checks than that. It's not a simple whitelist.
civic dawn
I can try and do that next time I reboot
And even if I can't have it modified the second half of my email was asking for a list of devices that was compatible as the manual is useless at that
Do new Intel drives work, am I stuck with specically older Optane, really quite lost and hate that I will lose an 8x bay just for not using VRoc