upgrading to m.2 nvme pcie ssd on older gigabyte motherboard

[marcia]

Hello Everyone,

I am strongly considering upgrading my older gigabyte version 1 AMD model: 990FXA-UD3 v: x.x
Bios: American Megatrends v: FA date: 10/23/2012 with a nvme2 pcie adapter and this nvme2
ssd drive: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... iption=xpg

and this m.2 nvme pcie adapter: ORICO M.2 NVME to PCI-E Adapter, M2 SSD to PCI-e 3.0 x4 Host Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket, Support M Key Solid State Drive

Does anyone have any experience with doing this? I have read some info about it and most who tried and got it to work, however, some said they had to upgrade the bios first. If anyone has any good info about it or suggestions I would love to hear about it. I plan to install LM 19.1 on it and boot
from the drive. Thank you.

My machine info below:
inxi -Fxz
System: Host: xxxxx Kernel: 4.4.0-142-lowlatency x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: Gigabyte product: N/A
Mobo: AMD model: 990FXA-UD3 v: x.x
Bios: American Megatrends v: FA date: 10/23/2012
CPU: Quad core AMD FX-4300 (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 30539
clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 2600 MHz 2: 2600 MHz 3: 3400 MHz
4: 2600 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.130 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GF116 High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-142-lowlatency
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: b000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 6001.2GB (16.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_HDWE140 size: 4000.8GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 3.6T used: 909G (27%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 17.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 30.8C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:43C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 299 Uptime: 1:58 Memory: 2332.1/16079.8MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35

Many Blessings,

Marcia

[ClixTrix]

You might discover that you can't boot from the NVME with that board. Here's an old post on that subject. Really depends on what your BIOS/UEFI allows.

https://www.overclock.net/forum/11-amd- ... issue.html

If you look at my specs, I've been using NVME since I built the system back in early fall 2017. I use my NVME split for Mint 19.1 and a separate partition for VBox virtual machines.

[marcia]

Thank you for your help. It does not look promising at all. I guess I will be patient
and wait until I upgrade to ryzen motherboards in a year or so.

Thank you.

Marcia