Install an NVME SSD into a Dell OptiPlex 9020, 7020 or 3020 and modify the BIOS for native support.

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In this video I show you how you can modify the BIOS on a Dell OptiPlex 9020, 7020 or 3020 so that it natively supports booting from an NVMe SSD. This provides an incredible boost in performance and completely transforms the machine. Check out the blog post for further ALL of the details:
www.tachytelic.net/2021/12/de...
The procedure is slightly different depending on the model of the machine, but it is easy for all three kinds of machines.
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@repairstudio4940 10 ай бұрын

Great video, actual saw the blog post first. Liked and subbed

@BuledeAgua Жыл бұрын

I did all the procedures you listed in your guide and the speeds I got when I put the nvme in the black x4 slot of my optiplex 9020MT (the blue one is used by my GPU) are impressive, and luckily I was able to clone my old ssd to the new one nvme, thank you very much for your guide.

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

Great to hear you had a good result.

@wesleymacedo6931 9 ай бұрын

Bro, thank you so much for your help! It all worked out here in my 3020. Success there for your channel. Hugs from Brazil. ❤

@bryanlambert5583 6 ай бұрын

Congratulations. Hopefully your experience can help me. I am trying to upgrade my Optiplex 3020 with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 256gb SSD and a UGREEN Gen 4 X16 PCIe expansion card. I have read the instructions several times and not had a problem until the “modify Bios” step. The Bios has been upgraded to the current A20 version for the Optiplex 3020 The instructions indicate that the NVMe driver should be inserted after the last DXE driver 6C58FC74-64DA………C97316. This driver is not listed in my bios. The instructions strongly suggest following them exactly for this step. I am reluctant to just add the NVMe driver after the last DXE driver. Suggestions please. Thanks in advance

@Jikua 3 ай бұрын

@@bryanlambert5583bro got ignored 😂😂😂

@jamesji2929 10 ай бұрын

thank you very much for your guide， the operation steps are very clear and in detail.

@PaulieM 10 ай бұрын

You are welcome!! Hope you got a nice performance boost

@dualssun 9 ай бұрын

It works perfect. I upgraded my Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF following by this video

@playeromaximo4382 10 ай бұрын

It worked for me! after following your directions, I loaded a fresh install of Windows 11 w/Secure Boot on my 9020 MT. CrystalDiskMark is reading 3285 read and 2380 write speeds from the blue x16 slot. The only thing is that I am not using the Supageek adapter which you SHOW, but I am using the adapter in your LINK to Amazon and every time I turned it on or rebooted I got the "Alert! Hard Drive not found" message and had to press F1 to continue the boot. I WAS ABLE TO FIX THIS by disabling my sata dvd drive in the bios. This thing boots like a sun-of-a-gun. Thank you for doing this!!!

@PaulieM 10 ай бұрын

Nice one. It’s a great upgrade!

@MrVicky501 2 ай бұрын

Plz tell me which processor and nvme you're using to get lightning speed of 3285 and 2380 from 9020 MT

@nunyabusiness69 8 ай бұрын

I just wanted to say thank you for this detailed tutorial! No issues with creating the new bios, but I was hoping for a little more tweaking on the bios end to get it to work (UEFI). I spent a lot of time switching things around and then giving up. I had cloned the new drive like you did originally but drive wasn't showing up as boot drive in bios. Ended up just installing a new windows to my m.2 via recovery and then spending even more time messing around with configurations until I FINALLY got it working! Dont ask me what I did, but I'm just grateful it works lol. Thank you again for all your help with the new bios!

@PaulieM 8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear you finally got it working!

@sozonpv 7 ай бұрын

i am in a similar situation. Do you remember what you did? Was it disabling secure boot in BIOS?

@Inferior_Machines 7 ай бұрын

I still can’t get it to boot. Dell optiplex 9020 mini tower. UEFI is Enabled just says it no hard drive found. All sata cables are removed and turned off in bios. I seen other people say they did it to the 9020 mt. But when reading about it on the Dell support page 9020 mt. It says it’s not possible. The bios has UEFI option. All it says is to enable it for it to work in bios. If there was an exact list of settings in the bios would be nice. You turn one thing off and something else doesn’t work. It’s crazy. I am embarrassed right now because I have built computers and fixed them for over 20 years. And I still can’t get m.2 nvme to boot into windows from the pci slot with the 9020 Mt. Works just fine on a Precision 3630 3650 ex… but I still can’t get the m.2 nvme to boot in the pci slot on the optiplex 9020 mt. Even says it’s possible and supports m.2 nvme on the manual for the 9020 mt. A full detailed m.2 nvme pci slot boot into windows 10 pro KZfaq video for the 9020 mini tower would be nice to see.

@PaulieM 7 ай бұрын

@@Inferior_Machines have you actually read the blog post? It sounds like you’re expecting it to work but maybe haven’t even modified the BIOS to support NVMe.

@sahlasahlikids8290 7 ай бұрын

Bro tell me, what did you do... please... thanks

@biscuitBrush 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial, thank you. I used the pcie x4 slot on an i7 9020 sff and am getting 1525mb read and 1431mb write and it's a huge improvement.

@PaulieM 6 ай бұрын

Nice work - it is a great upgrade.

@reallysmallant7174 Жыл бұрын

Hello, do you know I'd this mod works for the small 1x pcie slot? Because I also have a rx 6400 taking up the big pcie

@technomad900 6 ай бұрын

This is cool , it would also be useful to add USB 3.0 booting (via PCIE card addon)

@sonikakumari7526 10 ай бұрын

Please make a video for inspiron 660s

@chunyapchan4829 Ай бұрын

Can u share a video for Dell optiplex 3040MT using M.2 nvme with PCIE x1 adapter and boot window 11pro???

@justin_time Жыл бұрын

Edit: I was able to get the Dell 3020 Mini-Tower to boot from the NVME SSD m.2 drive by changing settings in the BIOS and doing a fresh install of Windows 10 from a USB flash drive. The computer still won't boot when I clone a disk image using Macrium Reflect from my current SATA SSD to the NVME drive. The BIOS settings I needed to change to boot from the NVME drive and install a fresh copy of Windows 10 were to disable legacy boot options (x2), disable all SATA ports, and select UEFI boot mode only. I can't seem to boot from the NVME drive? I was able to follow all of the steps - which thank you so much for posting! - and now I have it set so my system recognizes the NVME drive, confirmed by the bios which shows up exactly as the picture shows in the blog post, interfacing perfectly, and I even used Acronis Clone Disk software to clone my boot drive information from my SATA SSD to the new NVME drive and everything seems to have copied over with no issues (file sizes match perfectly, which I can view in windows explorer with no issues), but my Dell Optiplex 3020 MT won't boot from the NVME drive. I did try disabling the SATA ports on my 3020 too, but that doesn't seem to have forced it over. Is there an additional setting I am missing?

@sozonpv 7 ай бұрын

did you ever get it to boot? if so what did you do?

@justin_time 7 ай бұрын

@@sozonpvI did get it to boot. I had to do a fresh install of the windows OS onto the nvme drive.

@tteurs 3 ай бұрын

Hi, nice video. Will apply to my 9020 i7, thanks. I wonder if, with this kind of procedure, I can solve an "I is on recovery mode" message from the Dell E6420 laptop. did got some problem like this?

@brandonhuffman1797 9 ай бұрын

I do not have that jumper what now 3020 mt

@nathanholmes05 Жыл бұрын

I am stuck on downloading IMEC from Dell, its just says platform not supported,I have found correct service code for 9020 and still no joy

@sukhsingh243 Жыл бұрын

Can i install x16 nvme adapter is it work? Or i only go with x4?

@joleenbarker4315 7 ай бұрын

I came across this video by accident, looking for something about the new 970 EVO Plus. The instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I am new to this world and would like to know why someone would want to set the new SSD up like this versus it's normal install. I saw speed had a lot to do with it, but is there more than that for a reason? Also is the Dell OptiPlex 3020 that different from an Dell Inspirion 3020 as I have the later. I'm just not sure if I want to take this on, but I like a good challenge. I just am not sure it is worth it. The PC will be used in a doctors office to store patient data in an MS SQL database. It's not a busy office either.

@PaulieM 7 ай бұрын

I would say just fit a normal SATA SSD. It’s a fun project for enthusiasts to do but by no means essential. For a doctors office there’s really no need. In a professional setting I’d just buy a brand new machine.

@brentsmith2185 10 ай бұрын

When I run cmd. And copy and paste It’s telling me no path found. My install of intel engine components must not be right. Idk any ideas. I have new Samsung nvm d installed

@cloudygeek914 Жыл бұрын

if you install an SSD just like you did there on a 7020 you basically cant install a GPU because ur taking the pci2 slot ?

@LeoGerritsen 3 ай бұрын

. Hi, interesting. I am wondering what it would take to get this kind of performance on the 3020m (mff micro) Thanks in advance, Leo .

@felipebustamante1100 9 ай бұрын

good afternoon, congratulations for your channel and the knowledge it provides, I have an optiplex 3020 and I saw the procedure to install the m.2 SSD, my question is the following, is it possible to install a third storage unit in the optiplex 3020? I would like to experiment, if possible, I appreciate your response and thank you for your time.

@PaulieM 9 ай бұрын

Yes, you can have multiple SATA drives and the M.2 NVMe SSD.

@sozonpv 7 ай бұрын

Were you able to add the third with the y splitter cable to get more sata power along with the dvd-to-sdd converter caddy?

@ItsTooSlick 3 ай бұрын

hello, i wanted to know if i can also do this with a dual m.2 adapter as well, pci card with 2 m.2 ports. and if so will windows see the drives separately, can this modded bios handle this as well?

@PaulieM 3 ай бұрын

You can use a dual adapter that has a single NVMe m2 port with a single m.2 sata port. The dual NVMe ones will not work.

@HellsingGhrey-ht2wg Ай бұрын

I did everything and my NVMe hard drive still isn't being detected as a hard drive... I'm not sure what to do other than retrace my steps.

@Drakorvich Жыл бұрын

Does this happen to work with a PCIe SSD such as the Intel 750p? Trying to construct a NAS and I have populated all the ports on my 7020. The BIOS recognises the drive as a storage drive but NOT a bootable drive. Thanks in advance if you see this and reply

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

Yep - that is exactly what it does.

@phillipphifer3237 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this guide. I am planning to turn my old 7020 into a Type1 Hypervisor. Is there a way to update the machine to use NVME add on card without having to install an OS on it first to push these updates?

@PaulieM 4 ай бұрын

Yes, you could use a Linux rescue USB stick like I show in this video/blog post: www.tachytelic.net/2022/01/hp-compaq-8300-nvme/?amp You can still more or less follow this guide and use the Linux method.

@djhacker3802 11 ай бұрын

I have a question I can not place the NVMe in the PCIe x4 port since in the x16 I have a graphics card

@PaulieM 8 ай бұрын

You can, it won't be as fast. But it will still be much faster than what you are used to.

@Filposopo Жыл бұрын

Hi, I got a Question do you think that this mod works for the variant of the optiplex 990 ?

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

I have a separate guide for the 990

@felipebustamante1100 9 ай бұрын

Good evening, I am writing to you from Venezuela, my question is if you can continue using the HDD that comes with the equipment as a storage disk and the nvme m.2 as a boot drive, I appreciate your response, thank you

@PaulieM 9 ай бұрын

Yes, you can do that no problem.

@tamilson3711 Ай бұрын

it is support Crucial P3 Plus 500GB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD ??? i know gen 3 ssd support ! what abour gen 4 ssd ???

@blakeli9118 Ай бұрын

Hi what if I want to boot from SATA SSD and use NVME on adaptor as storage? Do i still need to go through this procedure?

@PaulieM Ай бұрын

No, it will just work.

@wesleymacedo6931 9 ай бұрын

Hello, friend! I knew your channel only now after having already connected my nvme ssd adapter to the motherboard of my Dell Optiplex 3020. can I follow your instructions even with it plugged in or do you think it's better to remove it?

@PaulieM 9 ай бұрын

You can do it when it is plugged in no problem.

@TanapongPonghanat Жыл бұрын

I'm using a Dell 9020mt and put M.2/PCIeX16 in slot 4. I have set it in bios. It shows mass storage. and it shows the "PATA SS:" in boot sequence tree view. The problem I have is that I can't boot the new drive. I have turned off other drives. They don't detect the SSD and show "Alert! Hard drive not found."

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

You need to turn off the hard drives in the BIOS if you don't have any connected. That will take care of the error message. With regards to making the new drive bootable, you need to install Windows or another operating system on to it, in order to be able to boot from it.

@simaancheno 11 ай бұрын

@@PaulieM So it's not possible to leave them not disabled? Do you know the reason? Thanks!

@PaulieM 11 ай бұрын

@@simaancheno you can leave them enabled if you’re using them for storage. But you will always get that message if you leave them enabled but don’t have a drive connected.

@mdfury. 10 ай бұрын

I can use ssd again

@netsab 7 ай бұрын

Wow, very impressive. I got a Optiplex 3070 with a Samsung 970vEvo plus but it's stuck around 1600Mt/s, can't get it reach its maximum speed around 3500. Do you if there is way to do this ?

@PaulieM 7 ай бұрын

It often depends on what CPU you have. But I would have thought an Optiplex 3070 would have no problems reaching full speed.

@shyamyenagandula2178 4 ай бұрын

Can you tell me whether this process is gonna work in my Optiplex 7020 Mini Tower (the bulky one) ?

@PaulieM 4 ай бұрын

I’m not 100% sure what your question is. But it works fine on the mini tower and if you check the blog post there is additional information there.

@abid_rmx Жыл бұрын

Hello sir,does this tutorial work for on dell optiplex 3020 MT?

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

It does! If you read the blog post there is a photo showing where the service mode jumper is.

@kyehang470 6 ай бұрын

Hi, I am from Borneo Island and I just successfully modified the bios for my Dell 9020. the pc run fine with the PCI M.2 card.. The only problem is I have to keep the hdd/ssd connected to the board to skip bios menu -If no hdd/ssd, the menu F1 to continue or F2 to enter bios will appear everytime I turn on my pc. Please advice. Thanks in advance

@PaulieM 6 ай бұрын

Just disable the SATA ports in the BIOS. There is a section in the blog post about this.

@jakubmad3957 6 ай бұрын

Do you think it would be possible for my Dell R5500 workstation which has as I belive fully legacy Pheonix BIOS?

@PaulieM 6 ай бұрын

If you don’t have UEFI it’s impossible. But you CAN easily use the clover method.

@drebenv 3 ай бұрын

Will there be a variant for the Optiplex 9010 MT as well?

@PaulieM 3 ай бұрын

There is already a video on that also. Plus a blog post.

@VidClips202 3 ай бұрын

im having an issue whenever i have to use cmd prompt for the 2nd time it says “system cannot find the path specified

@VidClips202 3 ай бұрын

im on a 9020

@yjiro-zf4dm 8 ай бұрын

Help it says windoes cannot be installed to this disk the computers hardware may not support booting to thid disk ensure that disks controller is enabled in the computer bios

@yjiro-zf4dm 8 ай бұрын

Solution: enable fast boost through disabling anything that has legacy written on it 😂😂😂

@PaulieM 8 ай бұрын

Well done. It’s UEFI boot that’s most important

@GospelOfTimothy 10 ай бұрын

Can you put nvme on a Dell Optiplex 760? It has a pcie 16 slot and I was wondering about one of those cards.

@PaulieM 10 ай бұрын

I am not sure, check out this post I did on the 790 and 990: www.tachytelic.net/2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/ Does the 760 have a UEFI Bios?

@GospelOfTimothy 10 ай бұрын

@@PaulieM I don't know how to tell if it has a ufei bios? Most people are claiming you need a bios update but I don't see a bios update for the 760. Update.... Everything was looking good. I found the service mode jumper under the hard drive next to the jumper to reset the nvram but it had no label on it. When I set the jumper it said in service mode and I upgraded the BIOS from A02 to A16. But then when I went to back up the BIOS it said, "platform ich10 error 201, fptw64.exe cannot be run on the current platform please contact your vendor". I'm running Windows 10 pro. 6 gigs of RAM with Core 2 dual. then I tried the win32 directory but that didn't work either. and I tried fptw32.exe also not recognized as an internal command. I found someone who had the same problem so I downloaded another program to backup the BIOS but it's saved it as a bio16. ROM file. Someone said to reading the dot Rom to dot bin but I couldn't open it with ueif tool because it said it wasn't a UEIF file.

@chrisgame7775 6 ай бұрын

Amigo una duda como configuro la BIOS no me reconoce el m.2 hice todos los pasos del vídeo

@PaulieM 5 ай бұрын

You won’t see it in the bios. But if you boot the machine in UEFI mode, Windows setup will see it and you will be able to install on to it.

@user-qr5tm9qs6t 10 ай бұрын

How this upgrade linux use ? Graphic Card after run ok ? i think first use clover boot nvme, risic modification (flashing) bios. Search solution for grub setting. I'am only arch linux user, Microsoft systems not secure and not open source (i no know how windows working only use in the Virtual Machine and networking off - if have problem and not linux solution, or test multi system aplications..

@PaulieM 10 ай бұрын

In regards to this upgrade. The operating system is irrelevant. If the operating system supports NVMe then this modification will allow you to boot from it. For example, I installed Chrome OS Flex on to one the nvme drive of my OptiPlex.

@alexarankovic 7 ай бұрын

Hi, does this method work with Optiplex 3010?

@PaulieM 7 ай бұрын

I have a seperate video for the 3010, 7010 and 9010

@Ameeralamaron 8 ай бұрын

Why did you put usb drive in the port after all this methods still do we need to put the bootable files into the usb drive?😢😢😢😢😢

@PaulieM 8 ай бұрын

I’m not sure what you mean, can you explain further?

@bjornironforged9951 6 ай бұрын

This did not work for me. I have an Optiplex 7020. I followed all the procedures in the video and on the site and everything went smoothly it seemed but I'm still not able to boot from my M.2 nvme SSD on my PCI slot. I did clone my HDD to the SSD too before I did all of this. I need help still.

@PaulieM 6 ай бұрын

Do a fresh install on the NVMe and see if that works. If it does then everything worked well. It just means the cloning process needs to be refined.

@vincentvalentine2198 3 ай бұрын

3020 sff i have vga install i can use pcix1 ??

@thenewsonatrain 3 ай бұрын

🎉😂😂😂

@sajidkhanworld 5 ай бұрын

Bro please tell me for optiplex 3010

@PaulieM 5 ай бұрын

I already did a video on 3010, and a blog post.

@thebeanoverseer6936 Жыл бұрын

When I do a fresh install it says it can’t be installed on the disk

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

You need to boot in UEFI mode, not legacy BIOS mode.

@AgusRohmat 4 ай бұрын

No work in 3020. Error 284: fail to load driver (PCI acces for windows). Tool needs to run with an administrator priviledge account.

@PaulieM 4 ай бұрын

Run it with an admin account then?

@kadirgunel5926 11 ай бұрын

Hello, I have free os version of 3020. Can it be done under Linux ?

@PaulieM 11 ай бұрын

It can, see my guide on how to do the same for the HP 8300 Elite. Same procedure but done with Linux tools. That should work for you (but adapt the instructions for your machine)

@kadirgunel5926 11 ай бұрын

@@PaulieM thank you !

@robertblumpkin4759 Ай бұрын

By chance will this work with a Dell optiplex 9010, i7 3770?

@PaulieM Ай бұрын

Yes, I have a separate guide for 9010: www.tachytelic.net/2021/12/dell-optiplex-7010-pcie-nvme/

@GalacticGamerrYTP 11 ай бұрын

will it work with a 7010?

@PaulieM 11 ай бұрын

I have a separate video and guide for 7010. Check that one out.

@ArawPlayz Жыл бұрын

would this work on a optiplex 790??

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

No, but I do have a separate guide for a 970.

@ArawPlayz Жыл бұрын

@@PaulieM can you send it here please?

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

@@ArawPlayz www.tachytelic.net/2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/

@parveensharma1004 2 ай бұрын

Can i install nvme in optiplex 790???

@PaulieM 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I did a separate blog post on the subject: www.tachytelic.net/2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/

@SkyMuffinz Жыл бұрын

isnt it reduced speeds even though it works?

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what you mean by reduced speeds.

@zeroturn7091 Жыл бұрын

The drive will be limited by the Gen of the board, as long as they’re 1:1 you’ll be fine. I think that the xx20 Optiplexes are Gen3.

@valahullvalachia8602 5 ай бұрын

Can someone help me too?

@PaulieM 5 ай бұрын

What do you need help with?

@HellsingGhrey-ht2wg Ай бұрын

Ok, I disconnected the old SSD drive and turned that drive off in the BIOS. I do want to reconnect it later as a possible storage device location. I then turned on Secure Boot and turned off the legacy boot settings. Suspecting the disc that hard the old OS copied onto it was a little SUS, I did a clean installation with myNVMe plugged into the blue port, just like you said annnnd IT WOOOOOOORRRRRRKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA! *Ahem. Thank you!

@PaulieM Ай бұрын

Well done!!

@silentJET85 6 ай бұрын

Is it possible to do this in Linux?

@PaulieM 6 ай бұрын

Probably, I used a Linux rescue CD for one of my HP guides and it worked well.

@silentJET85 6 ай бұрын

I couldn't find the Linux version of FPT, so I just ended up doing that part in FreeDOS instead. The Linux version of UEFITool worked fine though. I don't yet have the NVME drive to test, but everything seemed to go correctly. Thanks for the tutorial.

@jacksingleton5848 Жыл бұрын

I followed all the instructions in both the video and the online guide on my 7020sff. While I am able to use the drive in Windows, I have had no luck booting off of my Samsung 980 ssd. If i go into bios, it has an option for PATA SS, which I assume is the drive, but if I boot off of it, I'm told "selected boot device failed" If anyone has any ideas on what I could do, I would be grateful.

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

It means you either haven’t booted in UEFI mode or you don’t have something on there to boot from. Have you tried installing windows 10 freshly on to the drive?

@jacksingleton5848 Жыл бұрын

I was trying to boot in legacy mode. I converted the drive and os to work with uefi, and now it boots perfectly. Thank you so much for the time you spent making this video and responding to me. My little brother is going to love his new pc.

@PaulieM Жыл бұрын

@@jacksingleton5848 very glad to help. It’s a great upgrade.

@djhacker3802 11 ай бұрын

I can install Windows 11 formatting the machine without problems

@PaulieM 11 ай бұрын

I didn't know Windows 11 worked on those machines.

@playeromaximo4382 10 ай бұрын

My two 9020s can secure boot with the TPM as required by Win 11. You can also run Win 11 on any other machine w/o Secure Boot, in either MBR (Legacy) or GPT (EUFI). @@PaulieM