Hi,
My laptop (Asus Intel i5 11th gen) came with an Intel NVMe SSD and I replaced it with a bigger samsung 980. Doing that, I missed the VMD controller (enabled) in bios so my Samsung is working with Intel RST VMD driver (I had to manualy install vmd drivers during windows install in order to detect the ssd), which is not supported by Samsung Magician software. It's not clear for me if it's better to use the standard microsoft nvme driver with a samsung SSD, but in this case it seems I will have to reinstall the OS. Or maybe there is a trick to avoid that ?
Magician does not support RST drivers but it allowed me to flash a ssd firmware update...and it caused a malfunction for a few hours (write speed of only 4MB/s with consequently system hangs...). It's ok since two weeks and samsung support was not able to explain this strange behavior which disapeared for some reason. As it may be linked to the unsupported VMD driver by Magician, I wonder if it's better to disable VMD in Bios. But I'd like to not reinstall my system ...
Thank you!
My laptop (Asus Intel i5 11th gen) came with an Intel NVMe SSD and I replaced it with a bigger samsung 980. Doing that, I missed the VMD controller (enabled) in bios so my Samsung is working with Intel RST VMD driver (I had to manualy install vmd drivers during windows install in order to detect the ssd), which is not supported by Samsung Magician software. It's not clear for me if it's better to use the standard microsoft nvme driver with a samsung SSD, but in this case it seems I will have to reinstall the OS. Or maybe there is a trick to avoid that ?
Magician does not support RST drivers but it allowed me to flash a ssd firmware update...and it caused a malfunction for a few hours (write speed of only 4MB/s with consequently system hangs...). It's ok since two weeks and samsung support was not able to explain this strange behavior which disapeared for some reason. As it may be linked to the unsupported VMD driver by Magician, I wonder if it's better to disable VMD in Bios. But I'd like to not reinstall my system ...
Thank you!
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 21H2 22000.778
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Asus K3500PH
- CPU
- i5 11th gen
- Memory
- 16
- Graphics Card(s)
- 1650
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Oled
- Screen Resolution
- full hd
- Hard Drives
- NVMe SSD Samsung 980 1TB