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Now that things are stable in my system and I have done more research, here is what I know:
1) HP has disabled advanced mode in BIOS for my and many laptops. Different methods I have read to get into advanced mode have failed. Therefore, I cannot disable RST in BIOS. The BIOS must be set to AHCI mode in order for the Microsoft NVMe driver to work with the Samsung 980. So I have to stay with RST.
2) RST does support NVMe and HMB and Intel's RST Software says HMB is enabled on my machine, so that is good.
3) My 980 is only reading at about 1700 MB/s according to Magician, which is about half its capability. I set it to full performance mode and that did nothing. This could indicate that the PCIe is working at X2 instead of X4, but I read that all PCIe ports are X4 capable. Could this be a BIOS setting (which again I would not be able to change because HP locked it) or is there another reason I am only getting half speeds? My CPU is an intel Gen 8.
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That is puzzling - that read speed is about right for a 2x PCI 3.0 lane,s though I do not know if that is the issue.
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