CaseySJ
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Hey CaseySJ, previously, I have Windows installed on a separate M.2 drive in my ASUS X99 Deluxe II and now I would like to remove it. Do I need to change anything in the BIOS or it is safe to just removed the drive.
The system is still working great with your EFI!
A quick update on my Asus X99 Deluxe II:Hello @PicLock,
It's perfectly okay to just remove it. It can even be moved to another system, but it may need re-activation. I'm not too familiar with activation procedures in Windows, but if it's possible to deactivate it first, then it might be easier to reactivate it on a new system.
By the way, are you booting the Asus X99 Deluxe II with Clover or OpenCore? Recently I attempted to migrate Clover settings to a freshly configured OpenCore folder, but the system fails immediately at the start of boot.
- I had been using Clover and the latest BIOS 2101 with locked MSR 0xE2, but this prevented me from updating from Catalina 10.15.3 to 10.15.4.
- Someone on the Internet was nice enough to share their unlocked BIOS 1802, which can only be flashed using the BIOS Flashback feature on the Asus rear IO panel.
- After installing the modified BIOS 1802 and switching to N-D-K OpenCore 0.5.8, it was necessary to also use the latest Catalina Kernel patches by nmano at Insanely Mac.
- Now the update from 10.15.3 to 10.15.4 was wonderfully simple -- didn't touch the system even between reboots.
Attached ZIP contains:
- OpenCore NDK 0.5.8 EFI folder.
- Open config.plist in ProperTree and simply fill out the PlatformInfo parameters.
- Modified BIOS 1802.
- Copy to FAT32 USB 2.0 flash disk and follow these steps:
- Copy to FAT32 USB 2.0 flash disk and follow these steps:
- BIOS 1802 Settings.
- I've included my BIOS settings file. We can load this from Tools --> Overclocking Profiles --> Load/Save from USB disk.
EDIT: The new .CMO file (Asus_X99_Deluxe_II_Speed_Step.CMO.zip) enables Enhanced Intel Speed Step to allow CPU clocks to throttle down when idle. I forgot to enable this in the ZIP file, so this firmware file corrects that oversight.
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