Windows 10: Asus x99 PRO post code D4 with Samsung 950 PRO

Hello,


I am experiencing a black screen hang-up during boot. The screen shows the ASUS motherboard logo, then black screen hangs for about 1m and 15seconds, then proceeds to boot into windows. During he long hang, motherboard shows QCode "D4" (PCI resource allocation error. Out of resources).


Here are my specs:


Asus X99 Pro USB 3.1
Core i7 5960X
EVGA 980 Ti (Sitting in top slot)
64gb G.Skill Ripjaws 4
Samsung NVMe 950 PRO
ASUS Thunderbolt addon card (Second Slot)
EVGA Supernova 1050W PSU
Windows 10 Pro Latest Build (10586.164)


The motherboard has latest BIOS (2101).


Things I've tried


- I have the system overclocked mildly to 4.2Ghz, I tried resetting BIOS to default - no go
- Clearing CMOS - no go
- Samsung has an NVMe driver (version 1.1), this is installed - no go
- Tried running only with one stick of RAM, and only the 980Ti to eliminate any hardware conflicts - no go
- Since this is supposedly PCI Resource error, I tried running the 980Ti in second slot - no go
- Tried switching Fast Startup on/off both in Windows and BIOS - no go
- Tried re-installing Nvidia drivers fresh - no go
- Ran Windows Performance Analyzer Boot Trace to see if anything else hangs up the boot, nothing showed - no go
- Rebooted with only basic services - still hangs (this tells me it is not a startup/services related issue)


My suspicion is that this might be a driver conflict with Windows 10 and the Samsung driver.
In my Device Manager, under Disk Drives - I have "NVMe Samsung SSD 950"
under Storage Controllers, I see "Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller" and "Samsung NVMe Controller"


I've tried uninstalling the Samsung NVMe Controller, but after reboot, I get BSOD "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE", and I'm having to run the Automatic Startup Repair to get back into Windows. Then the Samsung NVMe Controller re-appears.


The Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller does not have an option to be uninstalled...


At this point, I'm not sure what could be the problem, I seemed to have tried everything.


If someone has experienced this or knows a solution, this would be highly appreciated, seeing I've already spent countless hours on this.
One would expect to have a blazing fast boot times with hardware like this, but I guess things are not always so smooth..


Thanks for reading,
Lukas

:)

 

Installing Windows 10 onto a Samsung Pro M.2 drive

I have a MSI X99S SLI Plus motherboard with an M.2 slot with the latest BIOS and drivers installed. I currently boot from a Samsung 850 pro 256gb SSD with Windows 7 Pro on it. I want to upgrade to Windows 10 but I would like to install it onto a Samsung
950 Pro M.2 NVM Express drive that I installed into the M.2 slot on my motherboard.

When I install the driver for the Samsung 950 Pro into my Windows 7 Pro drive, it appears to install OK and I can "see" the Samsung 950 Pro device. But, when I reboot my system, my Windows 7 Pro install, which is on my Samsung 850 is corrupt and I have to
revert to system restore to be able to boot back into my Windows 7.

I have tried installing the driver, then used Samsung Magician to clone my Samsung 850 Pro over to my Samsung 950 Pro and it appeared to copy OK but when I reboot, I get an error that the Samsung 950 Pro install is corrupt and can not boot.

I even removed the other drives so that the Samsung 950 Pro was the only drive in the system.

I believe that I must have at least Windows 8.1 to be able to successfully install this device. I have Windows 8.1 on another PC that I would be glad to migrate but it originally came with Windows 8 and I qualified for the free upgrade to 8.1. So, I can't
even use that install to get my Samsung 950 Pro setup as my Windows boot device.

Is there a way that I can download a copy of Windows 10, install it onto my Samsung 950 Pro and use my free upgrade rights to activate it?

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

 

Can't update Windows 10 to build 14328 due to error 0x800704cf

Can't update to 14332 either. Same error (0xc0000185).

Converted the esd file to an ISO and tried it that way. I got error code 0xC1900101 - 0x20017 - Install failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during the boot operation.

After some research, seems to be a lot of different reasons that one may get these errors, but a lot of them are due to drivers.

I'm thinking it may have to do with my Samsung 950 Pro NVME drive or add on card. I did a clean install of Windows 10 on the 950 Pro when I got it and everything went fine. I am on the fast ring and
upgraded to 14316 no problem. The 950 was installed on my motherboards M2 slot but it was only X2. So I added a SilverStone dual M2 to PCI-E X4 card and moved the 950 there. No issues. However, since
then I have not been able to upgrade.

Gigabyte Ultra Durable X99-UD4

Intel I7 5820K Extreme

16GB Crucial DDR4-2133

MSI Geforce GTX 970 4GD5T OC

Samsung 950 Pro 512GB

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

Mushkin 120GB

 

UPDATE: I have solved this issue, for anyone experiencing this, I got my boot time to around 45secs by disabling the CSM. If you don't want to disable it, just set the PCI to "UEFI FIrst" or something similiar depending on your mobo.


Thanks!