Hi - I am having trouble setting up a NUC11PAHi7 that I have just bought. I have the NUC connected and RAM and SSD installed. I have not updated the BIOS as there doesn’t seem to be any updated BIOS on the intel website - and I have searched this forum and seen that updating the BIOS wouldn’t be needed for a NUC11. So I have powered up and tried to press F2 to enter the BIOS configuration screen to undertake the next steps and nothing happens - I go straight to the system information screen and can’t move on from there. The keyboard does seem to work as the up and down arrows do allow me to scroll on the system info screen.
Does anyone have any ideas? I have very little computer knowledge and am starting to regret attempting this!!
Thanks in advance.
Thank you. I have tried skipping installing updated BIOS and gone to the next step. When I go into boot priority the NUC does not offer my SSD as a boot priority - only UEFI options. The NUC does identify the SSD in the storage tab though so it is seeing it (in the M2 slot).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I need to update the BIOS first? I have managed to locate a BIOS update on the ASUS website but the F7 file doesn’t end in .bio as is suggested in instructions it is PATG1357.0057.
Not sure the bios update is required on later machines as it was for the earlier models when ROCK was launched. What build of RoonOS are you installing, anything from build 254 supports UEFI installation anything before is legacy bios only.
thanks. I downloaded Roon yesterday so current build. My IT skills are not great and the Rock install guide doesn’t seem to be as step by step with my NUC11 as I’d hoped. I’m not sure what UEFI is? I only have 2 boot options UEFI:PXE IPv4 and UEFI:PXE IPv6. I think there were 2 slots when I installed the SSD - might try the other one (although the NUC does recognise it in the M2 slot).
UEFI is secure boot that all modern pcs use, but it’s stricter on security so you could not install RoCK using it prior to build 254 and had to enable legacy bios boot in the settings. Version should be in the file name of what you downloaded.
sorry yes it was ROCK I Meant and downloaded it from the link on the ROCK install guide page. It seems the difficulties I am having are before I get to that point though - with trying to get the SSD as the primary boot. I ve found other threads on this forum with the same issue and there is a suggestion by a member that worked - so will try this -
Get Rock on a USB flash drive according to Roon manual. Insert the USB in the NUC and press F10. Select the USB as the source drive and SSD as the destination. The NUC now also needs to be connected to wired internet (LAN). Mouse, keyboard and monitor are not needed anymore because the Roon server (the NUC) can be accessed via another PC, a web browser and IP-address.
Check the Bios. Restart the NUC and press F2 and verify the SSD is first in boot priority. The SSD is loaded with the ROCK-OS and is now visible as bootable disk (first priority).
But a new m.2 SSD freshly installed has nothing on it, so it won’t be seen as a bootable device. You want to have the ROCK installer on a USB stick and boot from that. Then the ROCK installer will set up RoonOS and Roon on the m.2 SSD and set it to be bootable. That’s the point when going back to the BIOS will show the m.2 SSD as a bootable device.
really confused why the install guide mentions setting the boot order to SSD at a stage before the guide tells you to download ROCK??? It seems I need to move to the downloading and installation of ROCK before I can then set the boot order??
Yup - I suspect that the author had an SSD that was already formatted in some fashion so that it would show up. The important step is to enable the boot from the USB stick.
Thank you - nearly there! Before I do this there is no boot options in the drop down menu for USB - only 2 UEFI options. However, I have checked the USB box in the boot priority and checked boot USB devices first - so hopefully that will be OK.
thanks very much. I finally managed to set everything up (after a few hours trying to do steps that weren’t needed - updating BIOS, assigning SSD for priority boot). All working perfectly now but I found it a frustrating experience trying to follow those instructions.
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