Intel i7 RST VMD 11th Gen NIGHTMARE

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I am looking for any advice or direction;

I purchased a new motherboard for my HP Envy x360 Convertible 15-ed1000 that was originally intel i5 11th gen. I upgraded to Intel i7 11th Gen and you guessed it, SSD is not talking to the motherboard. The upgrade motherboard comes from an Envy 15M-ED1000 that is not supported by HP cloud recovery tool and yes I did attempt to use an equal but supported ABA number and was not successful. I booted BIOS from F .16 straight to F.46, now looking back not the best choice. I have tried every inf driver, extension and controller possible. I pulled every driver I had from two SSDs that were in my old board. I have hand loaded drivers through X:Systems. Nothing is working. NO I CAN NOT TURN OFF VMD VIA BIOS. NO THERE IS NO KEY COMBO TO ACCESS THE ADVANCED BIOS MENU. I am missing something but have not figured it out. Right now I am looking into rolling BIOS back. Any advice or ideas? Hard drive test fails with no error code but motherboard test passes. I’m sure I am missing a few things, its been a long week. Thanks

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NGL, wouldn’t it be easier to load the Intel RST drivers manually when you get to the hard drive selection process?

Follow this guide to install the RST drivers: The drivers that Dell supplies should also work for any system, not just theirs.

(i.e. Microsoft does not supply the RST drivers at all even on the latest Windows installs)

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