Using an M.2 SSD in the Pavilion 570-p017c

[trigeek]

Does the BIOS support booting from the M.2 SSD? This is a crucial question to help me decide whether to buy an SSD. Since this PC only supports 1 internal 3.5" SATA, this would also be helpful from a reliability viewpoint.

[Ghaith_mohammad]

yes, if your motherboard have m.2 interface or use  PCIe expansion card.

[trigeek]

The motherboard has a M.2 key M and M.2 key A

[trigeek]

Oops. I just read this thread and it seems like I may have trouble finding the right SSD.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/HP-Pavilion-570-p020-adding-M2-...

[NonSequitur777]

@trigeek,

Welcome to our HP User Forum!

Yes, your BIOS does support to use/designate an M.2 NVMe SSD as your primary (boot) drive on your HP Pavilion Desktop - 570-p017c PC (Z5M32AA) as fitted with a Lubin motherboard with SSID: 82F2.

For show-and-tell, please see this HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0XX User who uses a Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD ("System drive"): https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53264422.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[trigeek]

Thanks guys for very quick and helpful replies.

[NonSequitur777 · Accepted solution]

@trigeek,

You are welcome.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[trigeek]

That worked beautifully, though the PC would not boot if I disconnected the power to the SATA HDD. I solved that by going to the UEFI boot settings.

A similar question is can I add an M.2 NVM SSD to my old p7-1247c Pavilion desktop. According the specs I found for the motherboard, which is reportedly a Baker, there should be 

• Two M.2 expansion slots (1 x PCIe x16 and 1 x PCIe x1)
  • One M.2 socket 1, Key A
  • One M.2 socket 3, Key M, (2280/2242)

but I don't see M.2 slots. I do see 6 SATA slots and at least 2 PCIE slots. Can I use the latter for the SSD? The SSD would mount vertically in this case, whereas it mounted horizontally on the Pavilion 570.

[NonSequitur777]

@trigeek,

Your HP Desktop PC Pavilion P7-1247C (QW783AAR) can be fitted with up to 4 x 4GB of DDR3 PC3-12800, 1600 MHz, Non-ECC, Unbuffered, DIMM, 240-pin RAM modules.

According to: https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer?searchtext=QW783AAR, your desktop is fitted with the Hibiscus, AMD Hudson D3 motherboard, with p/n: 655590-003:

Looks like that this motherboard has four SATA ports, and no M.2 NVMe SSD port.

Kind Regards,

NonSquitru777

[trigeek]

Thanks. That looks like the motherboard but see those 3 PCIE slots in the top left. Can't they be used for PCIE SSDs?