Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard

A Chinese forum user has discovered that Gigabyte silently added M.2 NVMe SSD boot support to the 13-year-old B75M-D3H motherboard via a firmware update.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/sandy-bridge-era-motherboard-gains-m-2-ssd-boot-support-12-years-after-launch-first-new-bios-in-a-decade-for-decommissioned-motherboard

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