Hello,

I am contacting you to ask for your opinion.

Weeks ago I bought an Intel NUC 11 N5105 (BNUC11ATKC40002 ).

Since this board does not have any SATA port, I thought that I could use a SilverStone SST-ECS07 connected to the M.2 slot.

When I try to set up the sata adapter connected to my main PC ( ASUS Mainboard ROG Crosshair VIII Hero WI-FI), I have no problems seeing the drives and their partitions.... As soon as I try the same but in the NUC, then the drives are not found......lots of problems booting, and most of the time I am not even able to enter the original Intel BIOS.

I reached the Intel discord server and I was able to get some feedback from a NUC team member.

You can see the communication with him at:

He was able to confirm the same issues on his side, that it is a problem with this specific model BIOS. And that on other models it works.

Sadly, he also gave me no realistic hopes of receiving a BIOS fix from Intel.

Since I cannot return the products back I am really sad to have just wasted lots of money on these things and not being able to use them.

This is when I came in contact with Coreboot.... this gave me a small light of hope....

Since I really do not know anything about this subject, neither if this would work on this specific motherboard..... I decided to ask for some opinions from you.

Hopefully you could give me some good news :)

Thank you very much and I wish you a good day.

Best regards,

Sandro