LGA 1156
LGA 1156
I'm not finding any LGA 1156 motherboards with M.2 slots online. It might be helpful to double-check your search terms or consider other options.
LGA 1156 is around 15 years old and came before consumer M.2 SSDs. It actually predates the widespread adoption of SSDs. The earliest Intel boards with M.2 support were likely LGA 1150, though even those struggled to boot properly.
These options function well in Windows and can be recognized, but you won’t be able to start from them without a SATA SSD. Moreover, there doesn’t seem to be a clear reason for an i7 870 to gain NVMe advantages over SATA drives; instead, sticking with SATA is more practical, cost-effective, simpler on older systems, and sufficient in performance.
Sure, it seems your motherboard doesn’t accept UEFI BIOS, so you won’t be able to boot from the PCIe NVMe SSD.
I also used a Samsung SSD with a Pi PCIe adapter, but it wouldn't boot. If you're aware that certain motherboards include PCIe storage in their BIOS settings, does any LGA 1156 model have them—likely ASUS UEFI?
Boot from an M.2 NVMe SSD via a PCI-E adapter using DUET+Refind. https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/guide-...find/32251