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Adata XPG gammix S70 blade 1tb PCIe 4x4 cant be seen on windows nor BIOS after installing it. I have a Asus Prime Z270-P (PCIe 3x4 slots), GTX 1060, i5 7600K Is it compatibility issue, i thought PCIe 4x4 was backwards compatible with PCIe 3x4 ?

I just recently built a system and am using a Samsung 980 pro, Asus ROG strix b550 and one SATA SSD in the first slot. My m.2 is running at exactly half of advertised speed and Samsung magician says it's running gen 4 x2. I've checked bios but it won't let me change it and I don't think it's the...

So i bought a samsung 970 evo for a pc and i need to install windows but the M.2 SSD is not detected in the bios or when i try to install Windows. I know that the ssd and all of the other components work, the only thing that might be a problem is that my motherboard is from an Asus prebuilt PC...

Hi, So i encountered something weird, as I powered my PC off, as usual, yesterday everything was fine. Today when I wanted to power it on, i ran into the windows repairing process. After having an error that it cant do anything, I looked into advanced options, where on every option i ran again...

Hi all, I've recently been looking for a M.2 SSD to buy to upgrade from my old hard drive storage solution. I found a SSD on Amazon that is in my price range and has good reviews. I checked my motherboard manual for compatibility and it says "The M.2 port supports either M.2 SATA 6GB/s module or...

Hello, I have a quick question regarding the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2. Will it fit in my Gigabyte Z370P D3 M2P_32G slot? Below is my motherboard. Here is the manual. Especially concerned for the bandwith. The manual states something that it shares bandwith with the SATA3.0 connector, but I...

So when I booted up my PC today, only one of my 2 M.2's were detected in device manager. I then went to check if I could find it in BIOS, but I still only saw one. I tried reseating the M.2. but this did nothing. Now I'm not sure what to do. The M.2's are exactly the same type (Corsair Force...

Good evening to everyone Ive run into a problem instaling my sumsung 980 pro m2 ssd,apparently the second slot that is made for the 2280 length does not accept the drive and it does not show in bios. After some digging i found out that i need to move it to the first m2 slot right under the GPU...

I'm trying to install windows 10 on a newly built PC, my bios detecting the SSD but windows 10 installer keep saying "We couldn't find any drives". I've tried couple of suggestions but nothing seems to work. I'm using Intel 12 gen i5 12400f, Asus Prime b660m A wifi D4, and PNY SSD NVMe CS2140...

Hello everyone, I have recently bought a new Motherboard (MSI PRO B660M-A DDR4) and have bought with it a SSD from Aliexpress that turns out to be faulty since it glitches and freezes my PC when it's under heavy load. And now what I would like to do now is to buy a real SSD (good brand) even...

I whas wondering is it good idea to buy now CPU or wait till next year to see what Intel or AMD has to ofer and i'm in need of upgrading something Good to best to last at least the next 7 Years What would be good Motherboard CPU GPU PC for Gaming and maybe Video Editing Intel Raptor...

Read online that Windows has a built in tool called winsat you can use to test disk performance, where you "winsat -disk drive c" to test your c drive. Is that reliable to use just like that to confirm you're getting the speeds out of a M.2 drive that manufacturers advertise on their website...

ASUS Rampage VI Extreme Encore is my motherboard right now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZK7JTLL 1. Can I plug in two 2TB m.2 SSD on my motherboard, and have one Windows C drive with 4TB capacity? Or, am I forced to have a separate 2TB C drive and a separate 2TB D drive? 2. Suppose the...

I learned from another thread I posted that PCIe4 is better than PCIe3 for performing statistical and mathematical analyses using big data. Currently everything I have is PCIe3 components. Due to compatibility issue, I need to upgrade all the main components (motherboard, SSD, CPU) to...

Is only one of the M2 slots on this motherboard compatible with PCIe 4.0 Hard Drives? In slot one I currently have a Samsung 960 EVO 250Gb SSD which I believe is PCIe 3.0 I also have a Samsung 870 QVO 2Tb SATA drive (not M2) Will PCIe M2 SSD's only work in slot 1? If I put a PCIe 4.0 M2...

Hi. I just bought a new rig including a Gigabyte B660M GAMING motherboard. I was previously using an A320M S2H motherboard with a HikVision E100N 256GB M.2 SATA SSD installed. My problem is that the same SSD isn't being detected on the new B660M and despite its light turning on, the BIOS states...

I already have 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD. But I am considering a bigger SSD because I am running out of space. 1. Are 4TB M.2 PCle SSD better than 2TB ones in terms of specs other than storage volume? 2. What's the best 4TB SSD? This is a simple table I assembled. Sabrent Seagate...

So today I finally got some parts in to upgrade my build. Changed my motherboard and processor out. When I went boot my PC I noticed one of my SSD's were not showing in bios nor in windows after launching, but the other works just fine. I tried to updating the BIOS, downloading chipset drivers...

Hi everyone My friend had a wierd issue, where after moving to a new SSD + fresh Windows install, he always needed to select the new SSD (M.2 NVME) in the bios selection menu. Even after formatting the old ssd, it would still show up as a boot drive (Probably because we haven't removed all...

i bought a m.2 ssd from kingspec used it for almost 3 month's and then it hit me with blue screen of death try restarting it nothing worked tried to format or even fix it crash all the time, ""the request could not be performed because of an io device error"" that is one of the errors I...

Does putting my OS in my SATA makes my apps and games in my M.2 NVME load times not live up to its potential?

I have just purchased a 2nd m.2 SSD for my system, I already had a 1tb m.2 for my OS and other things along with a 10tb SATA HDD. Didn't think much about limitations on bandwidth, I've tried a few combinations of things to make all 3 devices connect properly with no luck, I'm not too...

I am trying to understand why I cannot get my Samsung 970 EVO Plus to run at 3.0x4 in the m.2 slot. I have tried different bios settings that I thought would help but I could only get this to run at 3.0x1 in the m.2 slot. I purchased an adapter card for the pcie slot and the 970 will run at...

I am trying to use an M.2 card as an external USB drive. It is in a Kingshare SSD enclosure, C3 SATA to USB. The M.2 card is a 2280 format. I was (several years ago) using this on a Maximus VIII Ranger MoBo as the Win10 system drive. It is a 128G card, and it was replaced with with a 500G M.2...

Recently I had to update my setup and bought a ryzen 5 5600x and ASUS Tuf b550m Plus motherboard. I already had a corsair m.2 (Force Series™ MP510 480GB M.2 SSD PCIE 3.0). Initially I had plugged my M2 into the M2_1 slot (PCIE 4.0). However, when installing windows, several crashes (BSODs)...

Hi all, First time poster here. I've searched through various forums and troubleshooting already, but I'm still stumped (granted, I'm essentially a beginner). I just built a new rig for myself and put in my drives from my old PC into the new one with no issues. I began updating the BIOS for my...

Hello! This is the first time I ask about anything on a forum, and you get why - I am totally stumped now with my issue. I try to figure out what is the problem. Here are all the details: My specs: MSI Z390 Edge Gaming Intel Core I9 9900 AORUS RTX 2070 CORSAIR 2×8GB Hard Drive 4 TB PHISON SSD...

Hello, so im here with a quick question cause i couldnt find the specific information, so got a m.2 ssd drive cause my old one had less space and i wanted to upgrade to a bigger one to install my windows in, so i wanna ask can i format all my drives with disk manager (including the one who has...

M.2 got corrupted awile ago, reinstalled windows on another SSD. BIOS can recognize m.2, windows computer management cannot. All I want is to wipe the m.2.

Hi, I’m troubleshooting one of the stranger issues I’ve ever come across… I have an Asus Prime B450M-A II, a Ryzen 5700x and an Inland 1TB pci-e M.2 drive from microcenter. If I use the integrated graphics, and install windows, the machine crashes when windows updates the display driver. and...

The screw that holds down the M.2 wireless card in my laptop is completely stripped and I don't know how to get it out. The reason this came about is because the card kept working itself loose, causing blue screens and eventually loss of wireless function altogether. I would open the laptop...

Hi, recently I decided to clean install Windows 11 since there was a problem with my power button which wasn’t working correctly and required the plug to be turn on for about 30 minutes before being able to work. Now the power button works fine, however I realised that at every cold boot, the...

My girlfriends laptop just died suddenly and I bought a M.2 to USB adapter to try and get the data off of it and onto my computer. When I plug the drive in it doesn't show up in "devices and drives" but it does show up in "devices and printers" as "USB 3.0 Device" and when I go to disk...

My laptop's WLAN socket is broken. (Acer aspire 5 a514-52g) It has sata and m.2 connector. I have already use m.2 connector for my nvme storage. So i only have the SATA connector available. I don't want to use usb wifi dongle. Can I use adapter to connect my wifi card to sata connector. It will...