ASROCK, asrock
On 1 December I installed a Samsung 2TB "Pro990" into my ASROCK Taichi370's "second" M2 slot. Remaining in Slot 1 M2 was the Samsung 512 SSD which has been the Operating System boot and related files for six years.
The install was unsuccessful.
My Taichi Z370 mobo *never* saw this new SSD. BIOS and Disk Management could not recognize the drive at all. I've got a replacement on its way, because I hope the Pro990 I tried to install was defective, but could there be a conflict with the ASROCK motherboard?
Here are steps I took:
>I turned off the easy small overclock offered in BIOS.
>I disconnected ALL other SATA hard drives and one DVD drive. No Luck
>I swapped the slots - the new drive went into the #1 M2 slot and the boot drive, the Samusung 512GB, was installed in Slot2, which is the M2 at the back of the mobo and case. Slot1 had always successfully booted Windows. So I know that first M2 slot "works". Still no recognition of the Pro990. The BIOS found the boot routines on the 512GB in its new location, and Windows started.
So Slot 2 (M2) is fully functional, but unable to see the Pro990.
My exchanged new Pro990 will arrive in four or five days and I want to confirm that there is not a structural reason that a Taichi Z370 cannot accept TWO NVMe SSDs when one of the SSDs is expecting Gen4 SSD and it's sitting in a Gen 3 PCIe channel. Searching this idea on the web I found no such cautions because these devices are supposed to be backwards compatible. I could find no posts or info on the web with this particular issue.
Any thoughts, everybody?
(Frustrating: There is no instruction on tagging posts in the "User's Guide here!)
On 1 December I installed a Samsung 2TB "Pro990" into my ASROCK Taichi370's "second" M2 slot. Remaining in Slot 1 M2 was the Samsung 512 SSD which has been the Operating System boot and related files for six years.
The install was unsuccessful.
My Taichi Z370 mobo *never* saw this new SSD. BIOS and Disk Management could not recognize the drive at all. I've got a replacement on its way, because I hope the Pro990 I tried to install was defective, but could there be a conflict with the ASROCK motherboard?
Here are steps I took:
>I turned off the easy small overclock offered in BIOS.
>I disconnected ALL other SATA hard drives and one DVD drive. No Luck
>I swapped the slots - the new drive went into the #1 M2 slot and the boot drive, the Samusung 512GB, was installed in Slot2, which is the M2 at the back of the mobo and case. Slot1 had always successfully booted Windows. So I know that first M2 slot "works". Still no recognition of the Pro990. The BIOS found the boot routines on the 512GB in its new location, and Windows started.
So Slot 2 (M2) is fully functional, but unable to see the Pro990.
My exchanged new Pro990 will arrive in four or five days and I want to confirm that there is not a structural reason that a Taichi Z370 cannot accept TWO NVMe SSDs when one of the SSDs is expecting Gen4 SSD and it's sitting in a Gen 3 PCIe channel. Searching this idea on the web I found no such cautions because these devices are supposed to be backwards compatible. I could find no posts or info on the web with this particular issue.
Any thoughts, everybody?
(Frustrating: There is no instruction on tagging posts in the "User's Guide here!)