[SOLVED] Asus H170 ProGaming board. Can't get M.2 Sata drive to work.

Jan 25, 2019
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Greetings,

Purchased a Samsung 860 EVO Sata 500Gb M.2 drive.
After plugging it in and securing, when I power on, the board reboots...twice.
Then, it just goes to an error screen as if its trying to boot to that drive that does not have anything on it.
I tried to boot from the bios boot menu and when I slick on the correct C/boot drive, the bios just recycles back to itself and does nothing.
This happens no matter what drive I attempt to boot to.
I remove the M.2 and all goes back to normal.

Are you supposed to somehow load a partition and OS on these before plugging them in?
Or, am I doing something wrong?

Please advise.
Thanks in advance.