Installed a Intel 600p m 2 ssd onto a msi z97 gaming 5 mobo. The bios wont recognise that it is in the m 2 slot

[Brencurl]

Hi people

I recently purchased a msi z97 gaming 5 mobo and installed a m 2 intel 600p ssd into the m 2 slot on the motherboard. I installed win 10 onto it in uefi mode and my sata settings in bios is ahci. when I go to system check in the bios It does not see the m 2 card as being installed. It does show up in the boot menu. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Chugalug_]

Check that power is being delivered to the M.2 slot, and that the first SATA port is free, as power is shared between these two ports, and only one may be used at a time.

 

[Brencurl]

Check that power is being delivered to the M.2 slot, and that the first SATA port is free, as power is shared between these two ports, and only one may be used at a time.

Thanks for the quick response. I have run various ssd benchmark tools on the drive, both when it was mounted in the m 2 slot and again in the pcie slot. and those tools picked it up and it is working. In my mobo manual it states that if I place a card in the m 2 slot it disables sata 5 and 6, which is fine as there is nothing in there. So you are saying that I should not have anything in the sata 1 port either?

 

[Chugalug_]

Ah, okay.
That should be perfectly fine then!
It's just normally for Sata port 0/1, no worries.
So if it's showing up in the boot menu, what's the problem?
I'm a little confused here !
If it's recognizing in the boot menu as you say, but it isn't showing up in system check, is it still booting?

 

[Brencurl]

It is booting, but is not showing up in the system check. And when I run userbenchmark, userbenchmark says it is only reading at 176 mbs, although it is correctly picking up the 4k read and write speeds. If I place the card into the pcie slot, should I enable raid sata in the bios?

 

[Brencurl]

Some additional info, It will not boot if I select the disk name from the bios, it will only boot if I select it as "windows boot manager" in the bios

 

[Chugalug_]

No point enabling RAID sata in the BIOS since you're not doing a RAID setup, try to put it in the PCIE slot, I assume you have one of those adapters.
See if that alleviates the issues or changes anything.
Get back to me on results.

 

[Brencurl]

No point enabling RAID sata in the BIOS since you're not doing a RAID setup, try to put it in the PCIE slot, I assume you have one of those adapters.
See if that alleviates the issues or changes anything.
Get back to me on results.

I put the m 2 into the pcie slot and ran hd info in the mobo section there is a green tick next to my other ssd , but the 600p has a red cross next to it. AS SSD is picking it up and the reads and writes are correct. Mobo bios is still not registering the disk

 

[Chugalug_]

Sounds like a faulty motherboard imo...
First I suspected the BIOS, but given all settings are correct, and now the M.2 slot on the mobo itself has been ruled out as the factor i'd say that it's an issue with either that specific SSD on the motherboard, or the board is failing to recognize M.2 devices fully, it is a last generation motherboard and a very new SSD afterall.
Contact MSI and let them know about your problem, more than likely they'll know for sure what the issue is, because at this point I could give you more advice, but i'd be shooting in the dark.

 

[b.fortenberry28]

Hi people

I recently purchased a msi z97 gaming 5 mobo and installed a m 2 intel 600p ssd into the m 2 slot on the motherboard. I installed win 10 onto it in uefi mode and my sata settings in bios is ahci. when I go to system check in the bios It does not see the m 2 card as being installed. It does show up in the boot menu. Am I doing something wrong?

Its not hardware failure AT ALL.First off you need to update the BIOS MSI made this very easy with there utility program.after you do this,that m.2 needs to be plugged into a already running machine with windows or Ubuntu. Youll then initialize the m.2 as MBR make a partition and you're problem is solved.I had exact issue with my gaming 5 and later on my Gaming 9 boards.this fixed both of em.Gaming 5, i used a intel m.2 2280,the gaming 9 was a Western digital black m.2 2280