Question Issue with 2nd M.2 NVMe SSD on ASUS 570X Plus motherboard ?

[Saj1011]

Hi,

So I have an ASUS 570X Plus motherboard and an issue with a 2nd M.2 NVME 1TB SSD.
I installed this 2nd drive "Crucial P3 M.2 NVME GEN 3 x4 CT1000P3SSD8" after I removed heat sink on board, the PC does not boot up and freezes at initial BIOS screen.

I also swapped m.2s and same thing happened.

My initial drive is a Samsung 970 evo plus m.2 2tb NVME also, which hosts Win10.

So, I have no idea why this is happening, I also think my motherboard should support the other NVME drive, as the initial one works and both NVME.

I also tried a USB piece of hardware that you slot the NVME M.2 into, but that did not work either as it did not recognise the M.2.

My main objective is to remove a 1TB folder from my Samsung and transfer it to the Crucial.

So I reverted back to just using the original 2tb and am totally baffled why the motherboard won't smoothly add the Crucial m.2.

Any advice welcome.

Thanks

 

[kira-faye]

Sounds like that drive (Crucial) is dead or otherwise defective. RMA time.

See if it will boot with just the Samsung in the second slot (where you normally don't put it). If it will, the Crucial is definitely the problem. If it won't, you might have a bad slot /and/ a bad drive, though this is not likely.

The fact that the external enclosure wouldn't recognize the Crucial drive is reason enough to suspect the drive is bad. I'm assuming you've used others in it without issue? Or is the enclosure also new?

 

[Satan-IR]

If you're sure the Cruicial drive is properly installed in the slot and the BIOS doesn't see/recognize it the drive might be faulty/DOA.

What brand and model is the USB enclosure? Are you sure the USB enclosure accepts PCIE drives? Some of them just do SATA and some do both.

Is there any other PC avilable where you can check/test the Cruicial drive?

 

[kira-faye]

If you're sure the Cruicial drive is properly installed in the slot and the BIOS doesn't see/recognize it the drive might be faulty/DOA.

What brand and model is the USB enclosure? Are you sure the USB enclosure accepts PCIE drives? Some of them just do SATA and some do both.

Is there any other PC avilable where you can check/test the Cruicial drive?

Good catch, didn't realize this is an SATA NVME drive. May be related to that.

Edit: meant SATA M.2 as @SkyNetRising so "kindly" pointed out.

 

[Satan-IR]

Good catch, didn't realize this is an SATA NVME drive. May be related to that.

I meant the enclousre. It might not accept PCIE drives or OP might have installed the drive in the SATA slot of the enclosure if it supports both.

If this is the OP's board here (@Saj1011 please confirm) both M.2 slots accept both PCIE 4.0 and SATA drives. Those 2 drives (Samsung and Cruical OP mentioned are both PCIE 3.0 if memory serves right.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Do you have any SATA hard drive/SSDs installed?
The 2nd NVME slot shares a connection with 2 SATA ports on the board.
Usually SATA 5&6.
So installing Another NVME disables these 2 SATA connectors.

If you had the hard drives/SSD connected when you installed windows the Boot loader may be on one of your other drives that gets disabled when you install the drive.