Hi guys, I'm starting to think I'm crazy here. I have a new build that runs fine when have a 2.5" SATA drive in it. But, when I completely remove that drive (so: no SATA installed at all) and try my nVME M.2 drive (WD SSN550), the motherboard won't recognize it. I've tried M.2 slot A and B, both support NVME, but the mobo won't see it. I flashed to the latest BIOS and that didn't fix it.
I've also tried yanking a SATA M.2 from my laptop to try it in slot A (which supports SATA M.2, whereas slot B does not!) and it also is sadly not recognized. When I put this SATA M.2 back into the laptop, all is well with the laptop.
Could it be bad M.2 slots or something? I feel like PCIe lanes must be fine because the GPU is working.
I can't find anything useful after hours of googling. In BIOS I have tried fastboot on which specifically lets me enable NVME support, but in the "peripherals" tab the NVME section says "no device found". Fastboot off also doesn't help.
Thank you!
I've also tried yanking a SATA M.2 from my laptop to try it in slot A (which supports SATA M.2, whereas slot B does not!) and it also is sadly not recognized. When I put this SATA M.2 back into the laptop, all is well with the laptop.
Could it be bad M.2 slots or something? I feel like PCIe lanes must be fine because the GPU is working.
I can't find anything useful after hours of googling. In BIOS I have tried fastboot on which specifically lets me enable NVME support, but in the "peripherals" tab the NVME section says "no device found". Fastboot off also doesn't help.
Thank you!