Question M.2 SSD crash while gaming if it's in CPU slot but not from chipset slot!

[anik027]

It's an HP Ex900 500gb M.2 NVMe. In short, the problem is it crashes while playing graphically demanding games if the SSD is in the CPU slot. But if it's in the chipset slot, no issue. I'm wondering if it can be a PSU problem. Does M2A_CPU ssd slot draws power from 4 pin and M2P_SB ssd slot from 12 pin or something like that? Cause this ssd encountered the same crash with an old pc too from M2A_CPU slot. And the crash was more common there (Same PSU). And now the SSD have 99% of health after 4 months of use. Without heat sink, the temp rises up to 53C, with heat sink up to 47C.


Current config:
12100F
Gigabyte B760m ds3h D4
2x8gb ram on XMP
1050ti
Thermaltake smart SE 630W

 

[Lutfij]

Thermaltake smart SE 630W
Not an unit I'd call a PSU for a build.

What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard? Make and model of your SSD?

 

[anik027]

Thermaltake smart SE 630W
Not an unit I'd call a PSU for a build.

What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard? Make and model of your SSD?

Yeah, forgot to mention about that, it's an 6–7 years old PSU, they don't even make it anymore. And I don't think it's a motherboard issue, if it was, then the SSD should work fine with the old motherboard. So maybe the PSU is faulty, but my pc runs fine. The PSU was originally bought for a 4790k+ sapphire r9 280 system. That ran fine too. So, maybe the SSD is faulty, but it's running fine too from the chipset slot. Weird!

Anyway, I made a mistake up there, it's not 512gb SSD it's 500gb SSD. And the motherboard bios version is F1.