Question M.2 SSD suddenly stops being recognized by the BIOS ?

[Weabman]

Hi everyone,

I have a Silicon Power M.2 Gen 3 SSD (512 GB) i’ve been using it since early 2020, not showing any issues whatsoever until now. Played for 12 hours straight during my day off and when i shut it down and it was on the shutting down screen and it is taking quite a while to turn off and its pretty unusual but i just press and hold the power button and call it a day, now when I opened my PC it went straight to BIOS and could not detect the SSD at all.

I use three M.2 SSD’s. Two slot is from my motherboard (AsRock B450M Steel Legend) and an SSD Adaptor plugged below the graphics card. I tried putting the SSD on the adaptor and it still won’t read it. Will try to use the 2nd ssd slot as well later and will come back with results but I posted this as to check other recommendations or troubleshooting that I can do before it is time to replace it.

My other SSD’s:
Kingston NV1 (1 TB)
Team Group MS30 SSD (1 TB)

 

[Lutfij]

it is taking quite a while to turn off and its pretty unusual but i just press and hold the power button and call it a day, now when I opened my PC it went straight to BIOS and could not detect the SSD at al
It's actually a good thing if you let it do it's thing for as long as it needed to.

AsRock B450M Steel Legend
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

an SSD Adaptor plugged below the graphics card.
Got a link to the adapter you're working with?

Does the SSD show up while all storage drives are disconnected from your system, with it being in the first M.2 slot? I said first since your motherboard has 2xM.2 slots, of which only one will accept an NVMe SSD while the other will only accept a SATA 3 based M.2 drive, per your specs page for the motherboard;
https://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/b450m steel legend/#Specification
so the Silicon Power NVMe drive will only go onto the M2_1 slot.

 

[helpstar]

could be just a faulty ssd
try booting with a windows install stick, does it recognize the ssd?

 

[Weabman]

it is taking quite a while to turn off and its pretty unusual but i just press and hold the power button and call it a day, now when I opened my PC it went straight to BIOS and could not detect the SSD at al
It's actually a good thing if you let it do it's thing for as long as it needed to.

AsRock B450M Steel Legend
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

an SSD Adaptor plugged below the graphics card.
Got a link to the adapter you're working with?

Does the SSD show up while all storage drives are disconnected from your system, with it being in the first M.2 slot? I said first since your motherboard has 2xM.2 slots, of which only one will accept an NVMe SSD while the other will only accept a SATA 3 based M.2 drive, per your specs page for the motherboard;
https://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/b450m steel legend/#Specification
so the Silicon Power NVMe drive will only go onto the M2_1 slot.

thanks for the reply, it's the latest BIOS version, the adapter is a Ugreen PCIE to SSD adapter I've been using it for 2 years on my Kingston NV1 and no problems.

And no, the SSD is not being read with the two SSD's connected, I think it's time for it to be replaced, so sad cause it's my first M.2 SSD back in February 2020.

Thanks for the help as well!

 

[Weabman]

could be just a faulty ssd
try booting with a windows install stick, does it recognize the ssd?

I did use it with the flash drive with windows on it and it does not at all it already says "Drive 1, Unallocated" if i remember on the set-up page.

It did its job for 6 years and probably it's time for it to be replaced as well.

Thanks!

 

[JeffreyP55]

Hi everyone,

I have a Silicon Power M.2 Gen 3 SSD (512 GB) i’ve been using it since early 2020, not showing any issues whatsoever until now. Played for 12 hours straight during my day off and when i shut it down and it was on the shutting down screen and it is taking quite a while to turn off and its pretty unusual but i just press and hold the power button and call it a day, now when I opened my PC it went straight to BIOS and could not detect the SSD at all.

I use 3 M.2 SSD’s. Two slot is from my motherboard (AsRock B450M Steel Legend) and an SSD Adaptor plugged below the graphics card. I tried putting the SSD on the adaptor and it still won’t read it. Will try to use the 2nd ssd slot as well later and will come back with results but I posted this as to check other recommendations or troubleshooting that I can do before it is time to replace it.

My other SSD’s:
Kingston NV1 (1 TB)
Team Group MS30 SSD (1 TB)

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