Question Motherboard boots with samsung nvme but not dell

[ctles]

Have an AMI motherboard from an inventory resell that has 6 SATA ports with an m.2 NVME slot,
When i use the a sata m.2 it disables one of the SATA ports. When i plug in a samsung 970 nvme it boots and the other 6 sata ports work fine. But when i try to use a nvme drive from a dell machine it just pauses at bios with a A0 post code and i can't get into the bios? Any way to see why one nvme drive works but another doesn't?

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Target Mobo: Version AIMB-586 Bios BV2.01
Dell Pre-built: mobo dead and tossed not sure but the system was a precision 3640

 

[Lutfij]

Please mention the make and model of the motherboard that the drive is working on. Please mention the Dell prebuilt trying to work with. As a side note, please check and see what BIOS version your Dell prebuilt is on at this moment of time.

 

[Zerk2012]

Have an AMI motherboard from an inventory resell that has 6 SATA ports with an m.2 NVME slot,
When i use the a sata m.2 it disables one of the SATA ports. When i plug in a samsung 970 nvme it boots and the other 6 sata ports work fine. But when i try to use a nvme drive from a dell machine it just pauses at bios with a A0 post code and i can't get into the bios? Any way to see why one nvme drive works but another doesn't?

Does the Dell drive have the OS on it from the Dell PC?

 

[ctles]

Does the Dell drive have the OS on it from the Dell PC?

I've formatted the drive on another computer, cleaned via diskpart and initialized as a GPT same as the samsung, at one point i think i even installed an OS via an enclosure on a different system but when i plugged it into the slot it got the same A0 error.

 

[Misgar]

Any way to see why one nvme drive works but another doesn't?

Is the Dell M.2 drive SATA and the Samsung 970 NVMe? If the BIOS does not support SATA M.2 drives, it will only work with the NVMe M.2 drive.