I recently bought an 8TB SSD to upgrade my 4 year old build. My plan was to remove my old 1TB SSD and install a fresh copy of Windows on the new drive. However, I cannot even get to the BIOS whenever the new drive is installed in either M2 slot on the motherboard.
Specs from my 2020 build:
The new 8TB SSD I just got:
Whenever this new SSD (WD Black 8TB) is installed in either of the motherboard's two M2 slots, the PC fails to POST. It stays stuck with the red DRAM light on the motherboard. Nothing ever appears on my monitor.
If I remove the new SSD (WD Black 8TB) so that there is no SSD in the machine, the PC successfully POSTs making it past the red DRAM light stage and I get to the bios.
If I put the old SSD back in (Samsung 970 EVO 1TB), the PC successfully POSTs and makes it to the BIOS and I can still boot from there into my old Windows install.
I've used an external M2 NVMe enclosure to connect the new drive (WD Black 8TB) via USB and validated that it works (I can see it as a full working 8TB drive).
All of this makes me think that for some reason the new drive is incompatible with the motherboard, but I've checked and double checked and I can't see why.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Specs from my 2020 build:
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z390 SATA 6Gb
- CPU: Intel Core i9 9th Gen - Core i9-9900K
- Old SSD: SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB *Removing this*
- GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB GDDR6
- RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200
- PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G3, 220-G3-0850-X1, 80+ GOLD, 850W Fully Modular
The new 8TB SSD I just got:
Whenever this new SSD (WD Black 8TB) is installed in either of the motherboard's two M2 slots, the PC fails to POST. It stays stuck with the red DRAM light on the motherboard. Nothing ever appears on my monitor.
If I remove the new SSD (WD Black 8TB) so that there is no SSD in the machine, the PC successfully POSTs making it past the red DRAM light stage and I get to the bios.
If I put the old SSD back in (Samsung 970 EVO 1TB), the PC successfully POSTs and makes it to the BIOS and I can still boot from there into my old Windows install.
I've used an external M2 NVMe enclosure to connect the new drive (WD Black 8TB) via USB and validated that it works (I can see it as a full working 8TB drive).
All of this makes me think that for some reason the new drive is incompatible with the motherboard, but I've checked and double checked and I can't see why.
Any ideas? Thanks!