Question One of my M.2 NVME drives works only after reboot

[miniux]

Hello.

I've had the disk in question for less than a year now.
Adata SX8200 M.2 NVMe PCIe 480GB
https://www.amazon.com/XPG-SX8200-480GB-Gen3x4-ASX8200NP-480GT-C/dp/B07BLMP9ZT

I'm using two nvme drives and one sata ssd drive in my pc currently and one day the ADATA nvme drive started to vanish on me whenever I launched PC for the first time in the day. I had to close the PC (don't restart) and relaunch for it to work. Sometimes it did show as working drive but whenever I clicked on anything on it I get errors saying access denied and such - like disk was working fine for a short time to show its contents but can't launch anything. Sometimes turning pc off and on without "physically touching" the drive isn't working either, only works after i put a finger on it so I thought it is maybe a faulty m.2 slot, but i switched my nvme drives around and it's still the same. Is it connector on that m.2 drive being broken somewhere? Should I screw it more in? It worked fine for 10 months without touching it at all.

 

[miniux]

Ok so I realized BIOS and WINDOWS detects that drive as SM2262 before i shut the pc down, apply some pressure on it with my finger and turn PC back on - which result in both BIOS and WIN to detect it correctly as ADATA SX8200 (and it works normally until I close PC for a while - sleep/work)

So maybe it might be something wrong with fast boot...


EDIT: nope fast boot or not , still the same. First pc launch drive is detected as sm2262 and not showing its partitions, turn off pc - touch nvme drive with finger - turn on pc and it works normally. Without touching it still detects it as sm2262 after restart... but after it detects it correctly it works fine til pc shuts down... no idea wth like combination of connection faulty and software faulty???????

 

[MarcusTaz]

Ok so I realized BIOS and WINDOWS detects that drive as SM2262 before i shut the pc down, apply some pressure on it with my finger and turn PC back on - which result in both BIOS and WIN to detect it correctly as ADATA SX8200 (and it works normally until I close PC for a while - sleep/work)

So maybe it might be something wrong with fast boot...


EDIT: nope fast boot or not , still the same. First pc launch drive is detected as sm2262 and not showing its partitions, turn off pc - touch nvme drive with finger - turn on pc and it works normally. Without touching it still detects it as sm2262 after restart... but after it detects it correctly it works fine til pc shuts down... no idea wth like combination of connection faulty and software faulty???????

Did you ever figure out what the issue was that caused this? I have an Adata SX8200 pro that just started doing the same thing. I had my OS installed on it and today booting the PC it only shows up as a Sm2262 and will not boot.