Question PCIe M.2 Adapter Card is not working ?

[mintmechmedia]

Hello friends! I purchased a PCIe adapter for an M.2 NVMe SSD. I already had one space on my board but decided why not get a second one instead of just upgrading the one to more storage. I'm having trouble getting the PC to recognize it. It has power. I will attach the specs below for all of it. Does anyone know what I must do to make it recognize this as a storage device?

MAIWO KT058 M.2 NVME SSD Adapter Expansion Card, NVMe to PCIe X4 X8 X16 Converter Card with Aluminum Heat Sink, LED Indicator,Support PCIe3.0/PCIe4.0/PCIe5.0


ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac AM4 AMD B550 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard

Team Group MP44L M.2 2280 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 with NVMe 1.4 TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FPK001T0C101

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

BIOS version for your motherboard? What do you have populating your other PCIe slots? What processor did you pair with the board?

 

[mintmechmedia]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

BIOS version for your motherboard? What do you have populating your other PCIe slots? What processor did you pair with the board?

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 - Ryzen 5 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM4 65W None Integrated Graphics Desktop Processor - 100-100000927BOX

GeForce RTX 4070 GAMING OC V2 12G Graphics Card, 3x WINDFORCE Fans, 12GB 192-bit GDDR6X, GV-N4070GAMING OCV2-12GD

Bios B55PGA3.40

Also thanks for the welcome

 

[SkyNetRising]

Does anyone know what I must do to make it recognize this as a storage device?

Make sure, you have installed motherboard chipset drivers.
https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550 Phantom Gaming 4ac/index.asp#Download

Then install NVME drivers.
You can get them from Gigabyte windows USB install tool.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?kw=windows&p=1

Note - it doesn't matter if your motherboard is not from Gigabyte. NVME drivers are generic.
Also do not get confused about windows 7. Drivers work for windows 10/11 as well.

Download any windows USB install tool (motherboard chipset doesn't matter).
Extract zip file.
Find \WindowsImageTool\StorageControllers\Intel_NVMe\Driver64
Right click on inf file and choose install.

You can also choose Samsung NVME driver, if you want to.

 

[mintmechmedia]

Make sure, you have installed motherboard chipset drivers.
https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550 Phantom Gaming 4ac/index.asp#Download

Then install NVME drivers.
You can get them from Gigabyte windows USB install tool.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?kw=windows&p=1

Note - it doesn't matter if your motherboard is not from Gigabyte. NVME drivers are generic.
Also do not get confused about windows 7. Drivers work for windows 10/11 as well.

Download any windows USB install tool (motherboard chipset doesn't matter).
Extract zip file.
Find \WindowsImageTool\StorageControllers\Intel_NVMe\Driver64
Right click on inf file and choose install.

You can also choose Samsung NVME driver, if you want to.

I had no success after doing these 🙁 am I missing something?

 

[helpstar]

have a look at the disk management tool of windows. Is your SSD found there? initialize and format to use it.

View: https://youtu.be/YBOyKG8P44Y?t=27


in which PCIe slot did you install the adapter?

try beta BIOS version 3.46

 

[mintmechmedia]

have a look at the disk management tool of windows. Is your SSD found there? initialize and format to use it.

View: https://youtu.be/YBOyKG8P44Y?t=27


in which PCIe slot did you install the adapter?

try beta BIOS version 3.46

Doesn't show up there I've tried a few times. Checked device manager to see if it shows up as storage and doesn't. I've tried all the slots on thr board haha. I will attempt the Bios later when I get home. This should have been an easy install right?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Doesn't show up there I've tried a few times. Checked device manager to see if it shows up as storage and doesn't.

Please show screenshots from

Device manager - disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded,​

Disk Management and​

Windows Storage Spaces (Control Panel/Storage Spaces).​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[helpstar]

yes
check the SSD in the other PCIe slot, if it comes up in BIOS

 

[mintmechmedia]

Some reason now it works... I think it was all the updates you guys gave me. I swear this computer has been one twice since all the updates. This time when I visited disk management it asked what I wanted to do with it.