Okay I'll keep this as short as I can. This system is about two years old and I have not changed it much apart from updating the PSU and now I'm trying to add an SSD after three other dead arrivals, Amazon shipping issues and one getting stolen from my porch. (I apparently have super bad luck trying to get an SSD.)
System is windows 10,
MSI tomahawk b550 Mobo
Radeon 5700xt GPU,
32gb Corsair ram,
Corsair 850x PSU,
Ryzen 7 8 core CPU,
The SSD I'm trying to add is a Samsung 980 nvme m.2, I plugged it into m.2-1 on the mobo for CPU power. (My first ssds I'm suspecting may not have been dead but that my mobo is faulty and I wasn't aware all along because really how am I supposed to catch faulty m2. Easier to assume the SSD was dead because the mobo was brand new when I first tried adding my SSD and it couldn't detect any SSD.)
So with context out of the way here is my problem:
System won't detect SSD at all. I assume it needs to be initialized so that means getting into Bios, turning on pcie support and writing the SSD (this is going to be a boot SSD after all)
Restart, del key does not launch bios. Instead it goes to a blank screen. I try going through windows with holding shift and selecting uefi settings. Still get taken to a blank screen I unplug everything except for my monitor to my GPU in the HDMI port (because I have a drawing tablet in the display port that I thought could have been freaking it out?) And that also didn't work. I flashed BIOs, still blank screen. I have unplugged my HDD entirely. Still blank screen.
The only things I have not tried (because I'm lazy and don't want to deal with those damn screws) is just take the SSD back out, but to begin with my system just wasn't reading it as a device in either slot. And I know my boot order was set to prioritize the hdd, I set it that way the first time I had problems with getting an SSD to set up since I gave up trying to use it, so I can't imagine why it would be trying to launch off an SSD it isn't even telling me it can see.
I've been talking with two other buddies, one works in tech and repair and one is just a fanatic and we're all thoroughly stumped. I'm suspecting I've had a weird faulty Mobo with misbehaving m2 slots without knowing it (it's on warranty and I should be able to get help with that if I determine this is the issue) or something really weird is happening with bios...
We also ruled out any gpu problems, my PC launches healthily and normally off the hdd and graphics work just fine, it just boots so freaking slowly and I had always intended to use an SSD for boot with this PC...
And what's frustrating is this is my fourth ssd that this system hasn't recognized. There's no way all four ssds have been doa. It would be a statistical anomaly.
If you have an idea as to something I may not have tried yet please suggest it. I’m saving resetting cmos as a very last ditch effort but it’s looking like that’s just what I’ll have to do at this rate…
System is windows 10,
MSI tomahawk b550 Mobo
Radeon 5700xt GPU,
32gb Corsair ram,
Corsair 850x PSU,
Ryzen 7 8 core CPU,
The SSD I'm trying to add is a Samsung 980 nvme m.2, I plugged it into m.2-1 on the mobo for CPU power. (My first ssds I'm suspecting may not have been dead but that my mobo is faulty and I wasn't aware all along because really how am I supposed to catch faulty m2. Easier to assume the SSD was dead because the mobo was brand new when I first tried adding my SSD and it couldn't detect any SSD.)
So with context out of the way here is my problem:
System won't detect SSD at all. I assume it needs to be initialized so that means getting into Bios, turning on pcie support and writing the SSD (this is going to be a boot SSD after all)
Restart, del key does not launch bios. Instead it goes to a blank screen. I try going through windows with holding shift and selecting uefi settings. Still get taken to a blank screen I unplug everything except for my monitor to my GPU in the HDMI port (because I have a drawing tablet in the display port that I thought could have been freaking it out?) And that also didn't work. I flashed BIOs, still blank screen. I have unplugged my HDD entirely. Still blank screen.
The only things I have not tried (because I'm lazy and don't want to deal with those damn screws) is just take the SSD back out, but to begin with my system just wasn't reading it as a device in either slot. And I know my boot order was set to prioritize the hdd, I set it that way the first time I had problems with getting an SSD to set up since I gave up trying to use it, so I can't imagine why it would be trying to launch off an SSD it isn't even telling me it can see.
I've been talking with two other buddies, one works in tech and repair and one is just a fanatic and we're all thoroughly stumped. I'm suspecting I've had a weird faulty Mobo with misbehaving m2 slots without knowing it (it's on warranty and I should be able to get help with that if I determine this is the issue) or something really weird is happening with bios...
We also ruled out any gpu problems, my PC launches healthily and normally off the hdd and graphics work just fine, it just boots so freaking slowly and I had always intended to use an SSD for boot with this PC...
And what's frustrating is this is my fourth ssd that this system hasn't recognized. There's no way all four ssds have been doa. It would be a statistical anomaly.
If you have an idea as to something I may not have tried yet please suggest it. I’m saving resetting cmos as a very last ditch effort but it’s looking like that’s just what I’ll have to do at this rate…
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