Question Please help me with this classic setup? 🙏🏼

[ethical86]

I am a man I need of both help and guidelines.
The reason I need help is because i dont have a lot of money

The issue is I am trying to get my m2 ssd working on my

Gigabyte Z97X - Gaming 3

Which I want to have as my OS drive.

But the bios cant find it, neither diskpart, Windows 10 installer or diskmanager.

The drive is a Toshiba XG3 and I also have a new one from Solide state company or something like that.

I just want this to work,

I have tried different settings from every forum and the disk works. I took the to the CPU store for testing.

What am I doing wrong guys?

Thank u, best regards.

Victor

 

[logainofhades]

Might want to update your bios.

 

[ethical86]

I have tried the f8e one.

 

[logainofhades]

Storage Interface Chipset: - 1 x M.2 PCIe connector - 1 x SATA Express connector - 6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3 0~5) (M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors can only be used one at a time. The SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when an M.2 SSD is installed.)

Do you happen to have drives already connected to SATA3 4/5 connectors?

https://download1.gigabyte.com/File...ing3_e.pdf?v=874ac928d16b0fc69b531dd16560c661

 

[ethical86]

Yes i have tried to have none connected and i read about the 4/5 and none of them is in use. Its like it just wont detect it

 

[ethical86]

It seems like many have had this issue but cant seem to find any possible solution?

 

[stonecarver]

Can I ask are the drives new un formatted. I hit this wall sometime and the cheap and dirty solution is to just unplug your OS drive slap in the new drive by itself and using your windows USB installation media and get to where you can format drive as if your going to install Windows. Do the format.

Than cut the power slap back in your OS drive " without your freshly new SSD" boot PC once or twice to avoid issues than shut down and now try the new SSD.

 

[logainofhades]

Have you tried a CMOS reset?

 

[Zerk2012]

Toshiba XG3 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD. I don't think that board will support a NVME drive in the M.2 slot.

 

[ethical86]

How can i format a drive which I cant see? And the Toshiba disk is 256 gb XG3

 

[USAFRet]

The Z97 era boards had spotty support for NVMe drives.
Some work, some don't. And of those that do, not all support it as the OS drive.

My suggestion - Just use a SATA III SSD.
In that board, you'll never notice the difference.

 

[ethical86]

Just thats probably the end of the Story? It seems like some get it to work and some dont

 

[USAFRet]

Just thats probably the end of the Story? It seems like some get it to work and some dont

Or a faulty drive.
Or not installed properly.
Or BIOS needs to be updated (yes, I know you already went there)


For all the BIOS versions, none of them speak to NVMe booting capability.
Usually, it would specifically state.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z97X-Gaming-3-rev-10/support#dl


If you've found people with this exact motherboard and it works, ask them.

 

[LordVile]

Haswell is classic now?

 

[COLGeek]

Haswell is classic now?

Vintage...

 

[LordVile]

Vintage...