My ASUS B250M-A board has been working with a i5-6500 CPU since 2017. The board never was able to take any NVMe drive without errors. During the Windows installation, there was always some sort of "corrupted file" error and installed Windows was never stable. I ended up using a SATA drive for the whole time until I retired it recently. I gave away the 6500 CPU and the board was collecting dusts on top of my bookshelf.
Today I obtained a leftover 7100T cpu for free... so why not, I installed it in the ASUS board, and that is when I started to think maybe the NVMe errors were some sort of compatibility between B250 and Skylake chips? so I tried a NVMe drive (SM961 256Gb that had problems before) and voila error free installation of Windows 10.
Is this something already known? Any similar observations?
Today I obtained a leftover 7100T cpu for free... so why not, I installed it in the ASUS board, and that is when I started to think maybe the NVMe errors were some sort of compatibility between B250 and Skylake chips? so I tried a NVMe drive (SM961 256Gb that had problems before) and voila error free installation of Windows 10.
Is this something already known? Any similar observations?