Question Trouble installing M.2 Drive on to Z97-K REV2.0 motherboard?

[themacman94]

Hi,
I am currently having an issue with installing a brand new M.2 2280 drive onto my board. The drive is supported by the board and I know is working as tested in another laptop/PC.

The problem I am having is that the bios will not pick-up the drive or recognize it what so ever. The weird part is that when I go to install Windows 10. The windows 10 installer will actually find the drive and install Windows perfectly fine. Even after this has finished the PC will not find any boot devices or the drive at all.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

 

[siaan312]

Go inside the Boot menu of the BIOS, then there should be something called "Hard-drive priority menu"
Or something similar, should be a menu inside the boot menu of the bios

meaning
Bios>F7(for advanced settings)>Boot>Hard-drive priorities (or similar)

It should show up there, put it up at the top and the pc will start recognizing it as a bootable drive.

 

[themacman94]

@siaan312 Thanks for the response.

Unfortunatly the device does not even appear in the boot list. It is like the board does not recongnize the drive what so ever.

 

[USAFRet]

What BIOS version are you on?
That board requires v0802 for actual NVMe support.

Z97-K R2.0 - Support

www.asus.com

 

[themacman94]

@USAFRet The Board is on 0903 which is the latest. Thanks.