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Hello everyone,
I just finished building my first gaming pc and it ran perfectly for the first week. Yesterday after work I got home and turned it on and it would not boot into windows and only boot to bios (MSI B450M Pro-VDH motherboard). After checking the bios menu it showed that my new Crucial MX500 M.2 SSD was not connected. I shut it down, removed graphics card (as the M.2 slot is just behind it) and unscrewed it and pulled it out, then replaced everything and powered it back on ( I tried this twice). Nothing still, just booted into bios and showing as nothing connected. This is weird because, just the night before I had been running the machine and playing games and now today (yesterday) would not boot? I fully powered it down the night before as I normally would any computer.
My question is this. How do I know if it's my M.2 SSD that's bad, or if it's the M.2 slot on the motherboard that is bad? Also, How would I go about erasing the data on the M.2 before returning for a refund/exchange if it's bad?
Thanks in advanced, and new member by the way
I just finished building my first gaming pc and it ran perfectly for the first week. Yesterday after work I got home and turned it on and it would not boot into windows and only boot to bios (MSI B450M Pro-VDH motherboard). After checking the bios menu it showed that my new Crucial MX500 M.2 SSD was not connected. I shut it down, removed graphics card (as the M.2 slot is just behind it) and unscrewed it and pulled it out, then replaced everything and powered it back on ( I tried this twice). Nothing still, just booted into bios and showing as nothing connected. This is weird because, just the night before I had been running the machine and playing games and now today (yesterday) would not boot? I fully powered it down the night before as I normally would any computer.
My question is this. How do I know if it's my M.2 SSD that's bad, or if it's the M.2 slot on the motherboard that is bad? Also, How would I go about erasing the data on the M.2 before returning for a refund/exchange if it's bad?
Thanks in advanced, and new member by the way
Motherboard M.2 Slot
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GIGABYTE B550I AORUS PRO AX AM4 AMD B550 Mini-ITX Motherboard with Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 1, WIFI 6, 2.5 GbE LAN, PCIe 4.0. Support for Ryzen™ 5000 Series with BIOS UPDATE. Number of Memory Slots: 2×288pin.
Mobo M2 Slot
- Both slots support Intel Optane, PCIe M.2 and SATA M.2 so they seem identical to me, and the OS should not care if it it got all the drivers. If you run into an issue, you can always put it back. I guess one of the engineer's at MSI must have had a Brainfart for putting an M.2 Slot right below the GPU.
- Unfortunately, although there are motherboards with M.2 slots that support installing either SATA-bus or PCI Express-bus drives on the same slot, not all motherboards offer that much flexibility. Some have M.2 slots that only support one of those two types.and if it is a PCI Express-bus compatible M.2 slot, it might support only NVME drives.