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ASUS Strix X470-I Gaming motherboard with WD Blue SN500 M.2 drive

Hi, I'm having trouble getting my M.2 drive to be recognised by the motherboard. These are my parts:

Mobo: ASUS Strix X470-I Gaming

CPU: AMD A8-9600 (AD9600AGABBOX)

M.2 Drive: Western Digital Blue SN500 NVMe (WDS250G1B0C)

As far as I can tell it looks like it should all work. The drive is a M.2 2280 keyed for B+M. The mobo specs say the M.2_1 slot supports M.2 2280 drives keyed for M with 7th Gen A-Series CPUs. Yet when I boot into the BIOS with my drive in the M.2_1 slot I can't find the M.2 device. I have no OS yet, since I intend to install it on this disk. I have an empty PCIe slot and no drives in the SATA ports. When I boot into a linux live-USB (from which I had intended to install the OS) and list the block devices I can only see the USB drive. I've tried reseating the M.2 drive and resetting the CMOS with no luck.

Is my mobo's M.2_1 slot defective? The manual says the M.2_2 slot is not supported with this CPU but I tried it anyway and got the same result.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Posted Feb 13, 2020, 6:40 AM UTC

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Epic_Phail505•

You’ve only got 8 PCIE 3.0 lanes available and they are probably all allocated to the PCIE expansion slots. I wouldn’t be surprised if that one is just not compatible with the M.2 socket(s). In PCIE mode an M.2 slot “consumes” 4 PCIE lanes to the processor or chipset. With an x470 board your best bet is probably to just pick up a Ryzen chip and then you’re set. 2000 series should be good to go with any bios and 3000 (3rd gen) you may just need to update the bios. Would be a huge upgrade over what you’ve got

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Krimzon_Grey•

Boot up with USB stick with win install , in BIOS make sure to specify the USB is first boot device.

I had something similar happen when installing my system ,.. where it could not see the nvme.

Also make sure you are on latest bios version , particularly if it addresses any storage issues.

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