MSI Gaming Plus X570 board not seeing 860 EVO SATA M.2 SSD 1TB, but see's in in port 2

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Bit of a strange one here, I had a 500gb M.2 Western Digital drive which was nearly out of space, so I purchased the Evo from MM plugged it in to the second M2 port, created and image to the 1TB (which worked perfectly). Shut the PC down and moved the 1TB to port one (M2) and it won't see it in the BIOS, I flashed the BIOS to the latest, still nothing, so both ports work as expected I just can't get the new EVO (OS Drive) to be seen by the board, not a major issue but that's where M2 heat sink is from factory other wise I'd have to buy a new heatsink for port 2 (if that makes sense)

Any ideas before I give up :)
 
OK well I've done some reading
  • Reset the BIOS (still can't see the M2 drive in port 1)
  • Changed the PCI speeds (Nothing)
  • Updated my chipset drivers (Nothing)
Guess I'll just have to leave it in port2 and buy a M2 heatsink for that location :(

Just a bit annoying really as all the ports work fine, maybe its a compatibility issue
 
iMacMart said:
OK well I've done some reading
  • Reset the BIOS (still can't see the M2 drive in port 1)
  • Changed the PCI speeds (Nothing)
  • Updated my chipset drivers (Nothing)
Guess I'll just have to leave it in port2 and buy a M2 heatsink for that location :(

Just a bit annoying really as all the ports work fine, maybe its a compatibility issue
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Update firmware on the m2 drives.
 
Googling the 860 Evo M.2 drive, it looks like it uses the SATA protocol instead of NVMe, and the CPU controlled M.2 slot is only compatible with NVMe drives. The chipset on the other hand usually redirects a SATA port to the M.2 port if it detects a SATA M.2 drive, so I suspect this could be the main reason why the drive is not being picked up on the first slot.
 
Orcvader said:
Googling the 860 Evo M.2 drive, it looks like it uses the SATA protocol instead of NVMe, and the CPU controlled M.2 slot is only compatible with NVMe drives. The chipset on the other hand usually redirects a SATA port to the M.2 port if it detects a SATA M.2 drive, so I suspect this could be the main reason why the drive is not being picked up on the first slot.
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OK thanks, my google skills aren't as strong as I'd like, appreciate the details though! ;)
 
You could just use the 860 as a storage drive and keep the current one as the boot drive. Since it's basically a SATA drive, you won't need a heatsink for it either, it won't get that hot.
 
Orcvader said:
You could just use the 860 as a storage drive and keep the current one as the boot drive. Since it's basically a SATA drive, you won't need a heatsink for it either, it won't get that hot.
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So I have aSN550 (500gb) blow the space and then got these on MM the 860 (1TB) and a Crucial P1 (1TB)
 
iMacMart said:
Would it make sense to have the P1 as my boot drive?
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The P1 is NVMe so it will have fast read/write times compared to the 860, so yes. Assuming your current WD is the SN550 though with 2400mBps/1750mBps read/write there is a slight downgrade in terms of speed, 2000 read and 1700 write, but for a boot drive you shouldn't notice any difference.
 
Orcvader said:
The P1 is NVMe so it will have fast read/write times compared to the 860, so yes. Assuming your current WD is the SN550 though with 2400mBps/1750mBps read/write there is a slight downgrade in terms of speed, 2000 read and 1700 write, but for a boot drive you shouldn't notice any difference.
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Thanks! I'll image the P1 now and use that! ;)
 
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