Blank screen after adding extra NVMe drive?

[katie279]

Hi all,

Have a PC with two SSDs and one traditional HDD in it.

I've just added an extra NVMe drive to the motherboard (gigabyte ab350-gaming 3) and I'm getting blank screen on boot and it's no longer recognising the other two SSDs disks? (only the new NVMe drive and old HDD) - hence blank screen and cursor as my windows install is on one of the SSDs.

Anyone give me a clue what might be happening here?

Checked in BIOS and can't see the old drives appearing - double checked wires and all look fine - not touched them as just installed the NVMe drive.

Was pondering updating the BIOS as last updated 2017, but nothing really in the changelogs that suggests this is a factor.

Any thoughts/clues welcome!

 

[VersionMonkey]

Which SATA ports have you got your SSDs connected to?

According to the manual for your board, installing an M.2 NVME drive will disable the two SATA ports ASATA0/1 - which are the two half way up the board. If you have an NVMe drive, then you can only use the SATA0-3 ports near the bottom.

 

[katie279]

Ah spot on, moved them and it works perfectly now! Thanks - silly motherboard!

 

[yashiro]

This also means your boot partition is on the HDD not the SSD.