Help needed please

silverginger · 28 Apr 2020 at 19:37

So i brought WD BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 Drive to go into my MSI B450 Tomahawk MB.Anyway i installed it the way the MB Manual says and it wont boot up i get the DP symbol on the monitor screen but then thats it nothing after.Ive tried pressing F11 to acess the boot menu but even that dont work. Im using a 250gb Samsung SSD already as my boot drive and also have a 1tb HD for bits and pieces as well and im planning on using the M.2 as a games drive. Has anyone got any idea whats wrong and how to rectify it?

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 11:01

silverginger said:
So i brought WD BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 Drive to go into my MSI B450 Tomahawk MB.Anyway i installed it the way the MB Manual says and it wont boot up i get the DP symbol on the monitor screen but then thats it nothing after.Ive tried pressing F11 to acess the boot menu but even that dont work. Im using a 250gb Samsung SSD already as my boot drive and also have a 1tb HD for bits and pieces as well and im planning on using the M.2 as a games drive. Has anyone got any idea whats wrong and how to rectify it?

Try going into bios by pressing delete on keyboard as you turn pc on and make sure your ssd is the boot drive in the bios and not the m2 hopefully that should sort it for you

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 12:37

alex h said:
Try going into bios by pressing delete on keyboard as you turn pc on and make sure your ssd is the boot drive in the bios and not the m2 hopefully that should sort it for you

Thanks for the reply mate thats just it i cant get into the bios i just get a blank screen and when i take the M.2 out it boots up fine.Im assuming its trying to boot off the blank drive with no sucess.Is it worth creating a boot usb?

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 12:48

silverginger said:
Thanks for the reply mate thats just it i cant get into the bios i just get a blank screen and when i take the M.2 out it boots up fine.Im assuming its trying to boot off the blank drive with no sucess.Is it worth creating a boot usb?

I'd say it's trying to boot from the blank drive you should be able to get into bios from boot by keep pressing delete key repeatably you could make a bootable usb then put Windows on your new drive then switch them over but I'd try to get into bios from boot up first

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:32

alex h said:
I'd say it's trying to boot from the blank drive you should be able to get into bios from boot by keep pressing delete key repeatably you could make a bootable usb then put Windows on your new drive then switch them over but I'd try to get into bios from boot up first

Well i tried pressing the Delete key repeatedly and it made no difference.Still just a black screen

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:38

That's weird usually goes into bios can you get into bios with just ssd installed

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:44

Yeah as soon as i take the m.2 drive out everything is fine

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:46

It should boot as normal from the ssd
Not mixing up M2 sata and nvme ports are you?
Assuming that motherboard has more than 1 x M2 ports I haven't seen the specs for the board

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:57

Mcnumpty2323 said:
It should boot as normal from the ssd
Not mixing up M2 sata and nvme ports are you?
Assuming that motherboard has more than 1 x M2 ports I haven't seen the specs for the board

Hiya theres only one port and this is what the spec on the MSI website says
1 x M.2 slot (Key M)1

Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD® Ryzen™/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD® Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Graphics) or PCIe 3.0 x2 (Athlon™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics) and SATA 6Gb/s 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 16:58

Mcnumpty2323 said:
It should boot as normal from the ssd
Not mixing up M2 sata and nvme ports are you?
Assuming that motherboard has more than 1 x M2 ports I haven't seen the specs for the board

Yes hadn't thought of that try putting the sata cable to the ssd in another sata port incase the one youve got your ssd in is disabled due to useing m2 drive

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:00

alex h said:
Yes hadn't thought of that try putting the sata cable to the ssd in another sata port incase the one youve got your ssd in is disabled due to useing m2 drive

It says ports 5 and 6 cant be used with the M.2 fitted but i dont use them anyway

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:05

silverginger said:
Hiya theres only one port and this is what the spec on the MSI website says
1 x M.2 slot (Key M)1

Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD® Ryzen™/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics and 2nd Gen AMD® Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Graphics) or PCIe 3.0 x2 (Athlon™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics) and SATA 6Gb/s 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110 storage devices

populating the slot with a drive will however disable two of the six available SATA ports; specifically the two right-angled ports closest to the 24-pin motherboard ATX power input.

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:09

Mcnumpty2323 said:
populating the slot with a drive will however disable two of the six available SATA ports; specifically the two right-angled ports closest to the 24-pin motherboard ATX power input.

Yeah it disables Ports 5 and 6 but i dont use those anyway

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:16

silverginger said:
Yeah it disables Ports 5 and 6 but i dont use those anyway

Yeah think I posted same time as you said it sorry
No other pc you can test the M2 in?
Does bios have a enable /disable m2
Option?
Though obviously if it does you need to enable before fitting it
Brave enough to boot off the ssd then plug the M2 in with the pc running?

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:21

Right just done a search on internet looks like you might have to disconnect your ssd mate and install windows on the m2 then add your ssd go into bios then and set it to boot from ssd and save then boot into windows useing ssd and then format m2 drive should work fine then

silverginger · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:25

alex h said:
Right just done a search on internet looks like you might have to disconnect your ssd mate and install windows on the m2 then add your ssd go into bios then and set it to boot from ssd and save then boot into windows useing ssd and then format m2 drive should work fine then

Yeah thats what i was hoping to avoid but if its gotta be done then its gotta be done lol

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:27

silverginger said:
Yeah thats what i was hoping to avoid but if its gotta be done then its gotta be done lol

Just put windows on no updates shouldn't take long really on a m2

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:27

Shouldn't really need to do all that
Though no experience with that board at all so not saying Alex is wrong
My x570 I just installed 3 x m2
Booted it up as usual from the ssd and
Formatted the 3 x M2 job done
But guess that's a budget board so
Possible alex is correct

Alex h · 29 Apr 2020 at 17:52

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Shouldn't really need to do all that
Though no experience with that board at all so not saying Alex is wrong
My x570 I just installed 3 x m2
Booted it up as usual from the ssd and
Formatted the 3 x M2 job done
But guess that's a budget board so
Possible alex is correct

I agree shouldn't have to it's a strange one wont even let him get to bios to swap it over to boot from ssd

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Apr 2020 at 19:17

alex h said:
I agree shouldn't have to it's a strange one wont even let him get to bios to swap it over to boot from ssd

Have learned never to say never when it comes to pcs lol
So although should not be necessary it may well turn out to be lol