New NVME caused laptop not to boot even to bios this morning.

[Joxeon]

Got my son a new 500gb NVME for Xmas to use as an additional storage drive in his laptop. I installed it on Boxing Day enabled the drive etc and it's been working fine for the last 4 days.

Today he told me his laptop wasn't turning on so I had a look and found that while the power led was lighting up the laptop would not boot even to bios.

I took it apart to make sure all the connectors were in place and still no luck so I removed the new NVME and it booted up as normal, I put the NVME back in and no boot again. I repeated this a few times and each time it would not boot up even to the bios with the NVME installed.

Then I left it out, went into Windows and updated the bios. Tried the NVME again and it's working normally again.

Any ideas why it would suddenly stop working like this?

 

[Purgatory]

Got my son a new 500gb NVME for Xmas to use as an additional storage drive in his laptop. I installed it on Boxing Day enabled the drive etc and it's been working fine for the last 4 days.

Today he told me his laptop wasn't turning on so I had a look and found that while the power led was lighting up the laptop would not boot even to bios.

I took it apart to make sure all the connectors were in place and still no luck so I removed the new NVME and it booted up as normal, I put the NVME back in and no boot again. I repeated this a few times and each time it would not boot up even to the bios with the NVME installed.

Then I left it out, went into Windows and updated the bios. Tried the NVME again and it's working normally again.

Any ideas why it would suddenly stop working like this?

I would do a firmware update on the new NVME drive too, to rule out an out of date firmware on it that may have known issues. Also check if a new firmware is available for the previous installed one too, to rule out any issues of them fighting when both installed too. See how it goes from there but if the new NVME drive keeps doing that it could be faulty and worth testing in another machine or external NVME caddy when doing that to see if it has ended up in a locked state and giving no access.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

keep bios updated of laptop before adding in new hardware. iv seen this a lot on hp and dell machines be it desktop or laptop they put out bios updates so often they even come as part of a windows update lol.