Asus TUF H570 board no longer recognizes my m.2 drive

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Hello fellow TPUers,

I built this computer back in October and it has been performing just fine up until this point. Win10 is installed on a 1tb Samsung 970evo m2.

My experience: I shut the pc down, unplugged it, and installed a new Crucial ssd into sata port_1.
When I booted the computer back up, it no longer recognized any bootable drives. The Samsung m.2 shows up in the bios main menu, but motherborad boot settings are grayed out and I can't figure out how to re-enable the board to boot off the m.2 drive.

I tried removing the Crucial ssd, resetting cmos, reseating m.2 slot, unplugging other USB devices, going into On-board Devices Config to change m.2 from "auto" to "pcie" , but still no go.

(see system specs)

Any advice?
Thank you!

 

[Keullo-e]

Hello fellow TPUers,

I built this computer back in October and it has been performing just fine up until this point. Win10 is installed on a 1tb Samsung 970evo m2.

My experience: I shut the pc down, unplugged it, and installed a new Crucial ssd into sata port_1.
When I booted the computer back up, it no longer recognized any bootable drives. The Samsung m.2 shows up in the bios main menu, but motherborad boot settings are grayed out and I can't figure out how to re-enable the board to boot off the m.2 drive.

I tried removing the Crucial ssd, resetting cmos, reseating m.2 slot, unplugging other USB devices, going into On-board Devices Config to change m.2 from "auto" to "pcie" , but still no go.

(see system specs)

Any advice?
Thank you!

Try another SATA port. Check this (though it shouldn't disable the M.2 drive, but...)

 

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Try another SATA port. Check this (though it shouldn't disable the M.2 drive, but...)

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I appreciate the photo, but at this point I'm willing to disregard the Crucial ssd install and just get the pc back up and running off the m.2 drive.

 

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I also tried setting bios to run in UEFI mode with CSM enabled, but still nothing. Everything was working fine until I installed that 2nd ssd drive. I really don't want to reinstall Windows because I have like 600 gigs of games/data on this m.2 already.
Any magical tips I missed?

Not how I wanted to start the new here. Not having a pc really sucks rn. Why are m.2's so finicky....

 

[Nike_486DX]

Did you try testing the m.2 in a different pc? I had some issues like this (turned out to be dead ssd), but never had a 970 evo so cant relate. If you dont have access to a different pc right now, but do have a spare hdd or ssd, you can try installing fresh windows there and then run some tests on the 970 evo to see if there is any problem.