Fraser Cow

That was indeed the problem, thanks for your help!

The drive shows up in device manager. I ordered another adapter so I'll see what happens tomorrow.

Yes, there is one NVMe slot on the board that is currently occupied by a 500Gb Samsung 960evo.

Ryzen 1600 16GB 3200Mhz Asus prime X370 3060 Boot Samsung 960evo NVMe 500GB 4 sata HDD/SSD Corsair 750w Windows 10 64 Bios: either 5601 or 5603 can't remember. So today my brother bought a Samsung 970evo 2TB along with a pci-e to M.2 adapter. When I installed it and went to "manage" in This PC to format it, it popped up normally, but when I clicked format for either MBR or GPT it gave me an error of "Device which does not exist was specified " I took the drive to a different PC with a 10th gen Intel CPU and got the same error, until I plugged the drive into a free M.2 slot on the Intel system, then it worked completely normally and allowed me to format it. After formatting the drive in the M.2 slot, I put the drive back in the adapter and plugged into the Intel system again and it showed up normally and ran a benchmark without issues. I plugged the formatted drive back into the Ryzen system with the adapter and now it doesn't show up as formatted and still doesn't allow me to format it. The adapter is an 8X slot for some reason so I've been plugging it into 16X slots, I wonder if that's part of the issue since some boards split bandwidth when two 16X slots are used. I'm not sure if theres a CPU comparability issue or if it's the motherboard/chipset. Thanks in advance.

So I work for a small WISP and we have two pocket ethernet boxes. For some reason after upgrading to V33 every cable test says we're missing a brown and an orange, so I'm hoping to downgrade to V29 or something to see if anything changes, but I can't make an account on their forum because registration is closed. If someone can get me the older version I would really appreciate it. Thanks

Good day all, I recently started playing No Man's Sky and the performance is driving me crazy! the issue isn't low FPS, it seems to be huge FPS dips. The game seems to max out a single core and I think that might be what's causing the huge dips, I've tried editing the high and low CPU numbers in this file "TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML" and I don't see any real improvement. I almost always see 60FPS plus at native 1440p or with DLSS On. The hitching and dips are killing the game for me, if anyone has some ideas for me to try I would love to hear them. Windows 10 newest version available Newest Nvidia driver Game is newest version running via Xbox app (Xbox game pass) Acer Predator 1440p 165Hz G sync On i7 8700K @4.8 Ghz RTX 3080 32GB 3200Mhz Game is installed on 2TB Crucial Sata SSD PSU is an EVGA 1050W 80+ platinum

This is everything I would have said. I will add that you could try using a VPN to download from steam, It may bypass any limiting your school has put in place. Also is your laptop's drive an SSD or HDD? maybe it's at capacity?

I going to pop the old hard drive into the new PC to do the clone to the NVMe so the old pc won't be a factor here.

Hi, I'm working on a small business PC that's running windows 7 and has accounting software on it. I really don't want to deal with installing all the software or losing any accounts or files, so I'm hoping to clone the drive to an NVMe before installing it in the new PC I built to replace the old one. My questions are... should I upgrade to windows 10 before I clone or after? and will the new PC be able to boot off the NVMe since it's a legacy install? Is it possible to convert a windows install to UEFI? Thanks in advance!

You can activate windows 10 with a windows 7, 8, 8.1 Key.

Should be totally fine.

Hi, I've been trying to troubleshoot the coil whine that's coming from my PC and I've hit a brick wall. I can hear the coil whine though my speakers and directly from my PC when my speakers are powered off. The biggest issue is that it also leaks into USB devices like my microphone and headphone amps, I bought a Behringer UM2 and my friends were complaining that there was a lot of static and electrical noise when I talked, so I tried plugging into the USB hub in my monitor and that fixed the problem in my mic. Something strange I've noticed is that there is no noise in the UEFI menu. Thing's I've tried I tried 3 different power supplies Removing GPU Setting clock speeds to default Disabling audio controller in UEFI Disabling WiFi and Bluetooth in windows Updating UEFI to F15a Plugging PC directly into the wall instead of UPS Specs i7 8700k Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 5 EVGA 1000W 80+ Platinum (also tried Old Cooler Mater 850W and a 600W Corsair) 32GB Gskill 3200Mhz Asus GTX 1080ti Noctua Redux fans Samsung M.2 NVME 500GB Samsung Sata 500GB Crucial Sata 2TB Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Fraser

It's not worth it, you can get a 960 for like $100USD. You can also check out the EVGA website, they normally have B-stock for cheap. AMD RX400 series cards are pretty cheap now too.

First upgrade is an SSD boot drive, next power supply, then CPU, then GPU, Then Case

Have you tried booting with just one ram stick? x58 can be picky about ram.