Mike Nolan

Yeah its because of the VRM heatsink and some other stuff on the motherboard in the way, there’s no way to get it to fit using that module unfortunately

I just had a go at it, can’t even get close to getting it in even to have the pins just come in contact. I’ll see if I can test it on a friends computer tomorrow. But I don’t think the drive is dead because it shows in the bios and in some parts of windows (task manager, device manager) and disk manager just isn’t loading so I cant see any drives.

Yeah the ssd is too long to mount to it unfortunately, and I believe it uses SATA rather than PCIE

Not 100% sure on my exact motherboard, but the settings in the bios let me select it as a boot drive and there are other asus z97 boards where it 100% works. The problem I’m having is it won’t show up in windows installer, and also can’t be initialised when I boot into windows from another drive.

I’ve got an old system with a z97 chipset asus maximus vii formula motherboard and i7 4790k cpu, I just bought a new samsung 970 evo plus ssd and pcie 4x adapter card. After updating the bios, the drive shows up in the bios but when I go to install windows nothing shows up in the installer. When i boot into windows with the old drive nothing shows up in file explorer, but the drive is showing in task manager. When I go to launch disk management it keeps saying “connecting to virtual disk service” but never loads, and the drive shows in windows device manager but the app crashes when I click on the drive. I have installed samsungs drivers too. I looked at other forums saying the disable CSM in bios, but after rebooting it tells me CSM has been enabled to support vga card (I tried this with both my GPU and integrated graphics). So I am unable to boot with CSM disabled. Any ideas on how to get this working?