MoBo destryoing M.2

[MChrisp]

Hi everyone,

 

I build a PC for my mother about a year ago and after a short while she got regular blue screens. I could not find out, what the problem was, as I never catched the error of the blue screen. After 9 months windows wouldn't start and also I was not able to boot from a windows installer usb (it kinda started, but I only got a violet screen an frozen mouse).

I checked the M.2 SSD and i would not register at all in the bios. At my PC it registered that something was connected, but no information about the ssd itself.

So i thought, the SSD was gone. Bought a new on... Still blue screens occasionally. So it was not the SSD. 

 

Now Windows will not start again (SSD ist registered correctly as bootable but will only show black screen and than return to bios). Ubuntu from a stick works fine.

 

Has anyone a clue, what might cause this issue? At this point I guess it is the Motherboard, or the PSU through the Motherboard. 

 

MoBo:

Asus PRIME A320M-K 

PSU:

Plenty of power for this build, but old.

CPU:

AMD YD200GC6FBBOX Athlon 200GE

SSD:

Corsair Force MP510 240 GB 

 

 

 

[Sir0Tek]

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Ubuntu from a stick works fine

Does Ubuntu see the M2.ssd, is it able to access it?

[MChrisp]

2 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

Does Ubuntu see the M2.ssd, is it able to access it?

I am not familiar with ubunta at all, but it did not show in the the file manager on the left menu and I could not find it anywere else. So I guess no. Same thing happend with last ssd, so probably same issue.

[Sir0Tek]

6 minutes ago, MChrisp said:

I am not familiar with ubunta at all, but it did not show in the the file manager on the left menu and I could not find it anywere else. So I guess no. Same thing happend with last ssd, so probably same issue.

The file-manager (Nautilus, I guess) does recognize partitions/file-systems. Try if gparted does show the drive.

What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[MChrisp]

3 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

The file-manager (Nautilus, I guess) does recognize partitions/file-systems. Try if gparted does show the drive.

Is there something specific you need to know about the drive? I do not have the PC at hand. I can only tell you, that last time this happend not even the bios registered the ssd correctly. So there is no chance, gparted will...

[Sir0Tek]

12 minutes ago, MChrisp said:

Is there something specific you need to know about the drive? I do not have the PC at hand. I can only tell you, that last time this happend not even the bios registered the ssd correctly. So there is no chance, gparted will...

So the ssd isn't shown on both computers? I thought it did show something at your pc. And what about the m2-slot in general? lspci should show all pci(e) ports found.

[MChrisp]

22 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

So the ssd isn't shown on both computers? I thought it did show something at your pc. And what about the m2-slot in general? lspci should show all pci(e) ports found.

If I remembered correctly, it showed the slot, but could not get drive information on my machine. Nothing on the other.

[MChrisp]

I found the problem. Was a shortage in an SATA Power connector. It actually burned and melted some cables. Some of which were connected to the Mainboard. (Power Switch, front USB 2, other power connectors) It was pretty hidden, so I only found it after rebuilding the PC. Guess it fried the Mainboard occasionally and with it the ssd.