Bios not recognizing second M.2 Drive

[mp0991]

Hey Everyone,

 

I have a Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro Wifi Motherboard, and i tried installing two delkin devices 512gb m.2 2280 ssd drives. The bios will only recognize the socket a drive, regardless of which I use. I cant seem to figure out how to get bios to detect both drives. Please see specifications below:

 

Drive: Two delkin devices 512gb m.2 2280 ssd

 

Motherboard: B450 Aorus Pro Wifi

1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_SOCKET)

1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 PCIe 3.0 x2 SSD support)(M2B_SOCKET)

 

[Applefreak]

OK so according to your motherboards manual on page 18, the B socket only supports PCIe-SSDs. The wording is terrible as both are connected via PCIe. I believe they are trying to say that the second socket only works with nvme storage. Your M.2 devices are both SATA 3 based according to the manufacturer. So socket A will work and B will not. You can try to switch them around and see if it makes a difference but I believe not.

[Applefreak]

Also try resetting the BIOS. You need to short the two pins located at the bottom in the right corner, either use a jumper if have one or something metal and hold for 3 seconds.

[mp0991]

Thanks! i did the rest but no luck, you were right about the bottom only supporting nvme. This is annoying but ill have to swap put the drives.