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I ended up solving the problem by just switching the m.2 ports

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So I just finished putting my computer together and it has an SSD running as its main hard drive. While I'm installing Windows 10 it says no drivers can be found even though I have an SSD in. I take and look inside the computer and I see a constant red light on the SSD and I have no clue what to do now... 

 

My motherboard : B450 Aorus Pro Wifi

The SSD: Team Group MS30 M.2 2280 128GB 

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Just now, vitalsam said:

So I just finished putting my computer together and it has an SSD running as its main hard drive. While I'm installing Windows 10 it says no drivers can be found even though I have an SSD in. I take and look inside the computer and I see a constant red light on the SSD and I have no clue what to do now... 

>SSD?

>Motherboard?

>Drive Controller? (If applicable)

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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Just now, svmlegacy said:

>SSD?

>Motherboard?

>Drive Controller? (If applicable)

I added them in the original post; whats a drive controller?

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1 minute ago, vitalsam said:

I added them in the original post; whats a drive controller?

A drive controller, is the IC that the drive attaches to. Your SSD is NVMe, so it attaches to the PCIe bus, and doesn't have a controller.

Older motherboards / Server gear tends to have special modules to add extra drives / Advanced RAID configurations.

In this case, either your BIOS isn't set up to enable the NVMe drive, or it's a dead drive.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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1 minute ago, svmlegacy said:

A drive controller, is the IC that the drive attaches to. Your SSD is NVMe, so it attaches to the PCIe bus, and doesn't have a controller.

Older motherboards / Server gear tends to have special modules to add extra drives / Advanced RAID configurations.

In this case, either your BIOS isn't set up to enable the NVMe drive, or it's a dead drive.

How would I enable it, and i don't know if it's a dead drive it's brand new from Newegg

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11 minutes ago, vitalsam said:

How would I enable it, and i don't know if it's a dead drive it's brand new from Newegg

I'd advise you to read your motherboards manual, or try a second NVMe drive if possible.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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I ended up solving the problem by just switching the m.2 ports

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