New M.2 Drive Boot Issues

[Kookie_san]

Hello everyone,

 

New to this forum so any help or suggestions are much appreciated, but on to my issue.

 

I recently purchased a new Western Digital Black M.2 1TB hard drive. After the install, my Kingston SSD boot drive would no longer be recognized at all leading me to stay at the BIOS screen. The system recognized the new M.2 and the other HDD I have as well.

 

I've since removed the M.2 from my motherboard, and now everything is back up and running as was normal.

 

I don't want to boot from the M.2 drive. I was just going to use it for faster file writes/reads.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Here are my current system components if that helps identify a solution...

 

-CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz (No overclocking)

-MOBO: ASUS Strix B350-F Gaming ATX AM4

-Memory: 4 x 4GB Corsair Vengence DDR4-3000 CL15

-Storage: Kingston 240GB SSD & WD Black HDD 1TB

-GPU: ASUS Geforce GTX 1050ti Strix 4GB

 

[Cyracus]

Try moving the Kingston ssd sata cable to use the same port your hdd is using (on the mobo), if it works then, then asus set that (multiple?) sata port(s?) to disable when the m.2 slot is used and didn't make good documentation.

[Kookie_san]

15 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

Try moving the Kingston ssd sata cable to use the same port your hdd is using (on the mobo), if it works then, then asus set that (multiple?) sata port(s?) to disable when the m.2 slot is used and didn't make good documentation.

That seems to have done the trick! Thanks!