M.2 SSD does not appear in BIOS

[Spyab]

I have a H610M-DA motherboard, an Intel i5-12400IF and a RTX 4060. I already had another m.2 SSD and when I tried installing another one it does not show up in the BIOS or anywhere else. Could it be that I do not have enough PCIe lanes?

[Sawa Takahashi]

It depends on how you installed the second SSD....

Are you trying to say that you installed a second SSD on that motherboard or that you replaced an existing SSD by another one ?

According to ASUS's website, your motherboard has only 1 slot for an m.2 SSD.

As for the PCI-e lanes, you should be good. You need something like 3 m.2 slots to run out of lanes anyway.

[Eigenvektor]

10 minutes ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

According to ASUS's website, your motherboard has only 1 slot for an m.2 SSD.

I think you're looking at the wrong motherboard, same as I did at first. It's not the ASUS PRIME H610M-D D4, but the Mancer H610M-DA. This board does have two M.2 slots, but the second one is only PCIe 3.0 x2.

 

In any case, what type of M.2 SSDs are we talking about, PCIe or SATA? From what I found only one of these slots supports M.2 SSDs in SATA mode.

 

2 hours ago, Spyab said:

Could it be that I do not have enough PCIe lanes?

The board wouldn't have slots you can't use with the CPUs it supports.

[Sawa Takahashi]

18 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

I think you're looking at the wrong motherboard, same as I did at first. It's not the ASUS PRIME H610M-D D4, but the Mancer H610M-DA. This board does have two M.2 slots, but the second one is only PCIe 3.0 x2.

How can you tell from the original post ? Also, first time I hear from Mancer boards.

18 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

In any case, what type of M.2 SSDs are we talking about, PCIe or SATA? From what I found only one of these slots supports M.2 SSDs in SATA mode.

SATA m.2 SSDs are a rarity these days. Assuming it is a PCIe one is pretty safe.

18 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

The board wouldn't have slots you can't use with the CPUs it supports.

Some boards are sharing lanes between an m.2 slot and a SATA connectors. You can usually select which device to enable/select in the BIOS.

[Eigenvektor]

5 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

How can you tell from the original post ? Also, first time I hear from Mancer boards.

The original post says H610M-DA. The ASUS board is called H610M-D D4. The only board that fits the exact name is the Mancer board. And yes, it's the first time I've heard of them either. Based on the URL, they appear to be a Brazilian brand.

 

5 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

Some boards are sharing lanes between an m.2 slot and a SATA connectors. You can usually select which device to enable/select in the BIOS.

Correct, you can't use both ports at the same time. What I meant is that there wouldn't be a port on the motherboard you could never use at all, because the CPU had too few lanes. That would only make sense if e.g. 14th gen Intel had more lanes than 12th gen, and the motherboard said some ports are only usable on 14th gen.

 

5 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

SATA m.2 SSDs are a rarity these days. Assuming it is a PCIe one is pretty safe.

I'd rather not make assumptions, which is why I asked for clarification.