New NVMe SSD not working in only a specific slot
Tldr: motherboard update and specific ssd incompatibility
Hoooooly shit this is so stupid.
I did everything I could think of, I messed with every bios setting labeled m.2 and even those that werent, I restarted dozens of times, I got out my old computer just to make sure this brand new SSD didnt have a weird issue where it doesnt work in slots that connect directly to the cpu, and I could not get this damn thing to turn on. I was seriously considering swearing off motherboard refurbishers forever, returning this one to get my money back, and buying a new motherboard because this issue seemed so damn unfixable, I was worried it was a part of a huge underlying issue with the cpu connections that was going to cause performance issues well into the future.
Turns out, MSI has had a long standing bug with this EXACT motherboard and this EXACT ssd pair that they havent fixed for over a year!
It was so ridiculous to me that there could be this kind of incompatibility issue that I never googled the two parts names together at the same time when looking for ways to troubleshoot. Jokes on me I guess, because it would have saved me like 5 hours of effort.
I did downgrade my bios to version 7E12v14 from August of 2023 like the reddit post suggests, and it worked immediately, no bios change required at all. This issue has gone unfixed in what seems to be 12 bios patches and close to a year and a half, since it didnt work even in the update made last month!!!
I guess that resolves my issue then. Ill go see if I can find an ssd that actually works in my motherboard then, since I dont think not having any bios updates for the forseeable future just for a slightly faster port is safe, but I would like to use the port if its faster since I did buy it. I also probably wont ever buy an MSI board again if I ever decide to upgrade in the future, so this was a useful lesson I guess.
Anyways, thanks everyone for the help!
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