M.2 SSD not appearing on MSI Gaming M4 Board

[Cthulhu Calamari]

I recently put together my first ever build (I'll post photos once I get this working), but the INTEL SSD 600P Series M.2 PCIe NVMe drive I installed does not show up anywhere: not in the bootable devices selection when fresh installing Win10; not in the Device Manager or My Computer Browser in Windows; and not on the MSI Gaming M5 BIOS Board Explorer, which currently shows the M.2_1 Connector as empty (and I just manually updated the BIOS to the most recent one). I literally bought everything yesterday, new from NCIX: INTEL SSD; Motherboard.

 

Is there something I don't know how to do in the BIOS, or is this drive DOA?

 

[NumLock21]

Check your manual. I think only pcie ssd not sata?

[Cthulhu Calamari]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Check your manual. I think only pcie ssd not sata?

I did read the manual, and both of the M.2 slots are able to function as either PCIe or SATA. Installing a PCIe card in the M.2_1 slot disables PCIe functionality on SATA ports 5 & 6, but I don't have anything in those. I have a DVD drive in SATA 1, and a standard SSD in SATA 2 (which is what I've initially installed Windows on in order to see if updating the BIOS would fix this). I don't see any option to enable PCIe functionality on the M.2 slot in the BIOS, which, as mentioned in the first post, registers nothing at all ATM.

[zMeul]

have you tried the SSD in the other m.2 slot?

it's very possible the SSD is just .. DOA

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

have you tried the SSD in the other m.2 slot?

it's very possible the SSD is just .. DOA

statistically speaking it is far far more probable that the motherboard is faulty than the ssd (ssd's have average RMA rates around .1-.2%, mobos 2-10%).

 

But yea @OP you should really try the other slot just to see. 

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

statistically speaking it is far far more probable that the motherboard is faulty than the ssd (ssd's have average RMA rates around .1-.2%, mobos 2-10%).

this is a very new product; you can't say SSDs can't be DOA because RMA rates are low

the m.2 is nothing fancy, just a straight up PICe 4x connection to the PCH / or SATA - but his SSD is NVMe

[Cthulhu Calamari]

It turns out that the PCIe functionality for those slots was knee-deep in the Advanced BIOS settings, on page 90-M-Effin'-6 of the 106 page manual.

 

Working on that now. BRB

[Cthulhu Calamari]

Oh, nice. After following the manual's guide, on Restart I got a Windows error, auto-restart and now the power light is flashing...

First time build, FML

[Cthulhu Calamari]

...

Now the debug panel is showing a 5d, which other forums have listed as a memory issue, involving RMAs and shit like that.

Can someone here please give me advice that doesn't involve setting up my shitty-ass laptop to work on a paper proposal due Monday...?

[Cthulhu Calamari]

So, for anyone who has the MSI Gaming M5 motherboard, the activiation for the m.2 slots is on page 96 of the PDF manual, and not in the physical manual in the box at all.

 

Problem solved