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dead Msi meg ace z390 m.2 slot 3?

Wilson Yu
By Wilson Yu
in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
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So recently I got a 8700k, 32gb corsair rams and a msi meg ace z390 for my new built. Everything goes pretty smooth except that I cannot get my motherboard to detect my samsung 850 evo m.2 ssd when mounted at the 3rd slot, the one with msi frozer shield. At first I thought it was a defective board, so I did an RMA with newegg and got a replacement. But again when I tried to mount it in the replacement board's 3rd slot, I got the same problem. My initial thought was that it's a BIOS issue, so I updated my BIOS and tried again, no avail... Could it be that the slot is reserved for NVMe ssd or optane only, since my ssd is sata, that's why it won't work in that slot? Any help would greatly appreciated!

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welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

 

the m2_3 is only for PCIe drives (nVME/Optane) not SATA is the reason is doesn't identify/enable (page 34 of your manual).

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so your prior RMA was not necessary.

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Wow... That's unfortunate, I wish they include a note indicating that on their webpage. 

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