My ASUS ROG Strix B850-i just won't let me see my Samsung m.2 SSD working properly.
My ASUS ROG Strix B850-i just won't let me see my Samsung m.2 SSD working properly.
I built a machine last week with an ASUS ROG STRIX B850-I Gaming MOBO with a Ryzen 9 9900X, and a Samsung 990 EVO 2TB m.2 driver in slot 1 for the OS, and a Silicon Power 2TB drive in slot 2 (under the MOBO) as my DATA drive. I updated the BIOS first , then installed Windows and my programs. I was using the 9900x onboard video through the MOBO HDMI out while I wait for my Video card to arrive. Anyway, everything was working fine . Two days ago, when I started the machine it went straight to the BIOS. There was no boot manager and the Samsung 990 was no longer listed as an installed drive. Only the SP data drive was listed. Assuming the drive was the problem I went through all manner of testing. The Drive shows up on my other machines, and works in a USB enclosure on this machine. However, it is still not recognized by the BIOS when installed. I then tried 3 other drives in this m.2 slot. Two were not recognized by the bios. At present, this Motherboard m.2 slot 1 will not recognize the Original Samsung 990 EVO 2TB, (that once worked) a Silicon Power 2TB, and another 256 MB drive. Only a Crucial 2TB is seen by the BIOS. I will try another Drive that comes today. If it is not seen, then I assume I'll have to dismantle the machine and return the motherboard to Amazon? Thoughts, suggestions?
I have a Samsung 990 EVO 2TB m.2 driver in slot 1 for my OS, and a Silicon Power 2TB drive in slot 2 under the MOBO acting as my data drive. Can you tell me which model the Silicon Power SSD is? To make this easier to understand, what BIOS version are you running on your motherboard? I will try another drive that comes today. If it does not show up here, then I think we have to take apart the machine and send the motherboard back to Amazon. If the board is broken, after resetting the BIOS to either the newest or an older version while other drives all seem fine when tested on donor systems, then yes you should RMA the board.
When I started putting it together, my first move was updating the BIOS to the newest version from the ASUS website. Then I put in a 990 EVO 2TB drive as my main hard drive and put on Windows. Everything worked fine for two days. After that, I added some software and fixed drivers for the AMD chipset and Realtek audio. It still worked okay. But now when I turn it on, it goes straight to BIOS. My OS drive is missing. I tested with other drives just like in the original post. I tried clearing the CMOS but nothing helped. I haven't even tried going back to the factory original BIOS. I'm planning to try that next thing.