The Asus Z97 Pro stopped booting after you installed an SSD.
The Asus Z97 Pro stopped booting after you installed an SSD.
Hi everyone. I own a rig with an Asus Z97 Pro gamer featuring a 250GB NVMe drive that was bootable and functioning properly. Recently, I swapped the NVMe drive for an SATA SSD on port 1, but now the system won’t boot from the NVMe device at all. In fact, it only sees the SATA drive in BIOS and doesn’t recognize the NVMe at all. After disconnecting the SATA power and data cables from the SSD, the NVMe still isn’t detected, so the system remains unresponsive. I’m wondering how to get it to boot with the new SSD installed. The original rig worked fine before the upgrade, and the SSD itself doesn’t have Windows—just regular files like music.
Remove the boot drive, reinstall it, and check if the problem is fixed
You should delete the graphics card and then reinstall it. Avoid using the SATA drive; instead, use an NVMe connection.
Ugh, I misplaced one of the screws for the GPU while installing it. I thought it was somewhere in the chassis, but couldn’t locate it. After taking out the card, I felt something rattling and heard it moving inside a hole under the video connectors. I’m really worried I might have shorted out the graphics card!! Please help!
The 2.5 drive was connected to port _4. You might have triggered the BIOS, so reset the CMOS and restart.
It's conceivable that the CPU lanes were shifted to the SATA port rather than the NVMe slot when the SSD was installed. After removing the SATA drive, the lanes might not have been restored to the NVMe slot. There could also be a hardware problem that arose since you started installing the SSD. This situation is unpredictable. Begin by restarting your computer. If you haven't taken it out yet, remove the SATA SSD and reset the CMOS. Attempt to boot again. Should the booted drive not appear, try installing it on another machine or using a USB adapter to check if the drive remains functional. For the SATA SSD, verify that all cables are securely connected and experiment with different ports.
I’m giving up and buying a cheap PCIe NVMe adapter. The board is being stubborn about the NVMe slot, but I still need a PCH swap. My Mii is dead, but my upcoming MVI Hero will be okay. I’ll see what happens when I get those fixed and try to run NVMe on them.
I didn’t reset CMOS the usual way by taking out the battery. I followed step 1.6 in the manual. I don’t need an NVMe drive; the last choice was to put W10 on the SSD, but the PC ran fine before that. If it matters, I recall the SSD installation caused two power cycles and turned the PC off.