Asus maxiumus vii hero + Samsung evo 850 M.2 SSD

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Note the M.2 part of this SSD

Simply put, this is a new build PC and despite plugging it in and unplugging all the other hard drives and SATA and setting the PCI channel to M.2 mode, the computer will not recognise the m.2 ssd as being plugged in to install windows. Are there extra drivers needed, everywhere i've looked it says not.

Is there a bios setting i've missed?

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The thing is, there is nowhere in the BIOS that it even recognises that there is an M.2 SSD attached at all! I suppose I could put my boot drive into the system from my old system and see if it then recognises it after installing drivers then making it a boot clone. If I get no other solutions I'll try that and report back. I contacted SCAN 3XS ass I bought one of their bundles and I'll wait on them
 
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Hmm, I just found this thread on the ASUS forum, which if some of them are true, really means I better off sending it back unless a BIOS update can changestuff.

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?54470-Maximus-VII-hero-and-M-2-SSD-usage-only-one-PCIE-slot-active

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it now appears that despite some sites sating pcie/sata, asus maximus vii hero is pcie only, so this drive will not work with this board.

a lot of hours lost into this research, so i guess spend an extra 40 quid and buy an SM 951 which 'claims' to be backwards compatible with thi s board technology.

be warned....
 
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no, i've discovered that the issue is the 850 evo m.2 is a SATA m.2 which wont work in this particular ASUS m.2 slot.

it may work in one of the other slots but only function as a data drive, not a boot drive according to samsung who got back to me pretty swiftly.

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Checking the specification of your motherboard I can see the below:




The M2 socket is only for PCIe mode, so the m.2 won't be recognized because it is not PCIe mode, but SSD.

On the other socket, red one, the m.2 should be recognized but the port is only for Data Hard drives, so you won't be able to boot from it, but you can only use the m.2 SSD as storage device.

Please see the full specs of the motherboard at the link below



https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VII_HERO/specifications/



Kind Regards

M. Poloni

Samsung Memory Team

CS10101


 
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