Samsung 960 EVO 250GB won't show up in BIOS.

Ferrariassassin · Jun 16, 2017

My CPU is an i5-4690, 4x4GB ram, and motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-H97-GAMING 3https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-H97-Gaming-3-rev-10#support-doc

And it will not pick it up no matter what I do. I only have a 980ti and no other drives. Just my you and a DVD drive for downloading windows. Does my motherboard not support this type of m.2? It fits in perfectly and also other people with the same motherboard had a 960 EVO and it works perfect.

Seanie280672 · Jun 16, 2017

Ferrariassassin :

I had this issue on my MSi motherboard, can you please just try and go ahead and install windows onto it by starting the installer, see if the installer lists it in available hard drives, if so, continue with install, once the first part of the installer has finished and the computer reboots, go straight to the bios and see if it appears as a boot device.

I was there looking for it under sata connections, its my first ever nvme drive, but of course, its not an SATA drive really.

Ferrariassassin · Jun 16, 2017

Seanie280672 :

Ferrariassassin :

I had this issue on my MSi motherboard, can you please just try and go ahead and install windows onto it by starting the installer, see if the installer lists it in available hard drives, if so, continue with install, once the first part of the installer has finished and the computer reboots, go straight to the bios and see if it appears as a boot device.

I was there looking for it under sata connections, its my first ever nvme drive, but of course, its not an SATA drive really.

How do I install Windows to it if it does not show up on the bios as if it's not plugged in?

Seanie280672 · Jun 16, 2017

Ferrariassassin :

Boot off the windows DVD or USB stick, whatever you have your windows setup on, accept the license agreements etc, then when it comes to pick a hard drive to install it onto, see if the 960 is in the list, mine was, but not in my bios, i unplugged all my other hard drives to be sure.

Remember you are probably looking in the bios for it under sata drives, but its not an sata drive, its a PCI-e drive, it will appear under boot devices once you get windows on it.

Seanie280672 · Jun 16, 2017

Let me show you something, have a look at the pictures below, just rebooted quickly to take these, and it didnt show up at all anywhere until I installed windows onto it:

http://imgur.com/vPuYTge
http://imgur.com/4hvevi9
http://imgur.com/yLl8vPY

ed_ritchey · Apr 12, 2018

Is this a brand new SSD or something that was working and suddenly failed?

Have you run DISKPART?

In commandline type diskpart
type help to see a list of commands.
type list disk
a list of your drives should be there. check for yours. If your SSD is there, check for MBR or GPT at the far right. There will be an asterisk *. If there is no asterisk under GPT, then your boot drive is MBR. If commandline sees it but mobo doesn't, then you have to repair it in command line using those commands in diskpart. And some others. There are third party tools as well. You need to ascertain if the SSD is visible in commandline first. (assuming mobo doesn't see it).

In order to repair the hdd/ssd to your computer you have to know if your motherboard is starting from bios or uefi. bios will be the old blue screen style text based screen. UEFI is more modern with A gaming/over-clocking style of layout.

What you do next is dependant on what happens in diskpart.
Hopefully we get it fixed by assigning it GPT. or
It might be as simple as flashing your bios.

Try removing the CMOS battery for a few seconds to reset the bios....if the computer is over ten years old, you should probably replace the CMOS battery.

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