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For the life of me I can't get my motherboard to recognize that there is a SATA stick in the M.2 slot of my ASRock B450m Pro4. This is an entirely fresh build, I'm unsure if there are special steps for M.2 installations that I'm simply missing.
Specs:
ASRock B450M PRO4 (Bios 1.20)
RYZEN 5 2600 3.4 GHz
16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz
WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB SATA M.2 WDS500G2B0B
ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX 580 8GB
There is a huge difference between SATA M.2 and NVMe M.2 are you positive your motherboard supports SATA M.2 the manual only specifically calls out boot NVMe. M2_2 and SATA3_3 share lanes. If either one of them is in use, the other one will be disabled – Ramhound – 2018-12-31T19:56:03.610
I'm a doof. @Ramhound, it supports both types, I bought SATA and not NVME. – VikingGoat – 2018-12-31T20:28:18.000
1@K7AAY I was reviewing the QVL storage docs, and I plugged it into the wrong m.2 port – VikingGoat – 2018-12-31T20:29:39.793