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  1. Hardware
    Hey, I have a Asus x570 Pro wifi motherboard. Motherboard Manual I have two M.2 slots on the motherboard. Have a pcie gen4 drive in the top one near the CPU and works great at full speed. But I've heard that if you plug in a M.2 in the bottom slot it will disable some of the SATA ports on...
  2. Hardware
    I recently bought a Kingston KC2500 500gb NVMe SSD. It was working fine for the first 2 days. But today when I turned on my PC in the morning, the partitions are gone and all the shortcuts for the programs in the SSD are a white piece of paper. In device manager - Disk Drives, there is only my...
  3. Hardware
    Hey folks, I have a G5 5500 that I'm looking to add an additional M.2 SSD to. The link has a decent breakdown of the machine. I'm looking at installing this 2TB M.2 SSD into the second slot. <- See link. Would anyone be able to tell me if I'm going to cripple my laptop if I do this? Thanks!
  4. Hardware
    Good evening, I installed a Samsung V-NAND SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 into a MSI Z390-A PRO It looks like there's only one slot that would work, there is one below but its definitely for a smaller sized one. I cant get past the BIOS screen (it automatically brings me there). On the device...
  5. Hardware
    Hello, I have an HP pavilion laptop cc1xx when I try to plug the NVME M.2, the laptop doesn't recognize it, also the wifi doesn't work as well as the USB ports. What is the solution
  6. Hardware
    I bought an Acer Aspire TC-885-UA92 Desktop, 9th Gen Intel Core i5-9400, 12GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, 8X DVD, 802.11AC Wifi, USB 3.1 Type C, Windows 10 for my college aged daughter. I included a photo of the NVMe that came with it. It has two notches both M and B Key. It needs both of those keys to...
  7. Hardware
    First, I apologize if this post is in the wrong place. If it is, please move this thread to the proper place. Second, I have seen that there is one question about this exact laptop model and NVMe drives, however, it has been marked closed without any verification to what drive was used and if...
  8. Hardware
    Hello. I bought this adapter for a m.2 drive and the drive inserts into the card just fine. It is that the connection on the card itself is not that of a PCIe slot and does not fit on anything within the motherboard...
  9. Hardware
    Hi guys! I am new to this forum and been seeking any answers in regards to my problem. I have recently bought a Sabrent 1TB M.2 SSD to upgrade my storage/run softwares faster. I have an Asus Prime b350m-a motherboard, plexor ssd and generic hdd. I tried installing the M.2 earlier today hoping...
  10. Hardware
    I just got a M.2 SSD (XPG SX 6000 Lite 1TB) I but it into my MSI Tomahawk B450 Max mother board and had no issues starting it up. I set the M.2 as my windows driver and it worked for like a day or so and then my computer just started to say can’t find a bootable device put one in and...
  11. Hardware
    Hello. I have an Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1 Motherboard and was wondering the compatibility of a M.2 drive or one of those that are even faster than SSD's. Also, if certain generations of the technology may only go so high for this motherboard such as Generation 3 and not Generation 4...
  12. Hardware
    Hello. I have an Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1 currently using Samsung 850 Pro SSD's but am thinking of getting a bigger one that is faster. I have heard of M.2's being up to possibly 4x faster and was wondering if this motherboard can support an older model, if not the latest. There is an...
  13. Hardware
    So... I have a pc for about 2 years now and I use it for heavy gaming, anyway the last one year every time I downloaded a file my free space went way lower than it was intended. For example : I downloaded a 5 gb fortnite update and the space went from 80 free gb to 0 free bytes. Or when I...
  14. Hardware
    ...disk activity. Bit restricted title length there. I have a growing problem with system drive saturation on startup (boot or from hibernation) and for up to half an hour. The C: drive is at 100% with high amounts of reads and writes from Windows Defender, Dropbox, Onedrive, Windows Update...
  15. Hardware
    Hi everyone! I am new here and I just need some advice. I am trying to pick a new SSD to replace my current one in my Acer Aspire R5-571TG-7229. My current SSD according to my Device Manager on Windows is a HFS256G39TND-N210A. It is 256GB. I am currently looking at three new 1TB replacement SSDs...
  16. Hardware
    M.2 installed... No boot to windows just a black screen with _ that flashes on and off. M.2 removed... Boots to windows like it always has. Whenever my son installs an m.2 on the motherboard the pc will not boot to windows. It will not boot to windows from UEFI either when attempting to boot...
  17. Hardware
    I have MSI GL63 8RC., it has ssd slot "1x M.2 SSD Combo (NVMe PCIe Gen3 / SATA )" I'm confused to buy the correct one. I recently saw but can't make sure without help of a pro. so, would you please help me buy this? 1. Western Digital 250GB M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (S250G2B0B)...
  18. Hardware
    Hello, I am thinking about upgrading my computer with an SSD. I'm wondering if there is a reason which could make it work with my motherboard. The hard drive I'm planning to buy is M.2 and my motherboard is MSI H110m Pro-D. Thanks in advance! Also, I'm not a fluent English speaker so if...
  19. Hardware
    Hi, I want to build a external m.2 device but i'm not sure if they are compatible, can someone confirm if they will work please. WDS500G2B0B TS-CM80S Also my laptop has USB 3.1 Gen 2 and thunderbolt 3, Was wondering if i should get a thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C to Type-C cable or will the USB 3.1...
  20. Windows 10
    I decided to format my hd and put my windows onto my m.2 ssd (which was detected by Windows computer manager) but when it came to wanting to instal windows, it only gave me my hd as an option same with my bios. I've tried restarting my MB and looking through bios but no option for an M.2...
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