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How do I add a new SSD to an old mainboard?
My knowledge of this stuff is out of date, and judging from the research in the Qs here, I've missed a lot.
I have an older Gigabyte mobo with PCIe3 slots, but not M.2-capable ones. One PCIEx8 slot is ...
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What NVME speeds should I expect from this motherboard's PCIe slots?
I am testing this board: Gigabyte B550M DS3H > pdf manual
It has two M.2 slots and I want to also use two PCI-e connectors with adapters to add 2 more NVME drives (so 4 in total). It is for a MySQL ...
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Will an M.2 M Key motherboard connector always support NVMe, or does NVMe support need to be explicitly stated in the manual?
Apologies this may be a basic question, but after much reading of sometimes contradictory information I wanted to check whether my understanding is correct.
I'm upgrading a PC, and want to add M.2 ...
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How to diagnose/distinguish motherboard/CPU issues?
For the last few months my PC is acting weird. Random App crashes, Chrome tab crashes, memory errors, apps simply disappearing, BSOD with errors not helping at all, random restarts (Event-log shows ...
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Can motherboard be bottleneck for ssd speed on sata?
I have a computer:
ASRock A320M-DVS R4.0 motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU
AMD Radeon R9 Gamer Series 16 GB RAM
2 x Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB SSD
I'm testing SSD write speed on newly installed Ubuntu ...
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Laptop Crash - Event 41
I have just upgraded my laptop. Before, I had two same ram each 2GB DDR3. Everything was working fine. For 5 years without any issue!
So, decided to upgrade laptop. Bought a 4GB DDR3 ram, Alternate it ...
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Can I boot from an NVM drive on an old mainboard?
I have an old GA-990FXA-UD3 mobo which was fabulous at its time (still works nice today even if it is 9 years old).
I got from a friend a NVM 256GB disk. Can I install it via a PCIe addapter and boot (...
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Inaccessible Boot Device after m.2 SSD upgrade
I've replaced my old m.2 256GB Samsung XP941 SSD, my boot drive with Windows 10 installed, with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus. This is on an MSI X99S SLI Plus motherboard that was recently upgraded to the ...
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PC on and off loop , the longest it can stay is 30 minutes then automatically turn off and on again
Went to three repair shops - 2 said its motherboard & 1 said power supply when I request to repair the motherboard, but they don't have tools to confirm it if its really PSU issue.
Asking one more ...
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BIOS doesn't recognize my M.2 SSD
I've decided to upgrade my PC by adding a second M.2 SSD, but my BIOS doesn't recognize it
new SSD
Motherboard
BIOS: American Megatrends
The motherboard contains two M.2 NVME slots and as I understood ...
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Does my motherboard supports NVME SSD or SATA ssd
I plan to purchase onboard SSD, but I am not sure whether my board supports M.2 SSD 6Gbps SATA or NVME logical intefaces. Below is the specification of my motherboard.
Board Name: Gigabyte GA-A320M-...
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Hard or Solid state disk for a 10-years-old motherboard
I have M4N68T-M LE V2 ASUS motherboard with 4x Serial ATA 3Gb/s. The MB is ten years old. Its old 300GB SATA disk just died and I would like to buy a new 1TB SATA HD or even a 480 GB SSD. Any way to ...
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Samsung 970 Evo Plus in PCIe adapter disconnecting when copying large files to it
I've just installed a new Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe in my computer as a storage drive for large files plus some swap. I've got an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard which doesn't have an M.2 slot, so ...
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Will I be able to use sata 3 ssd with my current motherboard and if so will I be able to achieve reasonable performance gain
Currently I am using ASUS P5QPL-AM motherboard. This motherboard support the following storage system
So my current hardware configuration is :
motherboard : ASUS P5QPL-AM (ddr2)
ram : 4GB (ddr2)
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I need to choose an SSD to suit my motherboard, either M.2 or SATA III [closed]
I admit upfront my ignorance of modern PC architecture, I stopped building a few years ago, but I want to add an SSD to my own system, either M.2 card (SAMSUNG 970 EVO 'MZ-V7E1T0BW' NVMe 1TB, or a ...
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The IO operation at logical block address for Disk 1 was retried warning after Windows freezes
I have a Dell XPS 8930 desktop computer that has been freezing intermittently since I got it new. I've tried quite a few remedies, including several fresh installs of Windows, but nothing has worked. ...
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Is Samsung 970 EVO SSD compatible with Gigabyte GA-250M-DS3H
The Samsung 970 EVO SSD is currently on sale for Cyber Monday and I'm looking to purchase it. I just want to confirm that it will be compatible with my motherboard. I have a Gigabyte GA-250M-DS3H. ...
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Can my motherboard use this SSD?
I'm very new to the whole upgrade your PC thing, and I wanted to know if a particular SSD can fit my Motherboard, and if so/not, why.
SSD I want to upgrade to:
Intel 900P Optane NVMe PCIe 280GB
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NVMe performance lag and strange activity LED blinking
Installed NVMe (WDSN750 1TB) in the M2 slot on Asus Z170 Deluxe.
It rocks PCIe3 (x4) so it reaches correct speeds (up to 3GB/s).
However, I've noticed that sometimes the system (W10) waits for the ...
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BSOD Critical Process died maybe SSD related
It's been some time now I'm getting BSOD and reboots (generally message is critical process died). It seemed to appear after I moved house or after I move my computer. I kinda "resolved it" ...
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New PC doesn't boot into any OS from any source after windows update (pls help)
I built my first PC two days ago, hooked it up to a monitor, plugged a usb with Windows installation media, installed Windows Enterprise LTSC (i use it on my laptop and love it), and started updating ...
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SSD drive vs. SSD motherboard stick
Here is what I have in my windows PC box now:
https://www.adata.com/rs/specification/410
It appears there is an available slot + power for 1 more SSD drive and I want to buy this one:
https://www....
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Is this SSD compatible with my motherboard?
I have an ASRock 970 Extreme4 (SATA 3, 6Gbps) motherboard, and wanted to know if this SSD is compatible with it:
I know that it is usually for notebooks.
Anybody have any idea?
Thanks.
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Is booting from an NVMe SSD possible on all motherboards without the UEFI BIOS?
Can I boot with an NVMe SSD on an ASUS P5G41C-lX-M Motherboard which doesn't use the UEFI BIOS? BTW I am using an M.2 to PCIe 1x adapter to connect it to the mother board.
I just wanted to know if it ...
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Will an M.2 NVMe SSD take up PCIe lanes used by PCIe ports on my motherboard
As for my specific situation: I'm running an Asrock B450-HDV R4.0 with a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU and a Geforce 1080 GPU. As the board does not come with onboard WiFi, I intend to install a network card in ...
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AHCI required for new SSD?
I do not know too terribly much about computers, but I wanted to try to install SSD as my new boot drive. My computer does not have AHCI and I'm not sure how to update my BIOS or if it will even give ...
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Can I use PCIe SSD card in my motherboard?
My motherboard Name: GA-H61M-S2PV (rev. 2.2)
Detail link: https://www.gigabyte.com/bd/Motherboard/GA-H61M-S2PV-rev-22/sp#sp
Expansion Slots:
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
(The PCI ...
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Diagnose failure of motherboard to recognize an M2 drive
I have a WS C422 Sage/10G motherboard which supports two M.2 slots. I got 2x Inland Premium 1TB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drives to go into those slots. According to ...
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Kingston A400 M.2 SSD doesn't show up in BIOS in Aorus Motherboard
I was building my first PC gamer by my one with motherboard Aorus B360M Gaming 3 (rev 1.0) and everything worked out fine, except for my M.2 Sata Kingston A400 480gb SSD. I freaked out because I don't ...
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Cant find bios update for Gigabyte motherboard [closed]
I am having a hard time finding a bios update anywhere online for the Gigabyte Motherboard GA-P67A-UD3R-B3.
Its on bios version F2 which is way outdated and im having trouble having it boot from an ...
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