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How can I replace a broken M.2 SSD mounting standoff for my motherboard?
I just bought an ASUS Z97M Plus motherboard.
It has an M.2 socket. Here's a pic of the socket:
I want to install this M.2 SATA drive:
The drive is held in the socket by a screw in a standoff, ...
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Can I insert an M.2 SSD with PCI-Express 3.0 x4 to a PCI-Express 2.0
My motherboard is Asus Z97-PRO GAMER, and the Asus website says:
Z97-PRO GAMER includes an M.2 socket with two native PCI Express 2.0 lanes for data-transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s. This is the ...
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Does M.2 SSD Card mess with PCI express?
My graphic card is MSI gtx970, which uses PCIe 3.0x16. My M.2 SSD card is Samsung 950 pro, which uses PCIe 3.0x4. My motherboard is MSI z-170 pro
I am not very familiar with the difference between 3....
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Does adding Intel Optane make sense when 512G Intel NVMe SSD is in the m.2 slot?
I am confused about intel Optane.
I plan to use an
ASUS Prime Z590-A mobo with
intel i5-11600 CPU and
intel 670P 2280 NVMe 512GB M.2 SSD.
I've read that Optane is a special tech to speed up OS ...
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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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How are the CPU-chipset lanes shared on X570 motherboards?
The basic question is: If there are four PCIe lanes between the CPU and chipset on an X570 motherboard, then how can everything connected to the many chipset lanes be on equal footing with the direct ...
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Motherboard UEFI doesn't detect M.2 SSD drive
I'm building a brand new PC with an ASUS PRIME Z370-A motherboard and a Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 250GB.
However, my motherboard does not seem to be able to recognize the drive as the it neither ...
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SATA-II motherboard and drives but only connected at SATA-I
I have an Abit AB9 QuadGT motherboard which has a SATA-II controller.
Connected to it I have a Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB as boot drive and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 as a data drive. I also ...
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Custom built PC slowly freezes up [closed]
So this is probably one of the weirdest PC issues I have ever experienced. I built my PC in the winter of 2011, so about 1.5 years ago. Here are the stats:
ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 ...
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how do I know if SSD disk can be used with my motherboard [duplicate]
I'm trying to find how to check if particular SSD disc can be used on my motherboard:
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
SSD: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit ...
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How can I determine whether a given SSD and motherboard are compatible?
How can I determine whether a given SSD and motherboard are compatible?
For example, I have an OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTX50G 2.5" 50GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive and a GIGABYTE GA-H67A-...
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Building a new PC - PCI-E lanes and how do they work
I'm looking to build a new gaming PC that will last a while. I want to use a PCI-E x8 SSD + GTX 780 SLI in this build.
Now i'm looking around on the web to see what i need to support this in terms of ...
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Do SSD Pins have to be plugged all the way in?
I'm just trying to figure out how this works.
I just installed a new SSD in my Macbook Air, it's one of these. Have a look at what the pins look like:
When I put it into the slot, for the life of ...
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How should I know if a motherboard support SEDs?
SED (Self Encrypting Drive) are more and more owned due to the rise of SSD.
Most of the time this functionality is not used because most of the motherboards in the market don't have built-in support ...
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Is it worth to buy a SSD for my desktop machine if only support SATA II?
I know that there are similar questions but I was wondering if I could get a little more information about this.
The SSD disk is not cheap at all so I wonder if I'd really notice the difference. I ...
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