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So, my PC came in:
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I got my extra HD's hooked up, but there's two things that are annoying/wrong:
1. Every 60 seconds or so one of the fans will start blasting like I'm rolling down a wind tunnel
2. I put my M.2 950 Pro into one of the other M.2 slots, but the PC isn't recognizing it. It recognizes my hybrid drive, but not the 950. Any advices?
This is the PC: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC w this is the mobo: ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-E Gaming, WiFi 6E
I put the 950 Pro in the top M.2 slot. It's kind of confusing which one to use though, so maybe I put it in the wrong spot.
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[edit] Lulz, is that slot disabled for non-11th gen cpus? I have an i9.
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I got my extra HD's hooked up, but there's two things that are annoying/wrong:
1. Every 60 seconds or so one of the fans will start blasting like I'm rolling down a wind tunnel
2. I put my M.2 950 Pro into one of the other M.2 slots, but the PC isn't recognizing it. It recognizes my hybrid drive, but not the 950. Any advices?
This is the PC: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC w this is the mobo: ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-E Gaming, WiFi 6E
I put the 950 Pro in the top M.2 slot. It's kind of confusing which one to use though, so maybe I put it in the wrong spot.
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[edit] Lulz, is that slot disabled for non-11th gen cpus? I have an i9.
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Think I’m good in that regard, since the 1 M.2 doesn’t work w Gen 9, heh.
Yeah, that was my suspicion. Sigh, now I gotta take out this vid card again, which is pretty annoying.
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Did you go into disk management and initialize it? m.2 supersedes sata so the satas will turn off before the m.2 doesnt work
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No, but I think the issue is that I put it in the M1 slot which doesn’t work w Gen 9 processors.
I’ll move it to the middle M2 slot and then try to initialize.
Any of you have advice for transferring files from the 950 Pro to the new HD, so it’ll boot w all my stuff?
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I had 2 m.2 on my 9900k build so not sure why that would be an issue unless its a motherboard issue with the one that came with it. Id try to make sure it is or isnt seen in Device Manager then go into disk management and see if you can initialize it.
Both of them*
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I’ll try that first. But, the MOBO does say the M1 slot only works w Gen 11. Not a big deal since there 4 M.2 slots.
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Oh in that case put them where ever so long as they work lol - but yeah i didnt fully read - use slot 2 and 3 since its a 10th gen and that should solve the issues
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So, I moved the 950 Pro from the M2_1 slot to the M2_2 slot and it's still not showing up.
I did some searching and apparently two of the m.2 slots are from the CPU (1-2) and two are from the chipset (3-4). The CPU lanes are shared with the PCIE Express graphics slots, so you need to actually enable the CPU to "bifurcate" those lanes, so they are not enabled by default. This will take lanes from your video card or potentially disable the second X16
My question is should I keep it in the M2_2 slot and just bifurcate in bios or should I move it to the M2_3 or 4 slot? After removing the video card 4x I do NOT want to do it again.Apparently in the bios its Advanced > Onboard Devices Configuration > CPU PCIE Configuration Mode, but I have no idea what to set it to to get the result I want.
The manual did not cover any of this, REEEEEE.
I did some searching and apparently two of the m.2 slots are from the CPU (1-2) and two are from the chipset (3-4). The CPU lanes are shared with the PCIE Express graphics slots, so you need to actually enable the CPU to "bifurcate" those lanes, so they are not enabled by default. This will take lanes from your video card or potentially disable the second X16
My question is should I keep it in the M2_2 slot and just bifurcate in bios or should I move it to the M2_3 or 4 slot? After removing the video card 4x I do NOT want to do it again.Apparently in the bios its Advanced > Onboard Devices Configuration > CPU PCIE Configuration Mode, but I have no idea what to set it to to get the result I want.
The manual did not cover any of this, REEEEEE.
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so what youre saying is, you bought a pre-built system with 2 upgrade slots that cannot be used as upgrade slots b/c of the cpu that the pre-built system came with?
this makes no sense
i believe i also read that, that pcie x16_4 (the one that will be sacrificed) will also disable 2 sata ports...
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Kinda, I think the M2_2 slot just "shares" lanes with the PCIe in that lane (which is my 3080). If I moved the 3080, I'm guessing it would no longer share those lanes.
