https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:09:05 +0000 Tue, 04 May 2021 23:04:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=18738 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86828&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86828 Author: ket
Subject: 18738
Posted: 04 May 2021 at 11:04pm

Some more things that come to mind you can try;

1. Do you have a different M.2 drive to put in the slot to make sure this isn't one of those weird cases where the system decides to start arguing over something it was perfectly happy with before?

2. I'd also do an SFC and chkdsk pass on the M.2 drive to make sure the file system isn't damaged and theres no files that got corrupt. After those checks if the drive appears to be working fine I'd even just put it back in the M.2 slot and see what it does I've had plenty of times when moving something from one slot back to the other has put things back to normal.

3. Did you happen to do a UEFI update at the same time as cleaning? If so might be a bug in the firmware.]]> Tue, 04 May 2021 23:04:25 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86828&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86828 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86824&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86824 Author: DaveKR
Subject: 18738
Posted: 04 May 2021 at 10:25pm

DaveKR wrote: Yes I tried doing that via BIOS but nothing changed. I don't think the pins got damaged, as you can see by this photo https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/523922237804511232/838147214718664765/Screenshot_20210501-221712.jpg?width=298&height=629

Wrong link, here's the right one

https://imgur.com/a/GCblLoj]]> Tue, 04 May 2021 22:25:50 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86824&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86824 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86823&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86823 Author: DaveKR
Subject: 18738
Posted: 04 May 2021 at 10:23pm

Yes I tried doing that via BIOS but nothing changed. I don't think the pins got damaged, as you can see by this photo

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/523922237804511232/838147214718664765/Screenshot_20210501-221712.jpg?width=298&height=629

]]> Tue, 04 May 2021 22:23:36 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86823&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86823 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86795&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86795 Author: ket
Subject: 18738
Posted: 03 May 2021 at 8:58pm

Have you reset the UEFI to defaults and tried again? Make sure you didn't accidentally damage/bend any of the contact pins on the slot, you can also try cleaning the gold finger contacts on the M.2 drive with a soft artists eraser.]]> Mon, 03 May 2021 20:58:12 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86795&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86795 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86778&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86778 Author: DaveKR
Subject: 18738
Posted: 01 May 2021 at 10:58pm

MB: X370 Gaming X

Issue: M2 Ultra slot stopped working after removing Nvme for cleaning. After inserting it back in, the MB wouldn't detect it, and I had to move it to the lower M2 slot.]]> Sat, 01 May 2021 22:58:16 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=18738&PID=86778&title=m2-slot-stopped-working#86778