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Samsung 950 Pro M2 NVMe not found
I have a samsung 950 pro I am trying to install into my brand new Inspiron 15 7000 (7559) laptop. There was a 128gb M2 in the slot, but it is too small for my programs. I thought the greater speed of the 950 would be nice along with more storage.
The computer does not recognize the drive at all and I have searched and read until my eyes bleed and can't find any reason it should not (or should) work on this machine.
This is the Skylake version, the specs from Speccy say the PCIe lanes is x16. Here is a screenshot of my mobo.
Has anyone had success with this in the Inspiron? I have updated the Bios to 1.0.3. What am I missing? No matter what I read and try this drive is not showing in bios, computer management, nowhere. Is the drive defective??
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September 4th, 2017 14:00
Has anyone had any luck installing a PCIe SSD M.2 into the i7559? I've done hours of research, updated my Bios, ensured all firmware was updated, and even tried to install Samsung's firmware for the 960 PRO. Unfortunately, the laptop doesnt even detect the M.2 drive so the install wizard will not install it.
I also did some digging into the device manager, and there are PCIe ports and other PCIe drivers installed on the computer. The key is installing a NVMe or PCIe Storage Device Controller which I have not been able to do:
ejn63
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September 4th, 2017 15:00
This model supports only SATA M.2 drives - not NVMe. You must return the drive and order the SATA version of the SSD.