I recently made the rookie mistake of adding a second M.2 NVMe drive to my PC, and now it won't post at all—no BIOS screen or anything! I've tried a bunch of troubleshooting steps like reseating the RAM, switching RAM slots, using different sticks, and checking the GPU by reseating it and even trying another one. I also removed the second NVMe and all the NVMe drives, and I took out the CPU to clean and repaste it. I cleared the CMOS several times. My motherboard is a Gigabyte B650M GAMING X AX. Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong?
3 Answers
How long do you wait after powering it on? Sometimes the system needs extra time to train the memory, which might hold things up before it posts. Are there any debug LEDs lighting up on the motherboard?
If you remove the new NVMe drives and it still doesn't work, there could be something more serious going on. It's possible the installation affected the motherboard, CPU, or GPU. Have you checked for any physical damage?
I really hope it didn't damage anything. I was super careful, but I wouldn't expect an NVMe install to cause motherboard damage.
When you hit the power button, what exactly happens? Does it power on and do the fans spin, or is there anything else you notice?
It turns on, and the fans spin, but I get no Gigabyte logo or BIOS screen.
I wait about 2 minutes. There are no LEDs lighting up at all on the board.