Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: NVMe drive failure
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Sat Oct 03, 2026 09:52

@VIA: REALITY
My wife's desktop PC failed to boot; after a couple of times it came
back to life. I backed it up, then a couple of days later it failed
again.

Odd, the fans spin and change speed, like it's going through POST- but
no video.

What I learnedis that NVMe drives, since they're directly attached to
the PCI bus, can prevent boot when they fail - as opposed to a SATA
drive, which just doesn't appear. With SATA, the system will POST, then
fail to boot with a "boot device not found" message.

I would have thought it was the power supply or a bad motherboard at
first glance. Glad I took the drive out to reseat it and saw it boot to
setup without the drive in it.

I was going to replace it with a SATA drive, but I don't see a place to
mount it. She doesn't need NVMe speed and those tiny 2230 SSDs are
expensive.





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