Asus ROG Strix G17 G713PV-WS94 Second M.2 Slot Not Registering anything

[ZoneIsBetter]

I recently bought this laptop and doubled the RAM but also bought a second M.2 SSD for it. It doesn't register as existing on the system.

I took it back out and reset it back in, Nothing. 

I put it in an M.2 USB enclosure on my  desktop, it appeared immediately. 

I formatted it to NTSF and assigned it a letter. 

I put it back in the laptop. Nothing. 

I rechecked how it sat. Nothing

I put it back in the M.2 enclosure and plugged it into the Laptop, it showed as the drive letter I assigned through USB. 

I checekd Disk Management, Device Managemen, the Partition Drive software. I updated all drivers across the board. 

Is there a narrow list of M.2 drives that work with this machine?
Is there a setting I need to change?
Is the laptop defective?

This is the M.2 I got Samsun 990 EVO Plus SSD 1TB Model MZ-V9S1T0B/AM

 

[ElectroStingz · Accepted solution]

Hello,

With only the original drive connected can you disable Secure boot and get into windows then shutdown.

Install the new drive, power up and see what happens, if nothing, 

Does it show up in the BIOS?

If not, try only the original drive in the 2nd nvme slot to see if this works, this will tell you if the 2nd nvme slot is working or not.

[ZoneIsBetter]

Not sure which of these did it, but moving the drive to Slot 2 and the new one ot Slot 1 seemed to work, but it feels like it shouldn't have as both slots obviously worked and both M.2 drives worked. Either way I have an extra drive now. Thanks! 

[ElectroStingz]

Sounds like a good result :).