pillainp wrote:Does your laptop boot without the SSD?Not when the SSD fried the motherboard. They have replaced the motherboard under warranty and I haven't tried installing the SSD ever since.

pillainp wrote:I installed my M.2 PCIe 960 Evo all my own lonesome.The only problem I faced was that the d****d stingy Asus people do not provide an M.2 screw with the laptop, at least in India (probably would have increased the cost exponentially;))...

pillainp wrote:I do have the PCIe M.2 960 Evo, and it has been working perfectly since I installed it nearly one year ago.In fact, I just bought an 860 Evo SATA 2TB SSD to keep it company after my Seagate FireCuda 2TB (upgraded by me from Stock Hitac...

pillainp wrote:How strange of them to say that!!I have had a Samsung 960 Evo running in PCIE3 x 4 mode in my FX553VD for the past year.Most definitely the laptop supports PCIE M.2 drives.Says so righ on the Specifications page:https://www.asus.com/La...

PJayZ wrote:What exactly do you mean? how is it possible??Any screenshot of your conversation?I was told about this in person by the service center. So I do not have any proof of that. I do have the call recorded with ASUS though but I have to go th...