I recently bought a intel 600p 256 gb ssd and put it into my M2. slot on my Asus z-97a motherboard. I'm not supertechsavvy but I realised i had to turn on M2.mode through Bios, which i did. I still can't see the drive in neither the bios nor disk management though, I do not plan to install windows on it, just use it as a storage drive. Does it matter which PCE slot i have my GPU installed in? i have it on the one furthest up, so the PCI 3.0 slot. https://inetimg.se/img/800x600/1902646_0.jpg
pic of the motherboard

Any help is appreciated, I did download the hotfix for windows 7 to find NVMe devices, problem is it didnt seem to work and in device manager it still just shows up as an unknown PCI-E device: https://gyazo.com/6dd8f683cd1ae8fe61812c9a7f6d3897

This post was edited by Salaki on Dec 2 2016 03:23pm

Might need to update bios
I had same problem
Had to disable the option
That said don't disable if using m.2
To see it
Freaking asus

Updated the bios to latest and no luck

Assuming you've installed the M.2 in the lie-flat slot above the top x16 PCIe slot, not the x1 slot, right? You may need to update the chipset/SATA drivers from Intel to support that.

Yes thats ive done, i updated the Intel chipset aswell, no luck

Looks like none of the Z97 boards are supported. May need to upgrade to a Z170 board.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/solid-state-drives/consumer-ssds/000022677.html

Damn, I've got no money to upgrade the mb atm -.- guess i just have to hold on to it,atleast i got it for cheap during black friday sale...

cheers though, it's weird cuz my board says it supports a m2 pcie NVMe ssd...

I would call ASUS. Your motherboard supports: 1xM.2 socket 3 (for M Key type: 2260/2280 storage devices.

As the Intel site says... contact your motherboard manufacturer.

ASUS motherboard tech support: 812-282-2787

/e There are BIOS settings other than M.2 mode, that have to be set properly. Worth a check with ASUS.

This post was edited by Ghot on Dec 5 2016 08:05pm

Windows* Installation Guide for Intel® Solid State Drive 6 Series for PCIe* with NVMe

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/solid-state-drives/000023002.html


In this .pdf, they use an ASUS Z97 motherboard.