I hate computers

Got the PCIe card, put it in, did not work, so I took the NVMe drive from my Mac hub and put that on the card it did not work.
so i took the 250GB one out of the computer and put it on the card and it worked.
so I thought, OK I will try to update the bios again and it updated.
I tried a few times before and all I got was Error. so I am now on the latest and last bios, which is a beta.
anyway, i tried the new NVMe drive in the computer and it worked.
Tried my old NVMe drive in the PCIe card, and it did not work.
I thought, what the hell is going on here. Took the NVMe drive out of the computer board again and the card worked.

Then it clicked, that PCIe slot can't be used at the same time as the on NVMe connector , But is also the only slot left that is not in use or the card can fit.

Anyway, so the 2TB NVMe drive can now work on the board after the bios update, the update I tried many times and it would not work.


I will keep the PCIe NVMe card, may come in useful for something. At least I got a nice heat sink with it

So now I am backing up files on all the drives as I notice for some reason, the boot block or what ever it is called these days is not on my main drive. So I am going to redo the whole machine

thanks peoples for your help

oh yes, the new UEFI/bios looks posh, really different, but as I said it was the last one they did and a beta.

Edited by zyborg47 (Wed 23-Oct-24 20:05:28)

welcome to the land of ryzen and pcie lane sharing .......

imagine two graphics cards and dual sfp+ nic in a x570........... 😂

p.s i'm soo glad it was the bios in the end ..... Also i've never out of 6 nvme installs, installed the card correctly first time.

It is also the first gen Ryzen, lasted well.
I just hope the bios don't muck up, I wonder why it did not come out of beta.


Don't intel have the lane sharing problem? Not that I will buy intel.

I never really bothered with dual graphic cards, apart from one many years ago, when my sister-in-law had a machine that had built in video, and it was possible to link it with another one. Just for the fun of it.
Not really made much difference to what she was using it for.

I just got to put the machine back together now, i reinstalled Windows 10 on it.,

In one way I would like to update it, but I got the Mac, so I did not have to bother with the PC only for games. There can't be that much of an issue with my eyes, if there was, then I surly would have been called by now.
but I would still like to know what is going on before I spend money on new parts. Saying that I could go for a AMD Ryzen 5 4500, and a b550 board, that would be a lot cheaper. It is just that the machine is only used for a few games and I don't really buy new ones, or have not for a while.

Life, don't talk to me about life

The bios compatibly thing is down the the BIOS chip storage capacity.

Its quite small, 32mb or something IIRC and with AMD's CPU updates they cant support all AM4 CPU's in one BIOS so you have to pick and chose. Stay with an older BIOS for your CPU or upgrade it if your CPU is still supported. I believe they removed support for chips like the Athlon APU thingy's but left Ryzen 3/5/7/9 in but dont quote me on that.