Hi there,
I have a Gigabye Z270 Gaming 7 motherboard, it provides 3 PCIe slots. Per Gigabyte manual, the SSD should be installed on the third PCIe *4 slot.
Gigabyte Z270 Gaming 7 expansion slots specs:
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot. - 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8)
* The PCIEX8 slot shares bandwidth with the PCIEX16 slot. When the PCIEX8 slot is populated, the PCIEX16 slot operates at up to x8 mode. - 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
* The PCIEX4 slot shares bandwidth with the M2P_32G connector. The PCIEX4 slot operates at up to x2 mode when an SSD is installed in the M2P_32G connector.
Now I installed a Asus Graphic card on the first slot - PCIE *16. If I installed Intel 750 SSD 400G on the second slot - PCIE*8, it works normally, PC starts from SSD.
But if I installed SSD on the third slot PCIE *4, system can't detect Intel SSD, OS can't be loaded. From BIOS, also can't see Intel 750 has been detected.
Now I can only install the SSD on the second slot, but per the manual from Gigabyte, this will impact my PC performance, because slot 1 and 2 share the bandwidth, which forces the slot one working under PCIE*8 mode.
And the second question is:
I just installed the latest SSD tool 3.4.3. Please see screenshot below, it shows that there are updates for firmware, but the "update" button is in grey. I clicked the button "Check for updates", it just reverted to the SSD tool download page, but my SSD tool has already been up-to-date. So, what is the point of this "Update" button? Should I download the firmware directly and burn it to CD/USB and then upgrade the SSD firmware?
Any advice about above? Thanks!