MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI M.2_1 Slot not detecting WD SN850 and SN850x with certain BIOS versions.

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I was referring to your comment, where you wrote "if you save and exit after making changes and you have WD SN850X, it will keep going to Bios until you shutdown PC and power back on".
Where are you getting this from?
 
I waited over a year for a solution and gave up (the problem is even older). A few weeks ago I bought a Kingston SSD, mirrored it put it into the M.2_1 slot and it works. MSI will never fix it. I gave one star on Amazon for the Motherboard and I will never buy an MSI MB again.
 
I was wondering what if someone with knowhow who can compare Bios 7E12v13 which doesn't have detection issues with WD SN850X, compare with the latest stable Bios 7E12v1G using Hex Editor Neo app or something like that to find out which code changed between the Bioses that is causing detection issues with WD SN850X so someone with knowhow can edit the Bios file to fix it possibly, and also compare with Bios 7E12v14 where the detection issue probably began.
 
I was wondering what if someone with knowhow who can compare Bios 7E12v13 which doesn't have detection issues with WD SN850X, compare with the latest stable Bios 7E12v1G using Hex Editor Neo app or something like that to find out which code changed between the Bioses that is causing detection issues with WD SN850X so someone with knowhow can edit the Bios file to fix it possibly, and also compare with Bios 7E12v14 where the detection issue probably began.
Good idea, let me try that but first, what should i be looking for specifically
 
Switched WD SN850X from M.2_1 Slot to M.2_2 Slot. Haven't yet had detection issues for few days now. Little slower than M.2_1 Slot but no choice until MSI fixes the detection issues with WD Black in their Bios with M.2_1 Slot. Had to remove the Graphics Card in order to insert WD SN850X in the M.2_2 Slot. I wish all M.2 Slots were standardized to be on the back side of all Motherboards from the beginning and the PC Cases supported it from the beginning.

Does Crucial T500 or T700 have detection issues on M.2_1 Slot? Have someone tried it on MSI X670E Tomahawk?
 
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Reporting, tested with 7E12v1G, both cold and warm boots don't detect the SN850X 4TB (tried more than 4 times for each cold and warm boot), went back to the BIOS version that it does work.
 
Reporting, tested with 7E12v1G, both cold and warm boots don't detect the SN850X 4TB (tried more than 4 times for each cold and warm boot), went back to the BIOS version that it does work.
Appreciate the update. I've been keeping an eye on this after doing a search before updating my BIOS. I'm on an older version without this issue so I'm holding off until I see this get sorted.

Thanks!
 
7E12v1H2 Beta Bios is released.

 
7E12v1H2 Beta Bios is released.

is it working?

I bough Crucial T700 1TB and cloned my WD to it so my primary is Cruical currently and i'm using WD as storage (for games, work related files...)
 
I will start off by saying I am not very computer savvy. I built my gaming pc in 2023 with a x670e tomahawk, 4090, 7800x3d, then a crucial t700 4tb and crucial P3 Plus 4tb. The t700 was in M2_1. Board BIOS were flashed upon build. Few months ago my T700 started to give me problems (i thought, again not very knowledgeable and just googling and using Grimoire fromChatGPT, maybe it was failing.) I used sea tools and the drive failed a few times on test but i ran a fix and supposedly it worked. However, i still got occasionally corrupted boot. The PC would run super sluggish if booted at all and have audio and visual glitches etc. So i was hoping to win a raffle or shuffle for a 5090, but without luck yet I got the itch to spend some money elsewhere and got a 9800X3D and two more sticks of 32gb ram and a WD Black SN850X 4tb thinking i better hurry and move my c: drive to it. In my mined I went with the WD even though it was Gen4 because I thought the Crucial was failing so F Crucial, right and there aren’t any cheap G5’s. I went through hell tying to install the RAM but it ended up even though the models were exactly the same on the GSkill sticks they must have had different firmware (one package just mentioned xmp while the other xmp 3.0 was a clue.) Grimoire and I spent hours training stick by stick and changing settings but got to the point that if it was going to work it would be too fragile. So went back to original old sticks at 64gb nd returning the new. It fully booted with the cloned WD Black in m2_1 no problems once back to old OC settings and a CMOS reset. So next we flashed to new bios version since I was going to switch to the 9800X3d. Flash worked but then it would never get past boot screen. I checked and now the WD Black was not present in M2_1. Switched it to M2_4 since i could get to that (2 and 3 behind the 4090) That is also where i moved the reformatted T700 (hopping it might have new life). Now with the WD Black in m2_4 it booted right up and showed the T700 in m2_1. So for now I am going to keep the WD black in 4 and run OS and other basic stuff there. Then install all games and mods on T700. I will make some save and mod backups back to WD black or the P3. Other hardware on this board is an old WD HDD 1TB, and a BR Disc drive. Hope this helps answer q’s about the t700 (heatsinked) and adds another name to the list.
 

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7E12v1H Stable Bios is released.

 
Maybe this info from my comment in reddit helps MSI in some way, because i include pictures of the specs of the drive(s) and the system itself via different tools (hwinfo, cpu-z, crystal disk mark, crystal disk mark) AGAIN, with full description of the issue and all the debugging i've made (no ambiguity exists, no room for doubt that this issue started when v182Beta with AGESA ComboPI 1.1.0.1 which made the specific drives such the one i own, to not be able to be detected from cold boots but from warm boots only in the M.2_1 slot, the other slots detect either drive on any BIOS version, all the way up to v19 with AGESA ComboPI 1.1.0.2b Patch A which only detect the drives from a cold boot and this detection issue for me is 100% consistent, it's not that it doesn't work or works sometimes, it's always 100% reproducible, and past v19 BIOS, either drives, in M2._1 slot cannot be detected at all, for more info, please check the following comment, all bios settings are exactly the same for all BIOS version tested to prevent making a false conclusion):


If MSI can't reproduce the issue they are EITHER doing something wrong with their setup somehow (wrong drive, wrong capacity, drive with a different controller) or they are just lying about the fact that they did test, i am leaning on assuming the first thing.

Regardless, they should remove the drive from their compatibility list about this motherboard specifically since so many people report having this issue compared to the people that don't.
And before you ask because the second picture attached, it say for the controller of my SN850X (and the non-X) Resizable Bar Support: Not supported, i tried disabling it in the BIOS including the Above 4G decoding both at the same time and separately, it made no difference to the issue.
 

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I've had this issue since I got this board. I've never gotten an drive to work in M2_1. No BIOS has worked including the latest 7E12v1H. I'm using WD SN850X drives. First and last MSI board I buy.
 
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I've never gotten an drive to work in M2_1. No BIOS has worked including the latest 7E12v1H. I'm using WD SN850X drives. First and last MSI board I buy.
7E12v14 and 7E12v152 do not have the M2_1 detection issue.
What MSI does to their customers is unacceptable.
 
(wrong drive, wrong capacity, drive with a different controller) or they are just lying about the fact that they did test, i am leaning on assuming the first thing.
Let's go for not a Retail CPU but an AMD-supplied reference CPU to allow for consistency of testing for all Mainboard Partners.
 
A few weeks ago I bought a Kingston SSD, mirrored it put it into the M.2_1 slot and it works. MSI will never fix it. I gave one star on Amazon for the Motherboard and I will never buy an MSI MB again.
So, swapping the SSD to a different brand and it worked. This points to the M.2 Manufacturer as you just proved the Motherboard works happily with a different M.2
RMA the M.2 as Faulty
 
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