SSD and Motherboard issue

[hzbetmen]

Hello everyone, before everything a list of my components;
- Asus GeForce RTX 4070 Ti TUF-RTX4070TI-O12G
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
- Asus 4070TI OC
- Kingston KC3000 2TB M2
- Corsair DDR5 Vengeance 2x16GB 6000
- Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L V2 RGB
- be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W PSU
Couple days ago I had an windows security update (I am still not sure if its related). I did the update before I turn off my PC. The next day I turn on my PC and the moment I saw my desktop it just crashed and gave an error (I do not remember what was it saying), then it restarted it and went to BIOS. I tried to exit but it reopened BIOS over and over again. Then I realized My SSD wasn't recognized by my motherboard.
I tried other ports, updating BIOS, clearing CMOS, using my laptop SSD (tried with all ports), putting the SSD in my laptop, booting up with USB and see if windows sees the SSD, checking diskpart, checking all settings on BIOS but nothing has worked so far.
At this point I am clueless what to do.
It seems like the issue is with my motherboard and at the same time with my SSD.
I have contacted Kingston and I will get a replacement for my SSD, but I have doubt that it will work since my motherboard also didnt see my laptops SSD).
Should I just wait until the new SSD comes and see if that works or should I sent my motherboard to repair to save time?
I need my PC ASAP since I do all my school work there + I want to keep playing games.
Luckily I didnt have really important stuff in my SSD.

 

[Roij]

Seeing that you mentioned trying other SSD's in different locations on the motherboard, It seems that somehow after updating the NVME slots started malfunctioning. Is your desktop drive working when slotted into your laptop? Testing this would determine if the SSD became damaged as well.

Otherwise, I would just advise to RMA the motherboard

 

[hzbetmen]

Seeing that you mentioned trying other SSD's in different locations on the motherboard, It seems that somehow after updating the NVME slots started malfunctioning. Is your desktop drive working when slotted into your laptop? Testing this would determine if the SSD became damaged as well.

Otherwise, I would just advise to RMA the motherboard

Yes, I tried that as well but that also didnt work. Seems like somehow my SSD and motherboard got damaged.

 

[Roij]

That's really unfortunate to hear, I hope there was no important information stored on there.

It seems like the drive was corrupted after updating Windows.

As for the next steps. Under any non-avoidable circumstances, do not try to access the NVME as doing so might worsen the problem.