Hello, my Optiplex 7040 just arrived this week. I bought a Kingston 120mb SATA ssd in a 2280 stick, so I'm trying to see if I can use this for my main boot drive (Windows 10) and then move the 500gb 3.5 Sata drive over to a storage drive.
When I install the 120gb 2280 stick into the M.2 slot, and load the bios...
*It shows up under General / System Information / PCI information / Slot5_M.2 & also under Device Information / SATA-4
*When I look under System Configuration / Drives, it also shows up under SATA-4 here as well. However, it's showing up as a 0gb Drive under 'type'!
So when I boot from a USB drive to try and reinstall Windows on this M.2 stick, it's not showing up at all.
When I connect the M2 SATA drive and load Windows on the existing 3.5 SATA drive that came with the 7040, the M2 2280 stick shows up in 'device manager' under the hard drives. The serial # there corresponds to a Toshiba-form hdd; unfortunately, I can't do anything with it in Windows 10.
SATA operation is set to AHCI, and I am booting into legacy with the USB.
Any thoughts? I'm wondering if maybe I have a dead memory stick. There's no real way I can test it on another computer to see what happens.