NVME suddenly vanished

Rustic

Limp Gawd
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got home from work and my pc is not seeing the nvme card. windows is on it so it is asking for a boot drive, not shown in bios. i was going to try and update the bios but i think it wont help.

not sure if i should bring it to a shop or call it dead?

it is giving me a single beep so that means it is not the motherboard, correct?
 
If something doesn't show up in the bios it's usually related to hardware in some manner (mobo, loose cable/device, said hardware). In this case it sounds like the drive has been working until recently. I would reseat the drive and reset the cmos. Otherwise I would take it to a friend and see if he's able to see the drive.

It's one thing if it's a first setup, but this sounds like it was a working rig. Unless something changed I'd suspect the top three.
 
NVME drives can run very hot.
If it had no extra cooling that might be why its not functioning.
As suggested try reseating it and check in another PC.

Check how hot it gets without doing anything, if its hot already you have your answer what happened.
 
wow, i had no idea. it does sit right underneath my GTX1080, so i doubt it gets much air flow.
 
drive is dead. i had 2 questions.

1. my other PC has a M.2 card in the motherboard. Should i be worried about that one? It has a GTX 1060 6GB on top of it but when i swapped them out the M.2 wasnt warm at all.

2. Could a computer shop possibly retrieve info off this type of drive?
 
Take precautions.
When the drive is under heavy use some of them get very hot which can cause damage unless cooled.
This type of damage causes more current to flow even when idle and rapidly gets worse.
How hot it will get depends on location (yours is the worst), the specific drive and how damaged it is.
You can fit heatsinks and/or blow a fan at the drive.
What you need to do depends how hot it gets. Test with a finger on the chips while it is under heavy use.
Too hot to put your finger on needs better cooling.

You will pay a lot to have your data recovered.
A computer shop will likely cause more damage with no result, you need a data recovery specialist.
Careful of scammers, they will give the same result as a computer shop or just flat out lie.
 
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