#Dual Drive Boot Troubles

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spring patrol
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I have a gaming pc: cyberpowerpc bought around 2020.
I recently bought a Crucial 1 TB PCI3 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD

I wanted to put Mint on the NVMe while keeping my Windows on the vanilla C and D drives that came with the tower.

Installing the NVMe causes the computer to not boot at all; remains at the boot screen with the cyberpower logo indefinitely. This is true with both the windows C&D drives connected and disconnected. I'm unable to access the BIOS with any key during bootup, making it impossible to select the flashdrive I have Linux on. I'm at a loss on how to put linux solely on the new NVMe, or even to make use of the new hardware at all.

My assumption is that it's prioritizing the SSD for bootup which is empty and therefore causing the problems, but I'm unsure how to go about reprioritizing the bootup and then being able to put linux on the NVMe without windows ever interfereing with it later.

End Goal: I am wanting Linux Mint on the new SSD and Windows on the C and D drives that came with the system, never the twain shall meet. Am unsure how to achieve this.

dusky violet
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I think first you should disconnect the nvme drive, and troubleshoot the BIOS.

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either the drive is bad, or a certain BIOS PCI setting is not quite right

spring patrol
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That would be with booting through the C and D drives I'm assuming. Any idea baout what settings to look at within the bios?

dusky violet
sly breach
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Always check if the drive is compatible with your bus

spring patrol
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The manual for my motherboard says: " 1x M.2 slot (Key M)
• M2_1 slot (From CPU)
• Supports PCIe 3.0 x4
• Supports SATA 6Gb/s
• Supports 2260/ 2280/ 22110 storage devices"

dusky violet
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@spring patrol any luck or discoveries on this issue?