Thank you! I put it in the usual way at first and of course it wasn't flat. This really should be in the manual!

2 years later and you just solved my problem! Thank you!!

I got the B560I motherboard and was scratching my head to figured out how to install. Your video helped me. Thank you. Subscribed!!

Thanks man. Been building PCs for 30 years and I've never not been able to figure out something like this!

Oof. Was just dealing with this. Thanks so much! SFF problems, amirite

Very helpful video, thank you kindly for posting! I had a heck of a time getting the m.2 heat sink (the part with the sticky pad attached) to come free from the post. I kept checking around the back of the board thinking I missed a screw somewhere. I ended up prying at it a bit with a pair of needle nosed pliers. The metal on the end of the heat sink is very easy to bend.

Thanks for sharing. I am planning to do this and learned a tip from someone else to install CPU cooler last. I can see it’s harder with the cooler installed prior to the M.2! Good job though

Super helpful, I thought something wasn't right with that post and didn't know until I saw your video. Thanks for your in depth tutorial.

Thank you! I was thinking that extra preattached stand off was getting in my way from getting the heatsink installed properly and you helped me confirm. Thanks!

Very helpful. Removed doubt about the proper way to mount M.2 on this motherboard. Manual assumes this knowledge is known or should be by prospective builder. Thanks for your work on putting this together.

Thanks so much! Didn't know about the 2nd piece to the post, nearly broke my M.2, saved me time and money. Much appreciated!

Glad I found this video, will be building a new PC using the Aorus B550i this week

Great video. I now have my M.2 drive installed on my new motherboard thanks to your video, great stuff.

Never seen a m.2 slot like this, really weird. Thank you for the clarity

Thanks, this was actually the problem I was facing today!

Thanks. This is one of the few videos that shows the issue of the screw-on-top-of-another-screw with this motherboard.

thank you for your sharing, I was confuse yesterday when I tried to install my m.2 SSD, but I knew the problem after watching your video.

Thanks! I didn't know there was the heat sink cover, and I didn't see the small screw to hold the card down. Very useful, thanks a lot!

Very helful thanks! B560M Aorous Pro-AX is exactly the same. Had me puzzled trying to figure out that M.2 mounting on the first slot. I really thought the screw was too short! All fixed now after following video 🙂

Great vid! Waiting for mine to arrive. BTW, putting that final block WILL worsen your m.2 temp by 5-10c, and you were right that leaving it out is actually better. Or, you could put some thermal pads between the two. A gent from reddit performed some tests.

Thank you so much reading this in the booklet was impossible, its my first PC build and i didn't even know where to start

Thanks for the video. Last time I installed an m2 drive (my first ever) I heard a loud snap which was the driving breaking because I didn’t remove the intermediate mounting screen

Was trying to work this out to. Thank you very much for the demonstration. Life saver !!!!!

Mate, you are a life saver! Thank you so much for posting this incredibly helpful video!

Thanks so much for your video, I was really scratching my head on this part because it’s nowhere stated what you need to do. That little thing on top of the post was screwed in so tight I would have never guessed you can and need to remove it.

Thanks bud! Was reluctant to use pliers at first but it had to be done....

Thanks a lot, I was struggling to remove the standoff and didn’t think to use pliers!

Thanks. this helped me today couldnt figure out why they designed it to not sit flush. didnt see the little peice on the standoff

Nice video, it showed me I wasn't the only person dealing with that little pisser of a nut. Needle nose pliers it'll have to be. Thanks mate 👍🏾

Just for info, as I've read and heard a lot of people comment about the grey heat sink above the black M.2 heat sink, even pro building channels! It's not for decoration it's a heat sink for the VRM via the heatpipe and the chipset which is located below the M.2 drive, that's why it does not make contact with the M.2 heatsink and straddles it. If you leave it off you will often see lower temps for your M.2 drive, as it's exposed rather than being in a tunnel like metal shroud. The trade off though is you'll have higher temps in your chipset and VRM. If you're not pushing your board and your ambient temperature isn't too high it shouldn't be an issue, but it's there for a reason and it does have a purpose. I would recommend people leave it on if it's not causing an issue with clearance for other components like a low set CPU cooler. If you have to remove it you should ideally monitor your temperatures and if they are high, consider supplementary cooling for that area, like a fan for directing air flow that way. If you run your board hot all the time, best case you may reduce it's working life, worst case it could fail. Very helpful video for installing the M.2 drive though, as a lot of new builders can be confused by that second retaining nut.

Thanks for the video. The 2nd screw can also be opened with a M4.5 wrench bit 🔧 if you have one.

Cheers for this video, I never would have got it right. The instructions that came with my board are actually totally wrong, they say "Locate the proper mounting hole for the M." SSD to be installed and then tighten the standoff first. Insert the M.2 SSD into the M.2 connector at an angle. Press the M.2 SSD down and secure it with a screw." If I'd followed these instructions I would have caused damage to my SSD by having the end 2mm too high and trying to tighten the heatsink and SSD down in one go. Really not good enough Gigabyte!

Thank you very much, things like this should be in the manual.

absolute legend. thank you!

Thanks man, very helpful!

Thank you. I wan't sure about this. You helped me a lot.

Thanks this really helped

Thank you soooo much sir!

Life saver, thank you!!

you saved my day, thank sir.

Remove the second heatsink. It's just for visual and results in higher temps for the SSD.

thanks dude for the helpu saved my time ♥

Thanks so much, I got really confused after watching build videos where the ssd would just fit in without unscrewing the top bit first. Most of these builds featured an SSD from Samsung, not WD. Not sure if it got something to do with it. Thanks again!

Thanks for sharing!

Very helpfull. Thank You so much. 🙏❤️

Thanks for the help 😊 was wondering why it wasn’t flat

I'm fairly confident that the m.2 doesn't need a spacer between the heat sink the like middle screw bit cause its off position

Good video. I will install it first, then Ram and later processor and fan.

Omg :((( thank you so much, that is my problem in 3 month

Thanks mate 👍🏽

Thank you for the great video! Just one follow-up though, any idea on how to install the *second* m2 that the specs and manual say this board supports? Watched your video twice and I can't figure out where the second drive would go!

nice, thx for sharing!!

My screw doesn’t come off on my heat sink. there’s a washer at the end of the screw ? do I try to take it off or leave it ?

Thank you fo r this video!! where is Gigabye with this explanation??! Only sugestion I would make would be to take the labels off your SSD as they will act as a thermal insulator between the ICs and the thermal pad.

Oh and one more thing that i found, it's better to cut a bit of the thermal pad so that it only sticks to the m.2 drive controller, not the NAND. The NAND on my drive is a bit taller than the controller, this makes my M.2 drive runs hot most of the time.

Question: Might an NVMe with a heat-sink stick out on the back-side or does it for sure?

thanks so much

Hi, I have this same board but I installed the SSD in the back m2 slot and I have the OS on that one. I get many bsod at the startup tho, do you think that putting the SSD in this slot would solve anything? thanks

I can't believe I'm googling for how to screw in an M.2 drive lol. It would be better if you unscrew the nut with 5.5mm hex socket. Anyway I found that the 'heatsink' doesn't really do anything to help with the drive temperature especially in right hand sandwich style case where the M.2 drive sits on top. I took it off and stick 2 40mm fans instead.

helpful video

Thank you save my pc

It could not have been done worse...you have to figure it all out with your own tools, how to remove that tiny screw and put it back later by balancing the tools and the screw.

My standoff snapped. I put the m.2 drive in, then the small standoff on top. I put the thermal pad on and as I was screwing the final one in the whole thing came apart. Seriously cheap from Gigabyte. Not sure what to do. Bought via Amazon, i've had to use the option to send it off for a repair. 🤷‍♂️

!!!!!! >>> no one does this anymore but """ >>>>>> screw the screw backwards to catch the thread so you don't damage the screw

Damn ill need to RMA my board, the screw sheered off so i cant mount my drive properly, does the standoff come out? i could swap it with another maybe

Cheers. No idea why they made it so fiddly to install an SSD

Does this support Gen 4 M.2?

I unfortunately snapped that hexnut off inside the standoff 😢

First thing I allways do after MB unboxing is: install my M.2......

My SSD got suck on this fk screw i cant get him out

thanks for this, its not a great design made worse by the fact it doesn't explain it in the manual

omg what a shit engineering design around that m.2 2nd post.... for 2 days I am trying to figure out why that m.2 drive is not recognized in BIOS...

Stupid design. A 4mm socket is too small, 5mm too big...

This is a better video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJ5ii7Vl1LXPk40.html Just use a 4.5mm hex bit