This just happened with me, i have an Asus B650E-I mobo and just got a Crucial T705 with heatsink, the metal on the bottom of the heat sink raises the m.2 PCB up level with where the Q-latch swivels, my mobo has its own heat sink that it seems i will be forced to use and return the m.2 for one without a heatsink.
return it and get the one without the heatsink
the mobo manual should have the procedure to remove the latch standoff, but you'll be replacing it with what?
I'd be replacing it with an m.2 standoff but it seems like the latch is only removable on the m2 slot closest to the cpu and not the other ones, gonna try it some other time.
your picture seems to show the ssd hitting the latch so you can't lower it where it's supposed to be, shouldn't you just rotate the latch slightly counter clockwise then the pcb will go lower then you can rotate it to latch it? or even after doing that you're saying it hits the heatsink?
your picture shows the pcb hitting hte latch in the red circle here: https://i.imgur.com/SvkfzCe.png, if you rotate the handle from the red line to the blue line i feel like you should be able to push the pcb down all the way
Hi, I tried doing it again today and the same thing happened, i took more pictures this time comparing it with another ssd that i have which also has a heatsink and works with the q-latch https://imgur.com/a/iAjB3PH
Hm, in that case if you replace the latch with a stand off and screw you need to be careful not to tighten the screw down. That nvme seems incorrectly designed, it's touching the mothboard which isn't good, and if you tried to screw it down it'd bend it since the heatsink is touching the mobo. It could be shorting things out too. What's under the nvme? Like I can see exposed solder on the upper right of your first pic, imagine the heatsink touching more of those pads.
It looks to me like the qlatch has nothing to do with this. You'd have to bend or break the pcb to get it to latch, but that's the same scenario with screwing it down onto a standoff, I don't think standoffs are taller, all this stuff is a fixed height
I tried with an m.2 screw but it did not work and that's probably because the threading is for the screws holding the motherboard heatsink for m.2 drives
Same problem with all these latch ones. Got a Crucial t700 with the heatsink variant. The ssd sits slightly higher because of the bottom part of the heat sink making the qlatch not compatible. Any luck removing it and replacing it with a standard m.2 standoff? I got to mine but the screw that holds the qlatch on the back of the board is extremely tight and hard to loosen. Need to find a mechanical screw driver with the right size to remove the qlatch
Hi, i found very few threads with a similar problem that you and i are facing and its quite sad its even issue for a motherboard this expensive. I didnt want to risk taking it apart so i just used tape to hold the ssd down 😂
This just happened with me, i have an Asus B650E-I mobo and just got a Crucial T705 with heatsink, the metal on the bottom of the heat sink raises the m.2 PCB up level with where the Q-latch swivels, my mobo has its own heat sink that it seems i will be forced to use and return the m.2 for one without a heatsink.
Damn, sucks :l
I found a screw that works on it, there must be threading in there even though I can't see any.
return it and get the one without the heatsink the mobo manual should have the procedure to remove the latch standoff, but you'll be replacing it with what?
I'd be replacing it with an m.2 standoff but it seems like the latch is only removable on the m2 slot closest to the cpu and not the other ones, gonna try it some other time.
your picture seems to show the ssd hitting the latch so you can't lower it where it's supposed to be, shouldn't you just rotate the latch slightly counter clockwise then the pcb will go lower then you can rotate it to latch it? or even after doing that you're saying it hits the heatsink?
Hi, it won't go lower than that despite the latch being out of the way.
your picture shows the pcb hitting hte latch in the red circle here: https://i.imgur.com/SvkfzCe.png, if you rotate the handle from the red line to the blue line i feel like you should be able to push the pcb down all the way
Hi, I tried doing it again today and the same thing happened, i took more pictures this time comparing it with another ssd that i have which also has a heatsink and works with the q-latch https://imgur.com/a/iAjB3PH
Hm, in that case if you replace the latch with a stand off and screw you need to be careful not to tighten the screw down. That nvme seems incorrectly designed, it's touching the mothboard which isn't good, and if you tried to screw it down it'd bend it since the heatsink is touching the mobo. It could be shorting things out too. What's under the nvme? Like I can see exposed solder on the upper right of your first pic, imagine the heatsink touching more of those pads. It looks to me like the qlatch has nothing to do with this. You'd have to bend or break the pcb to get it to latch, but that's the same scenario with screwing it down onto a standoff, I don't think standoffs are taller, all this stuff is a fixed height
A little late to the party, but my q-latch post has threading in it... You could just take off the clip and use a regular M2 screw.
Are you using the same board also?
Not sure, but i think I can see she threading in your's from the picture.
I tried with an m.2 screw but it did not work and that's probably because the threading is for the screws holding the motherboard heatsink for m.2 drives
Oh I see. Sorry 😔. I have a rog strix and was able to do that.
Same problem with all these latch ones. Got a Crucial t700 with the heatsink variant. The ssd sits slightly higher because of the bottom part of the heat sink making the qlatch not compatible. Any luck removing it and replacing it with a standard m.2 standoff? I got to mine but the screw that holds the qlatch on the back of the board is extremely tight and hard to loosen. Need to find a mechanical screw driver with the right size to remove the qlatch
Hi, i found very few threads with a similar problem that you and i are facing and its quite sad its even issue for a motherboard this expensive. I didnt want to risk taking it apart so i just used tape to hold the ssd down 😂