Question NVMe SSD blanked itself out!

[Dave3000]

Today I turned on my secondary PC, a PowerSpec B686, and it would only boot into the BIOS, even after reflashing the BIOS. I inserted my Linux Mint installer flash drive and boot into the Linux Mint installer and GParted showed that my NVMe is now blank, as in the partitions are gone. I had Linux Mint installed in this PC and didn't repartition or reformat this NVMe SSD that is installed in this system since the last time I used it before today, so I don't know why it blanked out on me. It's a 500GB PowerSpec NVMe SSD which came with the system that I only used for the OS on this system and kept everything else stored on a 2TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD that is still working fine. Three months ago I unlocked the power limits of the CPU which is an i5-12400 by setting the short term and long term power limits to 4095W. Could that have been the cause, as this system came with a low-end basic motherboard but the most I seen my i5-12400 use is 95w during heavy stress testing in OCCT and I don't stress test the CPU often, but maybe the motherboard can't cope past stock power or not much more than past stock power limits for this CPU and ended up corrupted the partition table on the NVMe SSD?

 

[Shmee]

If the system is otherwise passing POST and can go into BIOS, I would suspect it is more likely the cheap SSD they used has an issue.

 

[Dave3000]

I just got finished installing Windows 10 onto the system and ran CrystalDiskInfo and the drive checks out fine according to CrystalDiskInfo. I'll keep using it but just for the OS installation and keep an eye on it. I have 3 spare NVMe SSDs (one 250GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus and two 2TB Samsung 980 Pros) that I'm not currently using, so if it happens again, I will replace it with the 250GB 970 EVO Plus as I already have a 2TB SSD for data storage in that system and don't need a 2TB for just the OS.