BIOS v38 on SER7 AMD with ?NVME ssd failures

[Windows 11]

BIOS v38 on SER7 AMD was recognizing a clean win11x64 pro install, now no longer recognizes the nvme. Same exact pattern has occurred x2 on identical NVMEs. BIOS, win11 install partition selector, and diskpart all do not recognize the NVMEs anymore (4TB nvme 2280 ssd). Swapping NVME locations from the internal nvme connector to the external connector does nothing. The BIOS setting are unchanged. No new firmware was installed between both NVME SSD failures. Is this definitely an NVME ssd failure, twice?

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