I used a pci to sata expansion card but cannot see the drives in windows

Lioric Lionheart

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This is the type of card I got

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Combo-PCI-Express-2-SATA-1-IDE-Ports-PCI-e-Controller-Card-Marvell-Chipset-/192294326310

I connected my optical drive to it
And when I on the pc I get a new bios window saying that my card has the optical drive attached to it

But when windows loads the device manager shows this card and no yellow triangles
But I cannot see the optical drive in windows

I have asus z97k motherboard
16gb gskill ram
M.2 card ssd ( which disable 2 of my sata ports. Which is why I'm using this expansion card)
4 sata hdd
Gtx 750 graphics card

So what do you think is happening?
 

rgd1101

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the optical drive should show up in device manager too. under view tab, check the "show hidden device"

 

Lioric Lionheart

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When I check under hidden devices tones of transparent devices are there but not connected