PCI-E M.2 SSD unrecognised

[infinitgnome]

I have recently purchased my first M.2 SSD
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/351898852091?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and an adapter
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262407686214?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
after connecting it to my motherboard, and about 3 hours playing with bios settings and attempting to get the motherboard to recognise the SSD, i have been unsuccessful, the adapter recognises the SSD is attached (as eviodenced by an LED indicator) but i am unable to find it in the BIOS or in the Hard disk utility or in device manager in windows.
troublshooting so far:
i have currently got the card in a PCI-E 16x slot 3(as in third full length PCI-E slot from the top) but i tried and got the same result in the PCI-E 4x slot
i currently have a GTX-970 in the top PCI-E slot, and i did have a GTX 260 in slot 4 (as a PPU) i have since removed it to no avail. I have tried just about every hard drive setting in the BIOS that would still provide a boot, even removing one of the Hard drives that was using the SATA 3 port (not both due to my OS being on the other)

Im at a loss as to what I am doing wrong please help.

System specs:
win 10 64 bit, Rampage III extreme with intel I7-950 OC to 3.71Ghz, GTX 970 graphics card,D-link DWA-556 Extreme N pci-e network card, 10 GBytes of DDR3 Ram

 

[drtweak]

The issue is because the adapter you got was for a NVMe SSD NOT a SATA SSD which is what you got. You need a M.2 SATA SSD to SATA Adapter or buy a NVMe SSD

Have to becareful with M.2. M.2 Has 3 types of things that can be plugged into it. PCIe SSD's, SATA SSD's, and Other I/O like Wifi Cards. JUST because is a M.2 or Has a M.2 port doesn't mean everything is compatible. Some M.2's Don't take NVMe (They aren't wired to PCIe Lanes) and only SATA, but USUALLY when it is on the motherboard it can take all of them.

If you use ANY kind of M.2 to PCIe adapter it MUST be a I/O device or NVMe it WILL not work with a SATA SSD.