M.2, Pci-E lane help?

[Heesleemer]

Motherboard: Asus z97 m - Plus

my current Pcie + storage uses

GPU

2 SSDs raid 0 (sata 1,2)

1 HDD (sata 3)

1 m.2 in the m.2 slot (I believe it is PCI-e 4 lane on this motherboard, someone can correct me if I am wrong)

 

I'm trying to figure out why my PCI-e to M.2 isn't seen in explorer, disk management, or bios. 

I am using a Silverstone M.2 to PC-e adapter 

I also tried the adapter through it's sata mode PCIe power and then hook up satat data to the motherboard) that seemed to work, but Id rather not use cables.

 

Both the M.2 drives are Adata 

 

I am trying to hackintosh one of the m.2s  (which will probably be on hold until I undo my raid 0 into one boot drive to AHCI in order to install os x)

 

Any thoughts on why it is not recognized? 

[NumLock21]

Not enough pcie lanes

[Heesleemer]

Not enough pcie lanes

That is what I figured,

I'm assuming it is a limitation of the board and not the 4790k? 

[NumLock21]

That is what I figured,

I'm assuming it is a limitation of the board and not the 4790k? 

Board cannot split lanes from the cpu. The 2nd x16 slot uses lanes from the chipset, and chipset only has 8 lanes. m.2 onboard uses 2 of those 8 lanes and rest of devices will use some too. Take out gpu, plug Silverstone m.2 to pcie adapter into that, and it might work.

[ThomasD]

What specific SSd are you placing in the M.2 socket?