Asus Z97-a not recognizing ssd whatsoever

Please help! I just bought a pny optima 120g ssd and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 ultimate 64 and have been running it for about a day or so. I've been installing drivers and setting everything up. I just finished installing everything, powered it off ( mind you I've turned it off probably 10 times since installing drivers ) and I no longer have an ssd. It doesn't show up in the bios, it doesn't boot to it, nothing. My computer is effectively dead atm as I type this from my phone. 

 

My Hdds show up but my ssd has just vanished. I have tried switching sata ports, powering off for 15 min, changing boot prpriorities, and nothing has worked. Sometimes my post screen last for about a full minute too then blackscreens. Any and all help is greatly appreciated, I am quickly losing my patience. 

did you checked the power cable to the SSD?

seems like a dead SDD to me.

Update* I've updated the bios and still nothing. The ssd is still not detected by my bios and I can't boot. 

i think the SSD is dead, if you checked the powercables.

I took it back to the store and exchanged it. The tech there put it in his test rig and said it was dead. So here we go... Installing EVERYTHING again lol. Fun times.