Officially lost on what my issue is here with my PSU, GPU, and SSD.

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Alright so I'll attempt to explain what's going on to the best of my ability (English is not my first language I'm sorry). First off my main system:

Motherboard: Asus Maximum Hero VI
Processor: i7 4770k
GPU: GTX 1060 (was 780ti)
PSU: Corsair RM 1000w
SSD: Intel 535 240GB

Recently my old 780ti finally gave out and while waiting on a 1080ti I decided to order a MSI GTX 1060 back up card for now and it all worked at first; however when I updated the GPU driver my Intel ssd no longer detects in my bios! After some odd hours of testing and trying RAID, AHCI, etc. I decided to create a makeshift computer out of old parts. I started it up and.. the Intel ssd detects in that pc! So it's not dead! Removed the GPU and the SSD now detects on the main computer so it's not the SATA cords. So I tried a backup smaller SSD on my main PC... it detects with the 1060 in. Retried my main SSD with my main motherboard + the 1060 in.. and still no dice it's not detected.

At my wits end I used another old cheap PSU to directly power the SSD only and plug the SSD into my main motherboard with the new 1060 GPU. And.. it works. So to take a break I got some headache meds and RMA'd the card and bought another ASUS 1060. It arrived and now the exact same issue. I genuinely don't know anymore and praying I've missed something here. I just got done plugging in an old GTX 650 and the motherboard can detect the SSD with it in just fine. >.<

I've updated my BIOS with EZ Flash. The Intel SSD works absolutely fine in another PC. There's no way the 1060 or SSD is failing to get adequate power with a 1000w PSU and how little of power the 1060 takes when I ran a 780ti for so long. Any help is GREATLY appreciated and I'm so sorry if this is in the wrong section. Thank you for any answers and forgive my English please. I'm close to the point I'm calling this paranormal.
 
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Well figured it out. I was using the displayport plug in on the 1060 GPU but not the 780ti. I instead used the 1060's DVI and now it works. The SSD detects in the BIOS perfectly. I'm going to consider this some voodoo black magic until someone gives me a technical reason for why displayport was doing this. Thanks for the tips in here you all. This one almost got me.. almost.
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1| You forgot to include the OS as well as the ram and chassis you're working with, please include them.
2| You should list out the system's specs of the makeshift computer as well so we can get a better picture. Inf act you should include all the hardware you sued to verify that there is nothing wrong with your RM1000 unit.
3| If you're on Windows 10, how did you get onto it, that is, did you perform an upgrade path installation or a clean install with license key?
4| Might I also ask how old the RM1000W unit is?
5| Almost forgot, you should've breadboarded the system to see if there was a grounding issue. It can happen, often times builders can have a stray wire or small debris make contact with the case panels to cause a grounding issue.
 
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My mistake gotten a headache over this and rushed the specs.

Extra bits of my main PC:
My OS is Windows 7 x64 updated to the latest build.
Ram is Corsair 8GB 1600 x2
The RM unit is close to 3 years old by now.
The Chassis (computer tower?) is one I made myself. Temps are absolutely fine and everything has a custom water loop.

The makeshit PC has the following that I know of:
Tomahawk C.A75K M2 V40 motherboard
A10-7850K with no GPU
8GB 1600 Kingston RAM 1 stick
It's also using Windows 7
500W Power Supply that has no visible brand. It was from a junk pile.

Basically everything except the new 1060 and the Intel SSD are about 3 years old. The Intel SSD is about 6 months old. I'm not on Windows 10 but Windows 7 boots just fine/the ssd is detected in the bios on the makeshift PC; however my main PC will not detect the Intel SSD *while the 1060 is plugged in*. Without the 1060 in the PCI-E slot the bios detects the Intel SSD absolutely fine. Or I remove the Intel SSD and put it another SSD and the bios detects it with the 1060 in the motherboard perfectly. I've breadboarded the system as mentioned in the post and still doing the same thing. :/

Another thing to mention in my main PC I have multiple SATA harddrives and an internal Blue-Ray working just fine but the issue is just with that 1 SSD not wanting to detect while a 1060 is in there. I've tried swapping cables and unplugging all of the drives and such.

Small edit: Put Windows 7 on a harddrive. 1060 in and booted just fine. No idea why this gpu refuses to work with the Intel SSD. Any information is again welcomed I'd love to keep it.

Edit #2: I made sure I had a functional OS on one of my harddrives and shut down the main PC. Plugged in my Intel SSD and attempted to boot from the OS that was on the harddrive. It would not boot and the SSD is still not detected by the bios. So I shut down my PC again, unplugged the SSD, and now the aforementioned harddrive with a functional OS will boot just fine. I then hooked up the SSD to a reader while on the harddrive's windows 7 and it works I can access my SSD.
 
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Tried booting with 1060 and SSD, and ALL OTHER hard drives unplugged?
 
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Yes I did that already. Also in case you missed the edit in my previous post I'll post it here too.

Edit #2: I made sure I had a functional OS on one of my harddrives and shut down the main PC. Plugged in my Intel SSD and attempted to boot from the OS that was on the harddrive. It would not boot and the SSD is still not detected by the bios. So I shut down my PC again, unplugged the SSD, and now the aforementioned harddrive with a functional OS will boot just fine. I then hooked up the SSD to a reader while on the harddrive's windows 7 and it works I can access my SSD.
 
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+1 to that.
But, that mobo actually has two kind of SATA ports, 6 from Z87 chipset and 2 from ASM1061 chipset. My guess is those from ASM1061 would not be affected by this. However the stupid part is that all SATA ports are red ...
Anyway try plugging SSD to one of the ports coming from ASM1061 chip.
 
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I've tried every SATA port on the main board. I've tried plugging the SSD to one of the ports from the ASM chip. I've tried unplugging every drive and only having the SSD. Only having 1 empty HDD and the SSD. Only having a HDD with a functional OS + the SSD, etc. I've tried every plug in possible the SSD could work on and still not detected and won't let the other functioning HDD boot while it's in or the 1060 is in. :/

If I'm mistaking something apologies.

Edit: To make it more clear. If I power the SSD with an outside PSU and plug it into the main motherboard while my main PSU powers everything else? It can detect on my bios and boot just fine. This stuff is really puzzling me.
 
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That would suggest your PSU is not powering SSD as it should. Which sounds stupid seeing this 1000 W...
 
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Well figured it out. I was using the displayport plug in on the 1060 GPU but not the 780ti. I instead used the 1060's DVI and now it works. The SSD detects in the BIOS perfectly. I'm going to consider this some voodoo black magic until someone gives me a technical reason for why displayport was doing this. Thanks for the tips in here you all. This one almost got me.. almost.
 
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