I7 X220 won't detect MyDigitalSSD SandForce based msata

I have a mydigitalssd msata card that I just got and it's not detected in my laptop.  It's the smart series 256 gb with the sandforce controller.  the laptop is model 4286cto with the i7 CPU and usb 3.0.  I have worked with mydigitaldiscount and am continuing to work with them but in the mean time I want to see if anyone else has had a similar issue or has any ideas.  I have thus far had good interactions with them and their support.
I have upgraded and downgraded the firmware various time, from 1.31 to 1.19 and i'm on 1.28 right now.  I did this because i know the X220 with the i7 used to have issues with msata that was fixed in bios 1.18.   the msata card has 2 led's on it, they both momentarily light up on boot, then one of them stays solid on blue after that.  The bios does not seem to detect anything for this device.  If i go to the diagnostic splash screen it does not detect it, if I hit f12 for the boot manager I don't see the msata ssd.  If i go into windows device manager i don't see the ssd.  If i do an lspci in linux I don't see the ssd, if i do an fdisk -l i don't see it, nor do i see it in the dmesg.
MyDigitalDiscount was great and cross shipped a replacement to me right away, they got my old one back and tested it and said it worked fine, the new one exhibits the exact same problem and they tested it before shipment.
I'm at my wit's end here.  I'm down to thinking the ssd is incompatible with the laptop (bios/msata port), I have a bad msata slot, or I'm half retarded and missing something completely obvious.  
I took a wwan card and plugged it into the laptop from my worklaptop and it detected it and came up as being on the blacklist (which is fine at least it detected something).  I knwo this isn't definitive a working mpcie  doesn't necessarily mean a working msata, but i think it's a good sign.
 I've been doing IT for a long time and I like to think I'm pretty good at it, however I've never used an msata card before and admit I could be missing something, I just don't know what.
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UPDATE: Resolved!
It was a bad motherboard.  The msata ssd works perfectly now that I got the planar replaced.

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