Replaced Video Card, Killed SATA

[superkdogg]

Well gang I need a hand with this one.

I have an A8R-MVP and a 3000+ Winnie 2x256 Megs of Corsair ram and 3x WD800JB Hard drives as well as two Hitachi Sata drives.

I had been using this machine solely as a server, and had a PCI Cirrus Logic video card in it. I found a good deal on a x700 pro video card, so I upgraded to be able to at least think about some light gaming.

When I first finished the swap, Windows would not boot. The machine hung on a black screen with no error messages right after post. After messing with several things, I finally tried disabling SATA. That worked. I don't know why, but now I can use the machine as long as I have the SATA drives disabled. That is fine for a short-term workaround, but can somebody tell me what's going on and how to get it fixed correctly?

All I did was swapped cards and now the machine absolutely will not boot (not even safe mode) if the SATA ports are active and this machine has to have those drives operational to continue to share the music and files on those drives over the rest of my network.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Zap]

First thing to try is to remove the new card and put the old one back in. Does the problem go away? If not, then something fried. If so, then clear BIOS using the jumper and see if that helps.

 

[superkdogg]

^^^^ Good advice. Suppose that I already did those things, then what? (I've already cleared CMOS, and I highly doubt that I killed the SATA controller since the drives are detected at post and show up correctly in bios-it's a Windows problem)

 

[superkdogg]

moved to general hardware.....


let it die