Upgrade Video Card, but kill SATA (Help)

[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.

 

[superkdogg]

bump. still stuck with this one

 

[Fardringle]

I suspect that the power supply in the computer cannot handle the X700 video card and the other peripherals that you have installed in the system. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the system would boot with the SATA drives enabled and the IDE drives disconnected since that would have the same effect of reducing strain on the power supply that disabling/disconnecting the SATA drives does. Try doing that as a test and if it works, then you'll know that you just need to upgrade the power supply.