IDE drives not recognized by K8N Neo 2 Bios: Revisited

I am truely reaching my wits end with this problem and I'm beginning to believe that I'm not alone in dealing with this issue. Let me recap.  After building my new system around the K8N Neo 2 m.b. and a AMD Athlon 64 3200 939, (Winchester) cpu I booted for the first time only to find that none of my hdds were recognized.  Optical drives yes but not my two Maxtor IDE drives. Initially no variation in configuration would get the board to recognize my hdds but then suddenly, for no apparent reason my hdds were recognized but try as I may I cannot install another hdd as a slave on IDE channel 1.  If I attempt this the master drive no longer is recognized.  An optical as slave yes but not a hdd.  Keep in mind I am no novice although this is the first MSI board I have purchased.  I have checked the cables, (all good), made certain that the jumpers were set correctly and have tested the drives in my other system and they are good to go.  I even flashed my bios in the hope that ultimately it would make a difference. Since I had a working system and nothing seemed to be helping I decided to let it rest for a week. However, this weekend while installing a program that required reboot I discovered that the system was slow and it turns out that one of my drives had disappeared to XP.  Rebooting, I discovered that the drive was not detected by the bios during the reboot,  that is until I turned off the system altogether and did a cold boot. It worked. 
I would just write it off as a defective m.b. if it wasn't for the fact that it has continued to recognize optical drives in all configurations.  Can anyone offer any insight into this problem? This really makes no sense to me and I'm the type of person who wants to understand.

Quote from: Supershanks on 14-June-05, 05:49:23
How are your hard  drives if you have no opticals connected.
HD are definately in IDE1 ??
Makes no difference; with the opticals taken out no drives were detected.  Install the opticals on either channel without hdd's and they were detected.  Like I wrote, finally the board was able to detect hdds but put another hdd on the same channel and poof, neither were detected.  Neither channel appears able to accept more than 1 hdd period.  Right now I have 1 hdd, (boot drive) on channel 1 and a secondary hdd and an optical on channel 2.  It works but what disturbed me was the fact that during a reboot  this weekend my hdd on   the 2nd channel was not recognized and continued to be not recognized until I did a cold boot.  This situation makes my head ache    Bad IDE controller? Bad BIOS? Weird IDE cable problem? Bad PS?

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