K8N Neo Platinum - Hangs On "Detecting IDE Devices" at POST

My K8N Neo Platinum motherboard died about a month ago.  Not having the time or the patience to RMA it, I bought a new one.
I got the new system all setup.  The BIOS version on the Motherboard is 1.4
I have a 200gb SATA (NO RAID) HD setup as my boot device, and I also 120gb EIDE setup as a secondary HD.
With my Previous MB, everything worked fine.  I had the SATA drive on SATA1, and the IDE as the Master on the 1st IDE Chain.  I also have a DVD Drive and a DVD Burner on the 2nd IDE chain.  When I set the system up like this this time, the system just hangs at Detecting IDE Devices.  It will never boot into Windows.  If I unhook the SATA drive, it detects the IDE drive no problem and tries to boot to it, although it doesn't have windows, so it will not boot.  If I unhook the IDE drive, the SATA drive boots.  That is what I have been doing for the past two weeks, but I would like to access my 2nd Hard drive.
Any Ideas would be helpful.  
Thanks!

another thing is never have any other drives in your set up when loading xp to raid
or it writes the mbr to the ide drive not the sata
hence
it detects the IDE drive no problem and tries to boot to it
you have put the sata raid drive first in bios boot order ?

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