K9A2 CF IDE / PATA and SATA issue where IDE is master boot

Hi everyone,
I have built myself a pc using the K9A2-CF mboard and had trouble installing any OS on my SATA HDD.  Both windows and linux installers said the drive was locked and i couldn't install anything into the partition. (I have a lot of data on this drive that I want to keep.)  I couldn't even edit the partitions on the sata drive unless i deleted the master partition.
i bought a cheap 2nd hand PATA IDE disk, which i then installed winxp sp2 onto. (after some trouble as both drives were 'locked' meaning i had to delete and recreate the IDE partition) this eventually worked (IDE MASTER & Nbr1boot sequence). I even got my SATA drive working from windows.
This worked fine, but i switched off the PC and next day found it wouldn't work as the bios couldn't find the IDE drive anymore (takes a few mins to not find it too).
When I removed the SATA disk it worked ok. then when i reinstalled the sata disk it might work but then after a cold boot it doesn't.  Any ideas?
I'm pretty sure that if i reformatted the sata drive then it would work. I wish i spent an extra tenner on a second sata.  is there anyway the ide boot disk and sata storage disk can play together? i updated the bios to 1.5, played with ide jumpers. I even tried using a SATA to IDE connector that i used on my old PC but all it did was to display what looked like a graphics card code on it. (...GDDR4)
thanks in advance,
Colly
- MSI k9a2-cf bios rev 1.5
- Amd x2 5200XP
- Corsair Memory 2x1GB XMS2-8500 (not had a chance to run at full speed yet!)
- ATI Sapphire HD 2600 XT (256 GDDR4)
- 650W PSU
- Maxtor 320GB SATA
- Seagate 20GB IDE
- SATA DVDRW
- WINXP 32bit SP2

ok guys i'm sold on the psu.  i do remember at one stage when playing around with settings and connections that the graphics card wouldn't send anything to screen.  my tv card is stuttering too so it may well be psu reated (athough that could be the s/w).
Fredrik, I can't find your guide, can you post the link please?
I'm out of the dabs 7day warranty but if i buy another psu from them then maybe they'll take it back.  ok then with my h/w spec:
- MSI k9a2-cf bios rev 1.5
- Amd x2 5200XP
- Corsair Memory 2x1GB XMS2-8500 (not had a chance to run at full speed yet!)
- ATI Sapphire HD 2600 XT (256 GDDR4)
- Maxtor 320GB HDD SATA
- Seagate 20GB HDD IDE
- DVDRW SATA
- WinTV 1110 HVR
- Wireless-n n/w card
...and considering i will at some stage put a phenom in there (and i gotta make use of that memory speed someday  ),  what psu should I buy?  I've noticed that it's not really the wattage that matters but the amps down the rails?  this is a budget pc btw so i've got about £45 to spend - or is that not enough?
thanks for your help - much appreciated!
Colly

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