K9A2 Platinum BSOD with SATA LH-20A1L; cant detect eSATA in XP

Hey everyone, I need some assistance, please.
I am building two identical systems and I am having the same issues with both. I have rotated components and get the same results. Here's what I bought from Newegg:
K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9600 Black Edition
4GB(2x2GB) G Skill DDR2 1000 running dual channel
Sapphire Radeon HD3650 512MB
WD Caviar SE 500GB 7200RPM 3.0 SATA  x3
Lite-On LH-20A1L-05 SATA
CoolerMaster Case
Corsair vx550w psu
Win XP pro 32 bit
So I had a little trouble getting the raid array built with the two WD 500GB drives but I resolved it by disabling the extra Raid control function in the BIOS. So I got a raid 1 array on two of the connections, the SATA optical drive on another, and the eSATA port that  is on the case plugged into the fourth purple connection. Nothing is plugged in to the two red connections. All my issues seem to regard the SATA controller in some way.
The first issue is that whenever I open and the close the cd tray, XP BSDs and says there was an IRQ error. I have installed all updates for windows and the firmware is current on the drive. I tried putting an IDE optical drive in and did not receive the error. I'll probably stand the systems up with the IDE optical drives but I eventually want to get the SATA in there due to the high amount of burning that will be done.
My second problem is with the eSATA connection. I have the third WD500 in an external enclosure that will connect via USB but not through the eSATA cable. I have checked disk management and nothing.
Again I have two of the identical setups and I have been trying different variations of BIOS settings and have not had much luck. I do want to commet about the BIOS though. I'm not sure why, but sometimes some of the settings seem to change without my input. I'm not sure if this is because I am changing on thing and that automatically changes some other setting... anyway, I would be very grateful to anyone that can help me with any of these issues. Thanks in advance.

thanks for the quick response. I appreciate the help.
 one question though. If the eSATA has to be on the promise then if I moved my two hard drives I would lose that function. So, I decided to move the optical drive and the eSATA to the promise and left the RAID set on the SB600. Enabed the extra raid controller, It detected the drives and booted windows fine, only now there is no optical drive in my computer or disk management. The optical drive is deteced by the raid controller and shows as a boot option in the BIOS, just won't show in windows. ALso the eSATA still doesn't show.
I'm going to try a few different configurations and see if I can get some forward momentum built here. thanks for the advice.

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    So I turned my computer off last night, and attempted to turn it on this morning... Btw I am dual booting with Windows 7 64 Ultimate, and then on some partion somewhere I have Windows 7 RC. I will attempt to describe the scenario with these pictures:
    So I couldn't' embed the images properly, so here is the album:
    http://img836.imageshack.us/g/img1657q.jpg/
    The first two pictures are without the Windows 7 Disk inserted. And notice at the starup repair screen, there is no HDD detected, however at boot without the Windows 7 disk, both of my HDDs are detected.
    My system:
    Msi K9a2 Platinum
    WD 500gb @ 7500RPM (I understand my main copy of windows is installed here)
    WD raptor @ 10000RPM
    nVidia Gtx260
    850w PSW
    samsung DVD-RW drive
    Audigy sound card
    AMD ahtlon 6400+ dual core
    I also put the driver CD that came with the motherboard into my PC when I was in the windows repair screen. I attempted to search for some sort of driver, but no luck..
    I am sorry and thank you!
    Luke

    Thanks for the link to the drivers!
    I have burned them to a disk an attempted to load them during the windows start-up recovery. But when I press "Load Drivers" and search the CD (with the given drivers) I cannot find a file that will work.. When I click on a given file, windows says something along the lines of "This file cannot be used".
    What am I doing wrong?
    Thanks!
    Luke 

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