KT6V and GeForce 6600GT

Hi. As I am a newbie to this forum please bear with me. I have a KT6V MS7021 mobo. Today I got a Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT AGP card. When the card was installed the system would not boot past the memory check.
I reseated the card, checked all cables etc and flashed BIOS to version 2.0. Now the system boots ok but does not see any of my IDE drives, even when I put the original graphics card back in.
If I clear CMOS the sytem sees the drives while I set BIOS settings but after 'save and exit' the drives are shown as 'not installed'.
System was as follows:
KT6V MS7021 mobo BIOS ver 2.0
AMD XP 2600+
512K PC2700 RAM
Onboard sound
Gainward GeForce FX5600 AGP card
Apollo VT 300BA  300W PSU
I know that the PSU is not the most powerfull but it was ok this morning.
Any help is appreciated.

Quote from: Glenn on 24-May-05, 07:41:24
Might wanna check your cabling and drive positions on the cables, just to be sure something wasn't overlooked or knocked loose while you were mucking about in the case.
I am carefull of this and I check often. I am confident this is ok.
Quote from: Glenn on 24-May-05, 07:41:24
I take it you did take proper precations to avoid ESD's?
What are ESDs?
Quote from: Glenn on 24-May-05, 07:41:24
And if you set the BIOs settings to Auto for the Drives, save/exit and reboot, they don't show up?
So you are using the same drives successefully on the new board then?
After clear CMOS the drives show. After save/exit and reboot they are shown as 'not installed' (there are 2 drives on each IDE cable, total 4 drives) and they work fine in my new KM4M-V mobo.

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    Originally posted by backwoodz
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    Thanks, I realized after posting this was the incorrect forum. I've put it in the VIA Socket A boards area, and also am trying the Via Arena forums.
    Are you talking about my mainboard or graphics card memory?
    Here's what I've got set under Advanced Chipset:
    Configue SDRAM timing by: SPD
    SDRAM Frequency: HCLK
    SDRAM CAS# Latency: 2.5
    SDRAM Bank Interleave: disabled
    SDRAM 1T command: enabled
    AGP mode: 4x
    AGP comp driving: auto
    Manual AGP comp. driving: CB
    AGP Fast Write: enabled
    AGP Read Synchronization: disabled
    AGP aperture size: 128 mb
    Do any of these settings seem problematic to you?
    Thanks.

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