My Master Drive @ 10.4.8 won't boot up now - It auto boots to Backup Drive

As of this morning when I booted up to my Master SATA drive (10.4.8) my secondary ATA drive (Backup OS 10.4) came up instead. This happened before several weeks ago and when I just restarted it booted up with the correct Master drive instead. This time its not happening and the strange thing is when I restart under the Start Disk preference panel with my Master drive highlighted it still boots with the backup drive instead.
Back in Dec 2006 I installed an
ACARD AEC-6290M Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Channel PCI Controller Card
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ACARD/AEC6290M/\
for a new Seagate 400GB SATA drive (Mac friendly retail box version)
At that time I also upgraded the standard 400 MHz processor to
OWC Mercury Extreme [email protected] 2MB L3 Cache
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEG42M1500/
Everything has been AOK until now. Can't imagine my ACARD is the problem being that I can still see my master drive when booted under my backup drive. I just can't boot to it and when I throw in a OS X Tiger Install Disk it doesn't see any OS on that drive at all.
The last update for anything that I did was iTunes 7.3 a few days ago.
Anybody have clue or good idea what it could be?
PowerMac G4 400MHZ-upgraded to 1.5 GHZ thru OWC Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Have you tried going into Disk Utility, on your working drive, and see if you can run a repair on your main drive? Check your S.M.A.R.T status, on that drive, if you are able to see it in there.
Dr.Smokes Disk Utility link will show you how.
If you have DiskWarrior run that instead.
Cheers!
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