N9A2 Platinum, Installing XP Pro, SP2, Cannot find SATA Hard Drives

I am lost here. I cannot get the bios to recognize the HDs as SATA drives, and XP Pro does not find the HDs (of course), and I do not know why. Do I need a SATA driver floppy for the Install Win drivers <f6> ? I thought not from the other threads here. I am not using Raid.
I have downloaded and read the manual from the support site, Support knowledgebase and every thread that I could find here in this forum.
My setup is the N9A2 Platinum, V1.
Bios v 1.4, 3/112/08
Phenom X3 720
Ultra 750W power Supply
Seagate 500GB SATA HD
WD 80GB SATA HD (for Photoshop scratch drive)
My Bios is set up as follows>
Integrated Peripherals
Extra RAID Controller - Disabled
On-Chip ATA Devices
PCI IDE Busmaster - Enabled
RAID mode - IDE
OK, Any ideas? You folk have a lot more experience with me. Thanks for all/any help.

Ports 5 and 6 ,the red ones ,are for the Promise Extra RAID controller ,which as per BIOS settings was turned off ,thats why the HDD was not detected .You can use that Promise controller with HDD-s ,even if they are not in RAID config ,but drivers are required.
Glad i could help you!

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