No SATA drives are recognized in Windows but are detected in BIOS.

*sigh*
Irritating problem.
First off, here are my computer specs. (Just built it less than a week ago)
CPU: AMD 64 3500+
CPU Cooling: Stock CPU Fan
Mainboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI 
Mem: Crucial/Mushkin 2GB (4x512)
HDD: (1) 40GB IDE,(1) 160GB IDE (2) 300GB SATA
Video: NVidia GeForce 5200
Sound: Internal Sound Blaster Live! 24 Bit
Misc: (1) DVD+/-RW 16x Drive, (1) 52x CDRW/DVD Combo
Case/PSU: Thermaltake Tsunami Dreams Window Case w/ Thermaltake PurePower 480 Watt PSU
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Here's the issue.
I have no idea what's going on.
OK, I have a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI board that has 6 onboard SATA ports. 2 of these ports are the Sil chipset and the other ports are the NVidia chipset.
I have two 300GB SATA hard drives (Maxtor) hooked up to the Sil channel. (Sata ports 1 and 2) and during boot the system detects them fine. No problems, instantly, as if there was no issue.
I've used these two hard drives in my previous machine so there is a lot of data on it that I do NOT want to lose.
Problem is, neither one of these drives show up in Windows at all!
The driver is installed, according to the Device Manager for the Sil chipset. There are no drives listed under Drive Management other than my IDE drives, and nothing listed under Device Manager either.
If I hook up my hard drives to ANY two other ports, Windows BSOD on boot. I'm thinking because the drivers for the controller aren't installed. But there's only one problem. Device Manager tells me NOTHING about this and I don't have an executable file to install those drivers so I don't know how to install them.
I've been doing research for the last few days, so can someone PLEASE help me?
Oh, and here are two other threads (in a different forum) that I've tried.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?p=3374419#post3374419
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=379406
Please help?

Quote from: Supershanks on 21-February-05, 04:45:46
1)Have you set
OnBoard Sil3132 Mode (Bios Onboard Devices)
This setting allows you to select either SATA and RAID mode for the onboard
Sil3132 RAID chip. Setting options: [SATA], [RAID].
as well as
OnBoard Sil3132 RAID
2)When you enabled Nvidia sata did you recheck the Hard Disk Boot Priority to ensure that your 40gb system disk was at the top.
Easiest waty Enter Bios Enable SATa, reboot Enter bios & check boot order this also lets you know that bios has detected the sata drives ok, as well as checking the boot order.
As far as the BIOS is concerned, I have the chipset set to "SATA."
And as far as the NVidia SATA for some reason it has a hard time detecting my SATA drives while the Sil chipset has no issues at all detecting the drive. I have it so the IDE HDD is the 3rd boot device while the FDD is first and the CDROM is second, but if I recall correctly the PC attempts to boot from the IDE drive before any SATA drives while on the NVidia SATA ASSUMING that the drives are detected in the first place.

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