SATA HDD causes no POST

I have Two HDD one is a SATA and other is IDE. The sys works fine with IDE one but as soon as I connect SATA drive its stops POST.I have already replced the HDD once and still facing the problem. I know the new drive works fine as i chkd it on another comp but on mine it dosent. I have 8 SATA ports on my MOBO and none of the works!!!! plz HELP!!!!!!
Sys spec
MSI K8N Neo4-F PCB 1.0 [Bios 5.3]
Athlon 64 X2 3200+ with Stock Cooler
1 GB DDR 400 Mhz
NVIDIA 6600GT 256MB
Seagate 160GB, 7200 RPM, SATA
Segate 160 GB 7200 RPM IDE
NEC DVD+/-RW ND-3520A Primary Master
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1612 (16X48) Primary Slave
Windows XP Pro with SP2, Vista Dual BOOT

Finally I got it working yesterday morning and i was able to boot with my IDE drive and it detected my SATA drive too...It worked wonderfully for 3 hrs and I was a happy camper. Today morning I started sys and was going online when the sys restarted suddenly....after that back to square one No post with SATA connected.. intrestingly the diagnostic LED on back of my system gets stuck on initilizing FDD controller I disabled it in bios but still I am facing the same problem ...guys plz help

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