Why can't I use S-ATA ports 3&4 simultaniously?

Hey!
I have been having a problem ever since I got my new Seagate 250GB S-ATA HDD (with NCQ if that makes any differance)... The thing is that I've had a Segate 160GB S-ATA HDD for a while, that I have Windows XP and everything installed on, and now wanted to get some more space for stuff. The old 160GB S-ATA has been connected to S-ATA port 3 on my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, since ports 3 and 4 are the only two that works when you overclock. I then connected my new 250GB HDD to port 4 and started up the computer, and made sure it booted from the correct HDD (the 160GB one). But just when the XP logo started fading in when windows was about to start loading the computer froze....I tried again and the same thing happened. So I tried my 160GB HDD on port 4 just to make sure that the port worked, and it did...everything loaded just as usual. I then tried to connect the 250GB HDD to port 3 instead, and the 160GB HDD to port 4...but the same thing happened when windows started loadning, it just froze.
So...I tried to go back to stock frequencies on everything, but that didn't help either. After that, since I hade stock frequencies, I connected the two HDDs to port 1 & 2....and then tried loadning windows...and this time everything worked.
But surely it can't be meant to be that way that you can't use only ports 3 and 4....? I mean, if so, this motherboard is totally worthless to anyone who wants to overclock, even the slightest, and want to be able to use more than one S-ATA HDD... And the strangest thing with all this is that both port 3 and port 4 works perfectly...just as long as I only use one at a time.
Please tell me there is a setting somewhere or something that I must change in BIOS or something. And oh, I've tried both BIOS v 1.4 (the on it came with) and 1.5 (the latest).
Any help would be greatly apreciated!

1) Agreed -  Maxtor would be boot disk sata system disk  looks ok
2) Good Quote
I will however try to change from auto to large
Has helped others in your position.
3) Xp Turns on dma itself Having it enabled in bios should help during install & boot situations.
luck
Have just been browsing around try enabling raiid & putting your new drive on it as a single drive. see if that helps anything. if not try loading the raid drivers in windows should be ok from Nvidia unified drivers. 5.10. The drivers are in the ide folder.
Seen a few posts in other forums of pps with sata problems + this Re: How to install Windows on SATA using F6 to load Drivers see the Quote
K8N NEO PLAT PROBLEM...HELP!!!
thread as well. I know your OS Disk is ok but putting your new on on the raid & loading drivers into xp may help in a similar way.

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