Old computer hangs with sata-controller card

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Hi, bought a sata addon pci controller card earlier this week but the computer refuses to boot with it.
I can boot with the card installed and drivers loads and the card works according to windows.
But as soon as i attach a harddrive it stops working, hangs during bootup with a black screen.
I can enter boot menu(F8) but it hangs as soon as i chose either normal bootup or safemode.

SDM PCI SATA RAID 2P (SiL3512) http://www.speeddragon.com/index.php?controller=Default&action=ProductInfo&Id=38
The Moterhboard is a nforce2-based K7n2G-L
The psu is a 420w chieftec
30gb + 46gb Ibm deathstar Pata
160gb + 320gb Seagate barracuda Sata-II

I can boot with both ibm and a cd-reader but not with 1pata and 1sata and cd-burner disconnected so dont think its a power issue.
I have tried to jumper the 160gb seagate to Sata-I but no change.

Can a harddrive be moved from a Intel P965/ICH8R Sata-II controller to the SDM PCI SATA RAID 2P without any need to reformat the harddrive?
What else can cause the computer to hang as soon as windows starts loading?

Regards
 
Tried with the latest Base driverse but windows refused to load them, tried with latest raid drivers and they loaded but the problem is still there.

Also tried to flash bios to a newer one from silicone image's webpage but failed.
Windows bios flash utility from Sil claims there is no storage controller present.
Dos bios flash utility hangs during scan process.
 
If it's not raid you can move it without any problem wherever you like, if it's the hard drive with the MBR your mother board might have a hard time finding where to boot of off. If you MBR is on the drive you moved onto the card you might need to do something with your MBR, (I have a mother board that is weird where it couldn't find it correctly and i had to hit F12 to get to the boot menu and choose the hard drive, took a while to figure out). That might explain the black screen....

Small chance it's a power issue, i ran itno a problem where if i added another hard drive my system wouldn't boot at all fan wouldn't spin up noda. I removed the hard drive it worked, i just upgraded the psu and everything was fine. I had 14 drives in the case.
 
Both seagate harddrives have been used standalone, one of them have a working installation of xp but the other harddrive which i have worked with is purely storage.

Doubt its a power issue since it works fine with 2 pata harddrives connected to the motherboard with a cd-reader and 2 sata-harddrives only connected to the psu.
But hangs if i have 1pata and 1sata harddrive fully connected.

In the process of updating windows, its a rather old installation of xp home so making it up to date and hope it will solve the problem.
If that doesnt help i will hook up the 160gb seagate and try a lowlevel format from the controllercard's bios, can access it before windows starts loading.

Does anyone know what the latest bios for msi k7n2g-l motherboard is?
Tried to find it on microstars webpage but the links didnt work.
 
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