rebuild not booting

[MasterMushu]

Thanks in advance for helping!

First of all: the specs:
win xp home
asus m2n32 sli deluxe wirelss ed.
1gb corsair ram
antec true power 2.0 500w
bfg nvidia 7950gt
amd 64 (am2) 3400+ 2ghz
2 maxtor HD 60gb (master) + 250gb (slave)
lite on dvd +/-Rw
tdk velocd cdrw

OK here we go...
the only thing that was in the old system are the hard drives, both are ide I wanted to try to upgrade without re-installing windows, I read that by changing the ide controller to "standard dual channel ide" I could boot up with a new mb/proc. without the bluescreen of death. In the new system, (the motherboard is mainly for sata but it has one ide channel) I added a pci ide controller card with 2 channels. The hard drives' jumpers are set to master/slave and are connected to the secondary ide channel on the pci controller. The 2 optical drives are on the primary ide channel, nothing is on the motherboards' ide. At startup the pc runs an ide scan and finds everything but the slave HD. I can enter the bios, and upon exiting, windows will start to boot, I see the win xp boot screen for a split second before the pc reboots itself. That's as far as it gets.

[flanzig1]

You probably still have the different drivers for the old mother board on the HD. Try putting the Optical drives on the mother board(start with one drive first) and start with just the HD that has Windows on it(on the primary of the PCI card). You may need to do a repair install of Windows(will need a Microsoft Windows install disc, not a recovery disc from a prebuilt)

[MasterMushu]

I put the os hd on the primary master and the cd drive on the primary slave and the same thing happens, then I reversed them and still nothing. when I put the os cd in the drive it won't boot by it. The drive spins up then down and nothing.

[glc]

Use cable select jumpering, not master/slave. You must put the opticals on the motherboard IDE and you should put the hard drives on the card - primary first.

[MasterMushu]

I did that and now nothing is recognized in the ide scan.

[MasterMushu]

I now have the opticals on the pci master as master/slave and they show up.
I have tried the hdd on both the pci slave and the mb ide and they don't show up.
Thinking I may just take it in to a tech now....it's been down for over a week and it's driving me nuts!