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by cm0229

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I installed new video card, I had problems now, my 2 SATA drives will not work. I can't affords to lose the data on those dirves.
HELP???????????

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by nz_justice

reinstall your old video card. If every thing runs with your old card then you know your new video card is a problem.

or

download a boot disk with diagnistic utlities you can try this link, http://tinyurl.com/r4jdy

by hal 9000

Your most likely problem particularly if you have an AMD CPU is an incompatibility between the new Video Card Chip Set and your M'Board Chip set which in this case is killing your SATA controller.

It's one of the big problems with AMD M'Boards because AMD only make CPU's and no chip sets for them there can be massive problems with different chip sets on various components. It's a problem that I haven't run into with Intel Chip Set M'Boards.

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by muddyknees

I'm experiencing the same problem. But when I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, everything's OK.

My theory is that the system boots too fast with the new graphics card, before the SATA drive can power up and get recognized.

Another culprit could be the power supply. With your spanking new graphics card, you may need more juice to power up your drives. Note that initial spin up for hard drives suck up a lot of power.

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