Added eSATA drive and now system won't boot

[johnnyMon]

Hi Everyone,

 

If anyone can help me with this I'd be really greatful. I bought a WD 500GB drive and an Icy Dock eSATA/USB enclosure. It came with an adapter, a SATA cable to plug into the mobo connected to an eSATA (external SATA) back panel jack.

 

When I have it connected, my system won't boot. The BIOS recognizes the IDE drives, then when it usually says it's detecting the SATA drives, now it says Detecting IDE drives... then it hangs.

 

The drive does work fine connected via USB. But I really want the eSATA speed. I have tried the drive in another SATA port that works fine with one of my internal drives - the same thing happens. I have both SATA 1/2 and 3/4 enabled in BIOS. I have the PCI speed set to 100MHz. The one thing I can't test is whether the drive will hang the system when it's attached directly to the mobo as an internal drive. The drive only has SATA power and I have only molex power connectors.

 

Setup in my sig. Thanks for any help!!