n0otro

Chevy: I have a 650watt Antec TruePower Trio power supply.
My 3 hard drives + my nvidia geforce 7900GS should be well accounted for. The computer is plugged into a ACP UPS

Anyway, here's an update.
after probably 10-15 tries booting (turning the computer totally off, unplugging it, letting it sit for 1+ hours) as well as ctrl-alt-del rebooting, I wasn't able to get the drives recognized.

I then cleared the CMOS via shorting the jumper, plugged the computer back in and turned it on and my drives appeared. At this point my C: drive was booting, but was taking an INCREDIBLY long amount of time to boot. I mean, normally it would boot in ~30seconds, but now it was taking 15-20 minutes (i was doing other stuff around the house and just letting it sit) when it finally booted up, nothing worked properly and it was still VERY slow. Even when I tried running the Vista install disk, it would take very long.
I powered down, and removed the SATA cable from the c: drive ,so the only SATA i had attached was d: through the secondary SATA channel. It booted my alternate partition quickly. I powered down, and plugged the first SATA drive into my 3rd SATA port and tried to boot, and I got the same slow boot-up. So now it's temporarily unplugged until I figure out what's going on, and i'm using the smaller SATA drive on the secondary channel for my OS. I've tried plugging that one into the first SATA port and it stalls.

This makes me suspect DAI is onto something and I need to get new cables for my drive.

Thanks for your help guys