Vista Black Screen after installing IDE HDD

Hello,

Help please? I am trying to install my old IDE HDD in my new Vista PC which is SATA. There is no IDE on the motherboard, so I am using an ITE IT-8212 PCI IDE card.

Here's the story so far...

Hit the power button to turn the PC off. Installed the new PCI card. Plugged in the IDE HDD. Switched on the PC. It happened to hibernate rather than restore, and came back resuming windows rather than booting fresh. There were no problems at this stage. It detected the new card. It installed the appropriate driver (itide). It attached the drive to a spare drive letter and asked me what I wanted to do with the new device, import pictures or explore. Sounds good! Unfortunately all is not good. After a real shutdown it won't boot with any IDE HDDs connected to the new card. It boots fine with the card installed, just not if you connect anything. I've been through the BIOS and everything looks ok to me.

Bog standard Vista PC, SATA HDD running in AHCI mode set as the boot device.

Anyone with any info or suggestions much appreciated.
NTL User

check the jumpers on the IDE HDD, if the ribbon cable you are using has the 3 connectors (2 for drives, 1 for board) make sure it is on the top one closest to the middle connector. and make sure that the jumpers are set to master. then, go into the bios and make sure that your boot drive is in first position in the boot order.

i agree, these things work well. used similar products in the past. can be a bit harder to set up due to the adapter, but good non the less

I can safely say it's not supposed to do that from my point of view