Your last line is where your problem lies. The boot sector is actually on a separate drive from your Windows 7 installation. Thus you must have this other drive plugged in and set to the boot drive in order for your Windows 7 to work. This is why I always tell people to never have more than 1 drive plugged in while installing a Windows OS. While it was a good idea that the boot sector could be corrupted or something, that isnt really the case in this situation. It is just that Windows by default installs its boot sector onto the 1st drive even if that 1st drive is not where the Windows install goes. This is so that if Windows were to install the boot sector onto the drive with the Windows installation, the person would not be able to boot properly or finish the Windows installation unless they manually went into the bios and changed the boot order in the middle of the Windows install, on the first time it has to reboot. Most people wouldnt know this and it would cause more problems than the way it is done now. The solution is one of two things: keep both drives in with the old one set as boot still and boot into your Windows 7 install Boot into the Windows DVD, use it to wipe both drives, turn the computer off and unplug all drives but 1, boot the Windows DVD and install Windows 7. Once you are completely installed, with all drivers installed as well then you can plug in your other drives. Could be either a driver issue or a card issue. The card might have a bad output on it and should be returned but I dont think that is the case. The card can be somewhat picky about its monitor config due to the way its drivers work and having 5 monitor outputs. Most likely it is user error due to bad manufacturer design. If you look at the back of the card you will see two DVI ports. However, they are not the same (even though they look the same). One is digital only and single link, the other is analog or digital and dual link. You probably have your DVI plugged into the dual port and your VGA converter plugged into the digital. It doesnt work because the digital port cannot output to VGA as that is analog. As for which port is which? I dont know. I cant find a picture of that model showing which is for digital only. I would try just swapping your monitor connections. Or I bet it tells you which is which in the manual someplace.
Does this mean that Windows 7 would not install at all on a second drive if a first drive is full? Eskara, you'll need to set the Win7 drive as your primary drive and run startup repair. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html
I seem to have got it working fine so far. Just disonnected my spare HDDs and have reinstalled Win7 on my SATA. Only running that for now but all is well. Hope it stays that way!
Did you get the VGA signal working too? Well in Eskara's case no that wouldnt happen. Since Windows XP has already reserved a small area for the boot sector.
Yeah, I kinda got it working. The ports are marked up for DVI and 1 for DVI/VGA. However the screen wont turn on by itself, I have to unplug the VGA and plug it back in. Detects it perfectly fine then :S Something for me to get my head around I guess. But at least its working and boots now!!
Ahh I see, thanks Enigma. Odd. This might be a flaw in the Monitor Off detection. There might be a workaround for this but both monitors should be fully recognized as long as they are both on and available to be.