My SATA hd not seen in BIOS

My new Saegate Serial ATA HD is formatted and I cloned my old drive onto it with Acronis software. The Seagate shows up in "My Computer" and in "disk management" but I am unable to get it to boot. The HD does not show up in the BIOS settings. There is no option in BIOS to enable SATA.
I added this to a 4 year old Sony Viao that had two IDE drives connected to it. The Seagate is connected via a PCI card adapter. Adapter drivers are loaded. Not sure what to do next. Any suggestions appreciated, I tried most of what I could find in the forum on this topic. here is the info on my computer:
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Computer Profile Summary
Computer Name: Valued-a4de119d (in MSHOME)
Profile Date: Saturday, November 01, 2008 8:29:06 AM

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 3, v.3311 (build 2600) Sony Corporation PCV-RZ54G(UC) 28478231
System Serial Number: 3020412
Asset Tag: P090000001000AE473E9923BFD7C
Chassis Serial Number: R4349412
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTek Computer Inc. P4SD-VL
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1005 10/01/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
242.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
216.90 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8162B [CD-ROM drive]
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 USB Device [Hard drive] (4.12 GB) -- drive 5
Sony UMH-U HS-CF USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Sony UMH-U HS-MS USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Sony UMH-U HS-SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-

Main Circuit Board b
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTek Computer Inc. P4SD-VL
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1005 10/01/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
242.00 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
216.90 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8162B [CD-ROM drive]
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 USB Device [Hard drive] (4.12 GB) -- drive 5
Sony UMH-U HS-CF USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Sony UMH-U HS-MS USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Sony UMH-U HS-SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
WDC WD2500JB-00REA0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCANKA608935, rev 20.00K20, SMART Status: Healthy 2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 256 MB (serial number SerNum0)
Slot 'DIMM1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 256 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 1024 MB

 

Since it wasn't described very clearly..... you have a new SATA hard drive plugged into a PCI controller card. This card is installed in an older Sony system. Right? The problem is, the system won't let you boot to the SATA drive on the PCI card, right? Look thru the boot order section in your BIOS and there should be an option for "Add-In Cards". I have seen drives on PCI controllers sometimes listed under "Removable Devices" in the BIOS boot list. You can also try temporarily disconnecting all the other drives: floppy drives, CD/DVD drives, other hard drives; disconnect both the data and power cables and leave ONLY the SATA drive on the PCI card hooked up. Then try to boot to it. If it doesn't boot, do some serious exploration thru your BIOS and see if the drive is listed anywhere. If it is, make note of where/what it is, and set it appropriately. It may be listed as a removable device, as an add-in card/device, or a combination of these. Good luck!!!!!!!

 

DLB,
You have a perfect undrstanding of my issue. My new HD doesn't show up ANYWHERE in my BIOS. I will try disconnecting everything else but lasT time I dIsconnected the older HD I couldn't boot (no HD found).