I don't have a recommendation for a board, but there is no problem running a
hard disk and a DVD on the same IDE ribbon cable. Make the HD master and DVD
slave, although even that order is not  really important.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
I'm looking for a motherboard that will accommodate my IDE devices [hard
drive and DVD], VGA monitor, my Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.0 GHz @1333 FSB CPU,
with 4GB of DDR2 1066MHz memory. My old machine died and I want to upgrade
the CPU and memory but still use some of my IDE peripherals. I have found
some Intel and Gigabyte boards that have built-in VGA but only one IDE
interface. That may work if one could connect both the HD and DVD to one
ribbon connector in a master/slave relationship. I don't know if that can be
done. Does anyone know of a board that meets my needs at +/- $75?

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