Here's a question for those of you that know the intricate workings in computers. I have a computer that has a ASUS A7V-VE motherboard and an Athlon XP1800 + (AX1800DMT3C) CPU. It started having problems a while back and I just set it aside. I had a few moments today to play with it, so I set it up and turned it on. I think it has some motherboad problems because if I plug an IDE cable into the "master" connector it either won't recognize the drive is there, or will hang the system. I can take the same ribbon lead and drive plugged into the "slave" IDE connector and it works fine. At the same time the video seems to have some sort of intermittant connection as it flickers and rolls intermittantly. Sometimes pressing or tapping various places on the M/B seems to either correct the video or make it worse. My question is...is this just caused by a bad M/B or can it be a problem with the CPU? I can get a M/B from PC Liquidators that should work with the CPU for about $30 but that M/B takes DDR memory instead of the PC100 that the ASUS now uses, so I don't want to invest money in another M/B and memory to re-use the CPU if the CPU is faulty. It appears to me from the info that I have been able to dig up that the IDE functions are controlled by the chipset, but I wanted to make sure. I appreciate any info that you folks might have.
Barry
