OK so, i went and got a new IDE cable thinking that the old one is bad. It is an 80 conductor and opposed to the 40 conductor that was native to the computer. And i still have the same problem. I tried the new cable in the new board and it is the same. It is as if both motherboard don't want to have to do anything with whatever is plugged into the Device 0 slot. This is really strange... I'm going to clear the NVRAM as killians45 suggests. hope that does it....