I have an Asus A7V 133C mobo, in the Bios, S.M.A.R.T. can not be enabled, it failed while I had a Fujitsu 40 GB HDD, the HDD is damaged (I've run the Fujitsu diagnostics over it and it says that S.M.A.R.T. on the HDD has failed). I've just put a second hand (but perfectly working) Maxtor 15 GB HDD in and I'm still having the same problems (will be downloading maxtor diagnostics shortly). The HDD and CD drive both need to be run on the secondary ide in order to work but even now this is not working properly. (CD will not read on primary unless the disk autostarts but frequently only reads 20 - 30% of the disk, HDD on primary is slow and makes anything run in jerk-o-vision).

Has anyone else had this problem? Do you think my mobo has been partially fried? I'm really interested as this is a first for me.

Any comments/advice greatfully received.