Is that the machine that had problems with the motherboard shorting out against the chassis?
That's the one. Weirdest thing; left the machine running all night, come home and it runs fine. Logging in and out of WoW no problems. WTF! How did letting it sit for a few hours fix whatever was wrong with it? Grrr, I honestly think my freakin mobo is jacked up in some physical way. Balog, sounds like you have a couple of different problems. I'd check all of your connectors, and take a hard look at the video card and it's drivers.
Integral video, good drivers. As for connectors don't even get me friggin started..... The IDE cable is fine, optical drive is good, but even tho it's reading CD's from the 80 pin, it insists it can't detect it and no cable is plugged in.
It took me several very frustrating weeks to get this damn thing running, so after it was up I really didn't want to start the all over again. Looks like I may have to.