
So my gaming computer finally died a death a couple of months ago while in the process of moving house. Best I can tell, the disk controller is fried, as it is failing to detect any bootable disks, even with known-good hard disks in place, and booting from a Windows or Ubuntu disk gives me an error about attempts being made to write to read-only memory. So, I'm looking at a new motherboard and processor. Trouble is, I've been out of the hardware game for a while (kids will do that to you), so I'm not too sure what I'm really looking for. Can anyone give me some suggestions on a decent motherboard/processor combo that:
1) Has PCI Express slots
2) Supports IDE and SATA
3) Is somewhere below $1000?