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Well, I was wrong. There are 0 IDE headers, so I needed to use the card anyway. Previous board had card due to only 1 header. So I have it for the 160 GB drive that has XP. Eventually I will replace the drive with a SATA drive, but for now I have blown my budget having to upgrade PSU and add the new DVD drive. Went with Corsair CX600. Also surprised board does not have 3-pin fan connections. Was able to connect directly to PSU tho with adapter.
So far boots to 7 ok, and recognizes both 500 and 160 HDD (left out Hackintosh for now). On to next step of getting XP to boot. Will try Gregockers advice to do repair XP install and see if that does it.