fzabkar wrote:
Maybe the OP could insert a very thin insulator between DB14 and the slot, say a thin piece of paper, or place tape over the connector pin.
I agree with that, and think that it would be more prudent. Cutting traces is always dangereous when one can "slip" and cut the wrong trace, or count from the wrong position ...
Maybe it is something I do not remember or never knew, but could you explain your reasoning for considering that the vga could be causing problems with that bit in the bus ? I can only imagine that if something was wrong with the card, it would not work okay and this would be seen, in artifacts on the screen or wrong colors....
That thing with one bit of the ide traffic being wrong seems so much like those cases with a broken pin in the drive connector that I can´t say the hdd is free of guilt.
I need to see if I have some small IDE disk here. If I cut the relevant pin from it "for science", could we try to reproduce what the OP is experiencing ?