i would have bought from softcom, if they had my model in stock, but mine was the only one they were missing at the time of writting this post. check them out...they have heaps of boards!
i ordered a 160GB hdd from ebay (US$120 later), unfortunately it had YAR41BW0 as the firmware, the harddrive spun up and i thought it was going to work, but BIOS wouldnt recognise it as the Maxtor mod ...