Anyone ever fry a southbridge?

CD-Rom is on IDE channel 2 as master. Windows recognizes the drive, the device manager says it's working correctly. When I try to access the cd-rom, it says: "Please insert disk in Drive D:". I booted to DOS and tried accessing from there, but it says, "CD-ROM101 not reading drive not ready.."

I've tried cleaning the lens, I even swapped the drive out, same problems. I noticed the southbridge is incredibly hot, (it burns to the touch...) Possible it's fried? I had a Shuttle AK31 that did this last year. I ended up daisy chaining the cd-rom to ide1 with the hdd. It worked for a while, and then I had to get pci ata/100 card. What gives?

ive heard of the ide connections themselves dieing but never the southbridge. w/out the southbridge you dont have anything no ide or pci

This is true..:(

The hard drive still works great, as do all my cards. I changed the cables when I changed the drive, and still no go. I tried making the CD-Rom the slave on channel 2, but same symptoms. So is it the EIDE Controller then? If it is, I guess it's RMA for this board. That AK31 was sent back three times with the same issue, and they never got it fixed. I don't think they even speak English over there, so e-mailing tech support is a joke.