Gateway W340ui Dead IDE Controller, alive with Ubuntu

So, I just bought a Gateway W340ui laptop in pristine condition, but dead ide controller. Which means it will not recognize a hard drive or a cd rom. BUT! it recognizes USB bootable devices. AND! will also boot from a media card, i.e. SD card. YAY!

All i did now is go to:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/

and learn how to make a USB bootable drive. Same process also applies to SD card. So if you have a laptop like this one, that doesnt recognize a harddrive or cd rom in the bios settings, take out the hard drive and CD rom cause they're not gonna work in it any more any way and plug in one of these SD cards. 2GB atleast. There you go, you have now a working laptop with a slightly different OS and can still do quite alot with it.

That website above describes the process. It's easy.

get this program

Universal-USB-Installer

And the latest Ubuntu iso from a torrent site, and you're done.