Well the g/f parents absolutely loved the machine. Good timing too as his current 800Mhz amd is dying fast. No onboard usb is working on his old POS board so he cant plug in a keyboard. even tried a ps2 but no go, even tried a two usb expansion card which plugs into the usb pins on the board - but failure.

He thinks I am going to find a replacement board for cheap and has no idea theres a custom case with dual core Intel, 2 gigs of supertalent, a 74 gig rappy and a 24' LCD waiting in his grandparent's gift hiding closet lol

Mom's build is nearly complete( not to mention a rebuild of my own in a much better case) - then I am going to custom another build for a friend upstairs in this building. When I get some parts for that build I will post photos in a new thread to show progress. Good news is - soon we will be moving and I will have a workspace for doing repairs, builds and mods.