hi, i have an old pc thts been outta service for 3months and has had some parts taken out,mainly the disk drives and the hard drive. i have some spare disk drives and i have a spare 10gig hdd,i also have a 256ddr ram stick spare.will i be able to set everything up usin these,i will get a bigger hdd at the end of month wen i get paid. but with a 10gig will i b able to get it up and runnin? the reason my friend stopped usin the pc was cause 1day outta the blue the disk drives and the two front usb slots all stopped workin.instead of checkin it out he just scrapd it n got a laptop. what dya think caused this and dya think i will have the same problem even tho im usin different disk drives? i took the whole thing to pieces but all i could find is this: the only markings on the mobo are ' ga-8simlnf rev 2.0 ' i couldnt turn it on so i do not no what bios it has altho there is a chip on the mobo tht reads ' 686 amibios c186 9320 ' so im guessin it is an american megatrends bios. also i dont have a copy of windows xp right now but again i can get 1 wen i get paid. does this matter? the only reason i am doin this pc is for my lil bros bedroom so he can use it to surf the web,do his home work and maybe(once the new hdd is in) use limewire to get some music.there will b absolutely no gameplay at all on this machine.it will be very basic. can anyone help?