Got my old HP rebuilt today for my sister to use for general web browsing & music.
Sorry about the phone pics.
The Motherboard from the HP is really fussy,Does not really like using Sata drives even in 1.5 Gbit/s mode,so i stuck with IDE but at least its a 7200Rpm drive.
Also i cant remember what happened to the original HP PSU but i shoved a Gigabyte SuperB 460W in that i had spare.
For the OS,i was going to go with Linux,But i don't think it likes my system too much..ive tried Lubuntu 12.10,Elementry OS (BETA) and some other old ubuntu version i had lying around on disk and all of them would just not move past the install screen..again not sure whats up there.
So had to stick with XP Pro.
Final specs.
AMD Sempron 2800+,Asus a7v8x-LA motherboard ,1.25GB PC3200 ram ,ATI 9600 Pro 256Mb AGP,Seagate Barracuda 120Gb 7200Rpm,Xp Pro SP2.
Il see how it does,If it struggles then il just buy a cheap LGA 775 board,and shove in my spare E6300 & 1GB of DDR2 800Mhz ram,But so far it seems fine.