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All the parts arrived a couple days ago. The parts were from an HP Pavilion.

List of Parts:
900MHz Athlon Classic Slot A w/ Golden Orb HSF
Asus K7M OEM motherboard for HP
2x128megsPC100
Asus TNT2 AGP 32meg
Creative PCI sound card
10/100 PCI NIC
56k Winmodem
HP Multimedia USB keyboard
HP Recovery CDs


All the above for $60 shipped.

Parts that I had:
400w CompUSA PS
old two button PS/2 mouse
IDE cables

Freebies a Co-worker gave me:
8.5 gig ATA33/7200rpm Seagate HD <--- no errors after a low level format
36x US Drives CD-ROM
NEC 4x4 MultiSpin 4 disk CD-ROM (might use this to play with)

The seller of the parts said it had reboot problems after it warmed up, I played with it for about two hours and no problems with it. All was assembled and sitting on my desk without a tower. Now I need to find a cheap tower for it so that I can get it on the Folding Wagon. Not too shabby for what I spent on it.

good moves...that's a mighty fine computer for such a cheap price. Nice job on the steal!

very nice, I need to slap together a couple more, cant find small hd's for a decent price though

The Seagate wouldn't format completely in WinXP or DOS. After I ran a low level format, it was working good.

If you can't get one locally, I have a crappy mid-tower case - the kind where the PS mounts vertically - you can have for shipping.

I don't think a vertical mounted PS with a Slot A will fit. I was thinking about making one out of wood. I'm no carpenter but I'd give it a whirl.