so far everything went fairly well, considering i decided not to use the case that came with the kit i ordered, because it was fugly.i decided instead of doing a complete build, to replace mobo,cpu,fan, and ram in the compag that i was going to scavenge everything else from. therefore the wires for the power switch,power led, and hdd led did not coincide with the pins on the motherboard. had to take them out of the block they were in and use the blocks from the new case i did not use.
everything else went well, and currently downloading xp sp2