Thanks all.

I'm not having much luck with the hardware, I've tried different cables to connect the devices and triple checked the hard drive master/slave/single settings so I've decided to take a different approach and learn something in the process.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials and/or references on the web for building your own computer? I've decided that I want to try getting a new motherboard and processor and any other odds-and-ends and replace it in this desktop as it is an older one to give it more juice. I know that there is a lot of attention to detail when biulding your own computer because if the settings aren't just right you can fry your computer and yourself if you aren't careful. But I don't have the slightest idea on where to start so any reading I can do to see what I'm up against would be appreciated. Also, if anyone has any links to warehouses that sell the parts cheap on-line would be appreciated as I'm sure that it would be more expensive buying the parts from CompUsa or other such stores.