Thank you for all of your adivce ...
finally got it running with 2 sticks of 4gb ram
I even put it in slots 1 and 2 when the book said to put it in 3 and 4
plus the little power switch was tricky too
boots into new windows 7 64bit and the genius keyboard was only for Vista
usb modem for Vista needs new driver too and still trying to get online
lots of work, but sure feels good to up and running something