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Then this is your best bet, the first one on the list is £80:

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You would need a PCI graphics card (around £25), the rest you could probably cannibalise.

I agree with you that the best option would be to get an old PC and that is what I tried. I asked the congregation if anyone had one but the ones I got were generally clapped out! I couldn't even really build a half decent one from them. The best one was a Dell one that uses RAMBus but it only had 64Mbytes of it. It would cost almost £200 a Gbyte to upgrade that! I did get one that worked fine for a few months after I got the main fan working again by switching its power supply to another fan outlet, but that one has given up now. I'm going to see if I can run it using a direct supply from the PSU though that will be too noisy for use in church unless I can get a very quiet fan and reduce the voltage to it. I'm also a bit dubious about the mobo as the BIOS control options of the fan outlets (Smart, High, Medium, Low) don't seem to work.

So basically every old PC I got has a problem which is why I am considering a cheap mobo and CPU!

If that is all you are going to be using it for, then a mobo with onboard sound and graphics that will run XP, 1 gig ram.
The problem with buying a new board is that almost all manufactures/suppliers have switched over to PCI 2 graphics cards, so buying separate will increase your costs by at least £25.
You will probably find that RAM taken from an old PC will not work on a new Mobo, so you will have to buy 1 gig. Also the processor needs to be compatible.

It would probably be easier to find an old PC that is running or will run XP, and use that instead of trying to get bits and bobs to work together!

Another option would be to buy a Mobo bundle from someone like Novatech!

I need a cheap mobo/cpu for a PC I am putting together for the local church. Doesn't need to be particularly high specs as it is mainly used for storing and viewing old digitized records and running the CCTV cameras. Any suggestions  or should I just simply buy the cheapest mobo and matching CPU I can find. All the other bits I need I have cannibalised from old PCs.

Thanks for that link Nick, very useful!

You should simply have to click Continue to approve the program - you'll need to be running as an Administrator to be able to do this.

It can get intensely frustrating in Vista constantly having to click Continue for the same processes, particularly trusted ones. Norton released a replacement for the UAC which is far superior - it gives you more information about the process, and you can "trust" certain processes so they don't prompt you again the next time you launch the program. Get it from You are not allowed to view links.
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http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=labs_uac&header=0&depthpath=0

- note it doesn't work in Windows 7, only Windows Vista.

I think this will work (taken from another site):


To configure an application to always run elevated
1.Right-click an application that is not likely to have been assigned an administrative token, such as a word processing application.

2.Click Properties, and then select the Compatibility tab.

3.Under Privilege Level, select Run this program as an administrator, and then click OK.

Note 
If the Run this program as an administrator option is unavailable, it means that the application is blocked from always running elevated, the application does not require administrative credentials to run, the application is part of the current version of Windows Vista, or you are not logged into the computer as an administrator.

Yes am running vista. How do I approve the program?

I take it you are running Vista?
Vista likes to hold your hand, sometimes in a very anoying way, this is one of the main reasons very few people like this OS.
The shield is just to indicate that the shortcut will need you to approve running it first with UAC (User Account Control).
Approve the program and the shield goes away!

I'm curious about why some program shortcuts have a shield on it's shortcut icon but others don't. Any reason for that??