Need to build a new server

[Euroranger]

Good morning all. This is Euroranger. I'm speaking to you this morning from the bottom of The Well Of Personal Tech Despair®. Last evening I foolishly made note of the little yellow "you have Windows updates waiting" icon on my webserver/database server that hosts my website...and, because I apparently suffered a momentarily brain aneurysm, clicked the damned thing.

Long, misery-documenting, profanity-infused story mercifully shorter, my server now does not have a properly functioning installation of IIS. Database runs fine, web server does not. It is so bad that if I leave IIS running when the box restarts, within around 4-5 minutes the entire boxes seizes and dies. Turn web publishing off, we're good.

Now, I do have the Win 2K3 Server disc handy and I assume I'll be able to uninstall/reinstall IIS to make this box return to its previously serviceable state. However, as I was busy inventing new swear words and generally lamenting my pathetic technical state of affairs as surely being the work of a hateful deity, I realized that the box I'm using now is running on a Pentium D and in a moment of clear 20/20 hindsight brilliance, I said to myself "self, if Hateful God doesn't simply end his miserable game with me with a well placed lightning bolt, I should consider building a new box".

To that end, I consulted my latest missive from Microcenter and discovered that they'd be happy to sell me the following two items for a mere $99 total:

Athlon II X4 630 Processor Boxed

A760G M2+Socket AM2/AM2+ 760G mATX Motherboard

I have a case and power supply I can use, I can acquire memory and a HD. My question is this: is there any reason that anyone can give for why Windows 2003 Server would not be installable on a server with this hardware? Is it the optimal hardware for a home web server? Probably not, however, I must take into account my current (and likely future) state of financial destitution and as such, I cannot discern a more affordable means to remedy my issue.

I plan to leave the Server 2005 database on the Pentium D by itself and place the web server on the new box. I'd love to reverse that and put the DB on the meatier box but I have achieved level 1 brazillion on the DBA Fail meter and have no idea how to move a database from one box to another. If I knew how to do that, I'd slap the db on the new box, rehab the current box and get 2003 Server working on that one again.

Anyway, anyone know of a reason why a AMD quad core box wouldn't take and happily service Win 2K3 Server?

Call now...operators are standing by.