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Previous events could get your top 10 items from your wishlist. There was no mention of that this year.
Some winners got their entire wishlist (I think), and the grand prize was all currently released games on steam(The event conveniently ended just days before Portal 2 was released).
Again, none of that happening this year.

I heard it used to be respectable. There are entire websites dedicated to ranting about their current situation. This probably isn't the best place for discussing it. It gets pretty heated.

Nobody ever really just WANTS to buy Windows... B^)
I was just going off the picture of the motherboard. Obvously you got the 8GB variant. That'll do quite nicely.

Vhee have Vheays of making you talk!

Try all combinations. I'd start with numbers though.
How many circle symbols are on that card?
Thats 2^N number of different attempts. If you enter a bad code it does nothing. Enter a good code and it works and you can throw the code out.

Did the old case break?
Are you trying to get the maximum amount of hard drive slots?
By the way, that board only has ONE PCI-X slot. You can only put one card in (no SLI/Crossfire, ever). I also see it only has two ram slots. Unless you can put in two 2GB memory sticks you're going to run into memory issues.
Also this board looks REMARKABLY similar in layout and features to my Intel D101GGC which is most sincerely continued (2003 technology). It will definitely play most games well, but its showing its age (Pentium4 3Ghz Hyperthreaded).

The better purchase long term may be a fully loaded board. Get the fancy graphics cards later, but then you can use them as soon as you do.

Validate Half-Life 2 perhaps?

uATX or larger then. Basically anything.

If you get a case that is MUCH larger, the board will still fit.
And.. you have a square board? Is this the Rasberri Pi?(check spelling)

Try this:
Shut down steam (to stop the current download right were it is)
put the CD in
Re-run the installer from the CD (if there even is one)
Hopefully it will install what it can from the disk but in order to play it you need to continue online to get all the patches synchronized. After that you can put steam into offline mode. You have to be currently connected and online in order to get into offline mode (and then disconnect your internet).

Sad to say, but game companies just assume everyone has high-speed internet. They probably wrote the installer on the CD with that assumption and have it prefer to download if it even smells an internet connection. I don't know as I don't have this game, nor the CD.

When you buy a boxed steam game from a store you're really paying for the box, the CD(which you can immediately destory as explained below), installation manual (that says install steam, etc), a proper manual for the game itself(if you're lucky) and that CD key.

You can throw away everything except the CD key as you can enter it on steam(free download, free account). Afterwards, you can toss that too. Preferrably in a recycle bin.

Do keep your receipts though, just in case something happens. Also once you actually enter the CD key there is absolutely no refunding or returning the game so choose wisely.