Thanks in advance for the help.
It's a custom built desktop with a celeron 500mhz and 190mb ram. The motherboard is a Soyo SY-71WM/LV1.0 and it uses the onboard video which is the intel 82810-DC100 CGC(chipset graphics controller).
The keyboard is ps2 and it was a text based installation during which I remember I could only navigate through using the tab key instead of pressing the highlighted letter like for example "x" for next. The keyboard brand is mitsuko. I for some reason was able to type a username and password during installation, however, and I was able to type my password in a dialog box once in linux but after that the keyboard myseriously stopped functioning.
I didn't set up any sort of video resolution during the install and once in linux I went into the video settings but my only choices were 640x480 (which I was currently in) or 320x240.
I should also note that the first couple times I tried the install, it just froze while trying to format the disk. I was able to get past this by doing a manual install where it would ask me whether or not I wanted it to search for and load drivers for certain hardware, and I only chose minimal settings.