Sorry I was so wrapped up the whole man over machine triumph thing I neglected to mention the install. Initially I had only installed the Samba Server. After re-reading the step by step online guide I realized I missed a step.I reinstalled on another HD and included OpenSSH Server. Then everything w...

First I made an amateur mistake. The BIOS wouldn't recognize the Hard drive. Proceeding before you make that connection will result in failure every time. I decided to recheck my electrical connections because two of my case fans had quit working. I discovered that a portion of my power supply was n...

Success, I have managed to resolve the hardware issue I was having. Seems that I had a bad hard drive and an issue with a modular power cord.
Install went relatively smoth. Not certain about some of the choices I made while installing but it is functioning.

It has SATA ports built in. but I do have a SATA card that I can install.
I will try that and let you know. Thanks for the suggestion.

The MB is probably 3+ yrs old funny how that dosent seem like much but then Vista was cool...LOL

The bios does not recognize the HD I assumed that the drivers would be loadable from that prompt. After closer review of the steps I have taken looks like I will need to build a chipset driver disk for the VIA chip to load at that point instead of the manufactures driver disk. I gathered this from a...

I have run into an issue on the initial install of Ubuntu Server. midway through the set up I was asked to provide the disk driver. The HD is a WD green 1TB SATA I looked online for the board drivers, downloaded them to a disk. The choices did not show anything for a WD drive. Not sure what to do ne...

Hey everyone. Midwestern born Floridian transplant. Absolute newbie... Plan to use an old pc shell with a new HD, 1TB Foxcon mb Phenom AM2, 2gb Ram 650W PS to begin. Like most, I gather, looking to integrate windows users with a linux media server for streaming entertainment. Link to PS3 and maybe o...