okay, so I bought a computer recently from an auction for next to nothing and I have it set up and running.  I haven't torn it down yet to look through it because I just haven't had the time. As far as i can see it has a dual cpu motherboard with 2 intel Xeon 3.20Ghz proccessors, and 5 SCSI hard drives set up in a RAID(not sure what kind of raid). roughly a 500 WATT psu and 2gig ram. running on Windows 2000 server..

there is soooo much stuff on this computer from the company that had it before me
i just want to reformat the drives and start from the beginning. I have a windows xp cd with a License key.

my question is : when I reformat the drives and load up XP is there anything that needs to take place before I load the new operating system or will the SCSI controller and what not lose it's settings and not work(being that I have no CD's or anything to run to reconfigure).  You will need the SCSI controller drivers for the XP install....
Grab them from the manuf. website.awesome.. I think this should work out nicely =)

pretty good buy for 5 bucks wouldn't you say?

thanks for your help hopefully thats all it will take.. I guess I will find out when I get off work tonight.For five bucks, that's finestkind!
Let us know if you get the SCSI drivers.$5??!?!!!??!?!
What idiot sold that?Not an idiot...just someone who didn't want to deal with it, anymore...or maybe they thought it wasn't working.  Or, maybe the seller thought he'd give somebody a break...  What a break!!well, the guy that sold it packaged the deal.. for five buck i got the sever explained here, another tower that i haven't even looked at yet, an APC backup battery, and a big bag of wires( mostly harddrive connectors and things of that nature). It turns out it was just sitting around in the business that closed down and they had no use for it, and didn't want to mess with it, so they sold it.. for..5..bucks.. haha.

as far as the SCSI drivers go.. I haven't made any real PROGRESS.. i got the drivers for it(it's a intel S7H01*** something..can't really REMEMBER now)
they are loaded on a flash drive.. well turns out i have to have it on a floppy.. and i dont have any floppy drives.. so gotta get some then try it later on this week..

i will post later on if it fixes the problem or if something else comes up from it.  laterWhat a deal!!!!!!!!!!well, just for a update..

I borrowed a External floppy drive from a buddy and got some floppys moved the scsi driver to the disk and booted from the windows cd.. loaded these drivers and they are the wrong ones..

so after downloading and trying roughly 16(no joke) different drivers for it I finally found the right one for it. booted up from the cd for the who knows how many time.. then it said about 15 drivers or so were not on the cd.. when i looked at the cd it was scratched extremely bad, so im guessing that was the problem 

burned a new windows disk.. this time windows xp pro media.. and it is working perfect now.. few more tweaks and i'll have a server up and running..

thanks everyone for riding through the process with me, wish me LUCK on the other tower =Pwhat a lot of work.   I see why he sold it so cheapYes, but impressive that Mr. Man -- I mean, Mr. MISTER stuck with it until he found the correct drivers!  Let us know how the rest goes!!