coreyWOTfasnacht

what OS or backup software are you running? and im assuming your running RAID, correct?

Go with what you have (minus the video card, if you have on-board video), and lots of drive space. you may want to go with RAID 1. so, heres a simple parts list (some may not apply since i dont know what you have): 2-4GB of RAM ($30-80) 2-6(depending on number of SATA ports and RAID setup) 1.5TB WD green drives (keep in mind that only half the space will be used in RAID 1) ($110 each) 350 watt PSU ($30-50) cheap IDE boot drive ($40 if you dont have one laying around) ubuntu or home server (free-$100) you will only need an optical drive to install the OS and you can also add USB drives later also you want some cheap fans mounted in front of the drives. another thing you can do is underclock the processor to help keep it cool and use less power

I've had this problem before. The drive lost power while it was writing to the drive, it wiped all the data on the board of the drive (i just happened to have some software from texas instruments ) So in a nutshell, the drive forgets what it is. the best thing you can do is do a board swap as paulktreg said. just remove the board form the new drive and toss it on your old one. hope this helps

I'd start by rolling the BIOS back to 1.50 or 1.40. i hope the new info helps