cgsheen thank you for your help through all this, I am going to buy a Realtek 8139 on ebay for less than 5 busk w/S&H. i think i am also going to wait for the rev2 as it should have my sound card drivers in it and should be able to use my SATA with out too much trouble, although I might also try to do this usb, i am not sure about that yet though.

for right now I am just ecited to see it working at all on my AMD.

anyway, i just wanted to thank you again for the help, i hope that others will be able to look at this thread and get some help too