Using A Server As A Desktop

So i recently came across a server that was given to me

The server already had everything i needed inside with the exception of an OS and a hard drive.

This is a fujitsu tx1330m3

this seems to have official support for red hat linux, open suse annd windows server versions of 2016 and up

The specs on this server are fairly modern, and i wanted to install windows 10 on it.
I bought some keys for windows 10 when they were on sale last year but havent used them for the builds i thought i would get around to so i figured i would use it on this server.

I am aware there may be some hardware incompatibility with windows 10 but using other servers from say dell I never really had much of an issue using it as a consumer windows machine.

Anyways my dilemma right now is that i can't even install windows it won't auto load the hard drive drivers ( not the hard drives themselves but the connections on the motherboard that connect to them) . So it doesn't even detect my hard drives

I tried to load the drivers from a usb stick pulling the windows server ones but no go

I would be really keen on using this machine because it has a lot better specs than my main pc such as: more ram and DDR4 , quad core zeon CPU, and gold rated PSU

 

Check the BIOS, are the drives detected? Is there an option for legacy boot? What model is it?

 

According to the data sheet, that server comes with a RAID controller. The Windows 10 installer probably doesn't have a driver for that server-grade component. If you can identify the controller, then you might be able to download the driver for it and tell the Windows installer to load the driver. That would make your drives visible to the operating system.

 

Do you have 8 or 16 internal ports on your mainboard? Looks like they were punched out by a company called LSI.

If you have 8 ports, the LSI 400 series driver may work.
If you have 16 ports, the LSI 500 series driver may work.

I would pull the card, and get the exact model number for the LSI driver.

 

P.S. Can't find a link for a driver that MalwareBytes doesn't flag.

 

Try here:

https://support.ts.fujitsu.com/IndexDownload.asp?lng=COM

Click on Product Search, and enter your model number.