well sorry for giving too much info. i just as i said am new to server have no clue and wasn't sure if i was giving the correct info needed for any one that might have tried to help.

"well sorry for giving too much info"

There is no such thing as "too much info" in tech support ... it just wasn't relevant :)  (note the smiley's ... I'm not chastising you ... you said you were new to this ... just showing you the ropes)

Have you made any progress?

Unfortunately not yet, I have houghsnet and i used up my monthly allowance downloading unnecessary things to try to get it to work. i searched for the SMTD and came up with what i believed to be rite, but houghsnet is so slow after used up allowance that the downloads keep failing, the file is 2+gb's so ill have to wait until my gb's get renewed at end of month or take my laptop somewhere and download it. Ive been spending my time meanwhile reading up and have found out i have a lot to learn. Thank you and I will report back as soon as I get The SMTD and try it.

Here is a link to SMTD, to possibly save you more unnecessary downloads.  I was not where I could get you a link before.

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-840?driverId=68RWT&osCode=LHS64&fileId=2731101038&languageCode=EN&categoryId=SZ

You will need BOTH DVD images, and will need to concatenate them using the copy /b command ... check the Installation Instructions on the download page for each ISO for more details.

"Ive been spending my time meanwhile reading up and have found out i have a lot to learn."

If you have any questions, let me know.

Install directly from the operating system DVD.  You will need to configure RAID manually in the configuration utility for your controller, and you will need to load the driver for that controller during the installation process.

Which controller do you have?

Thank you for the help, but I am still having a problem i download and merged files with no issue's.  the problem I am having now is that i run the SMTD and when I get to the select operating system menu I still do not find my operating system in the list. My disk is a  Original not copied with COA  windows small business sever 2008 standard 64 bit.  As Im sure your more then aware of this from my first post. but in the list I have tried to load it using these choices  " essential business server 2008,  windows server 2008 R2 x64,   windows small business server 2011"    all of coarse with no success                " not  that I expected any because I am aware that none of them correspond to my disk"

but i figured I would try them because my os is not in the list?   Any ideas short of buying a os that is in the list?

Thank you for any help

SO I guess Im clueless I tried to find out what I have for a controller and I apparently cant find it, also I tried to load from the disk and as it starts it comes up with a window as its loading that says 

system build and update utility

please insert a valid windows server 2008 dvd into dvd drive

so I suspect that it has the previous attempt still in it and its trying to boot off the last session with SMTD

Is there a way to reset the set up so i can boot from disk?

Oh yes sorry I did know what controller i have i was thinking something different SAS 5   and I have removed the SMTD and rebooted with my os disk but everytime i get the same message and it ejects my disk

The controller should be listed during POST, on the screen as things load.  PERC 5/6, SAS 5/6, CERC, etc.

It is booting to files it wrote to your hard drive during the [aborted] install ... you need to go to the BIOS Setup (F2) and change the boot order so that your CD/DVD drive is FIRST.

Remove the SMTD DVD, insert the SBS disc, and reboot.

OK  well I did that and it went rite back to the same screen after the server beeped repeatedly for a minute so im guessing i need to find a beep code list for the machine and repair that issue first.

Maybe your OS disc is bad.

What is the beep code/pattern?

the os disk is new,

it  rapidly beeps for 10 or 15 seconds very quick pause does the same thing over and over about 3 times