2008 Server Standard Edition Serious Driver Issues

I purchased an ASUS computer with great specs... i7 processor and 16GB Ram etc...
I took out the regular hard drive (which ran Windows 7 64 bit home perfectly) and put in a SSD drive and then proceeded to install 2008 Server 32 - Bit.
It worked but I saw in the device manager... There were several drivers missing...
The most notable missing one was a triangle exclamation on the Realtek network adaptar.
PCI Communication and a few others were missing.
I tried:
1) several drivers from Realtek (none seemed compatable with server 2008)
2) Getting a wireless USB to get online and then have windows search online.
--- USB wouldn't work with CD....

Here is my guess- for some reason the drivers aren't working on a machine that was designed for home computing... Windows 7 or 7 pro. There aren't any drivers available that will sit well with Server??? So I am at a loss.

I put back in old hard disk and boom everything was perfect. NO missing drivers....
But I want the SSD with the Windows Server 2008 on it.

Thanks for your help and time.
You are all great over here at techsupportguy

Yours,
Andy