Hey. I'm trying to run a SHOUTcast server on a spare computer in my house... so I'm installing Feisty.

I have two spare computers... pretty comparable in specs so it doesn't matter.......

The first computer Ubuntu installs fine, but the PCI is broken.... so Internet doesn't work (I've also attempted to install Win 2000 on this machine)

The second computer the PCI works fine, so Internet would work... BUT for some reason it runs the install unusually slow and eventually just locks up.... (Win 2000 gets file copying errors)

So my solution would be to install Ubuntu on the first PC, swap HDDs and run it on the 2nd... but that breaks X and leaves me with a terminal.....

Is there anything I can run from here to get X working on the second PC?

I've tried:
-dpkg-reconfigure blah blah (If I spelled it wrong, sorry)
-uninstalling and reinstalling ubuntu-desktop (though this gave me an error.... would this be the solution if I was able to do it successfully)
-upgrade to Gutsy (it didn't work, and I did this before un/reinstalling ubuntu-desktop.... the repositories made it break)

Would re-installing ubuntu-desktop successfully solve this issue?

If not, what would?

I'm very desperate.

I hope you already solved the problem.
But anyway this should help someone else.
First, if you use standard kernel (not custom compiled) you should have no problem to move HDD with any linux to other machine and reach terminal.
X would work only if you have VGA card that uses same driver as the source machine.
So, the only thing that need a change is your xorg.conf file.
in Ubuntu /etc/X11/xorg.conf
the option that always work is vesa driver.
If you are able to boot LiveCD, you can safely use its xorg.conf.
Just move your HDD with installation to new machine, boot with LiveCD, open terminal and execute:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /media(or mnt)/<your root partition>/etc/X11
you might need to mount your root partition first.
use sudo mount -l to check where and if its mounted
use sudo fdisk -l to see your partitions

Unfortunately now it hangs during install no matter which PC I'm using. I'm burning a new LiveCD and praying that works.

Thanks for the help