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When you say a pre-2012 motherboard, what technology should or shouldn't it have? And any specific reason for the SSD?
Disclaimer: I have not used or installed 506 for at least 15 years.
For the most part I have used Intel mother boards. I had no problem installing 600 using DH61DL boards until version 206. At one point in 2012 I had 5 of these boards, some 203,204 and 205. When I tried to install 600 on the 206 version, the screen looks like this.
There is a patch for this, that replaces the boot cd for 600, and just loads a kernel, and starts custom. From there, the operating system is installed using the regular cd. I have not tried this with either 507 or 506.
As far as I know there is not an AHCI driver for 506 so the mother board bios has to support the sata controller in compatible ide mode.
I have been using the Intel XPI9400PT network card, but it is no longer available from Intel. It is available from addoncomputer.com.