HP ProLiant MicroServer

[Neurobasher]

What i would like to know has any one here successfully flashed the bios on the micro server to change the internal PIO SATA connector to normal SATA ??.
And what bios and from where ??
And a brief description of how it was done please
Thanks .

I'm open to correction but I have just got my 40L and when I went into the bios to check there is an option now for Auto 1.5 and 3 on the POI Sata port.

[kayvee]

What i would like to know has any one here successfully flashed the bios on the micro server to change the internal PIO SATA connector to normal SATA ??.
And what bios and from where ??
And a brief description of how it was done please
Thanks .

Yup, did both of my N36L's using TheBay's ROM's, worked a treat.

Thread here.

[Corbin]

Heyall. I recently aquired a Samsung BD-E5500 blu ray player running Plex and have it wired on my home network. I also have the HP N40L with openelec/XBMC wired in my man cave connected to the 46" . I would like to use the E5500 streaming from the N40L to another TV but thus far concluded that xbmc and plex dont talk nicely. I can see openelec as a source but the player does not recognise any files. So i asume i will have to run plex server on the HP .
My question is though does plex only run on Windows ( meaning I will have to re install ) and will my existing drives still work (pnp) since its formated with linux , think .
I have 3 x 2TB . 2 almost full and hate to lose those.
Any better options to suggest pls? Thanks.

[Mike Smit]

Heyall. I recently aquired a Samsung BD-E5500 blu ray player running Plex and have it wired on my home network. I also have the HP N40L with openelec/XBMC wired in my man cave connected to the 46" . I would like to use the E5500 streaming from the N40L to another TV but thus far concluded that xbmc and plex dont talk nicely. I can see openelec as a source but the player does not recognise any files. So i asume i will have to run plex server on the HP .
My question is though does plex only run on Windows ( meaning I will have to re install ) and will my existing drives still work (pnp) since its formated with linux , think .
I have 3 x 2TB . 2 almost full and hate to lose those.
Any better options to suggest pls? Thanks.

If you are going to use Plex then dump the others. I use Plex all over my house quite happily. It is designed for multi room setups.
Plex server runs on Linux too. Check out their website. I am busy playing with an install in Linux Mint at the mo.

The HP chokes under multiple 1080p streams. I ended up turning my HP into a FreeNAS box with 5 x 2TB drives and use an old Core2Duo to run my Plex server (going to upgrade to i3). I ran it on my i7 desktop but felt it was overkill and don't want to run my desktop 24/7.
The HP handled a single 1080p stream or around 3 720p quite okay, so depends on your needs. I was however running Windows which chomps more resources than Linux, which is why I am playing with a Linux Mint setup on one of my other HP's now.

[Corbin]

Thanx Mike. Mybiggest fear is losing the existing data when I plug my drives back. I can easily play around with the 250gb. Nothing much to lose there. I doubt I will watch more than one hd . It would just be nice cause the boys alwYs wanna watch when im watching a game.

[FNfal]

@ Kayvee
Thanks for the reply

[lexor]

Hi

I need some help please.
I'm running windows 7 on my HP-ProLiant-MicroServer - on my 250GB drive.

I now want to replace the 250GB drive with a 3TB drive.

The question is how to get the OS , settings , Sickbeard etc from the 250GB HD to the 3TB drive without losing anything.

There is data on the 3TB already.

Can I just clone the partition from the 250GB drive ?

How do I do this practically ?

Any help will be much appreciated

[Mike Smit]

Thanx Mike. Mybiggest fear is losing the existing data when I plug my drives back. I can easily play around with the 250gb. Nothing much to lose there. I doubt I will watch more than one hd . It would just be nice cause the boys alwYs wanna watch when im watching a game.

Setup a Linux box with a USB stick and see if your drives are readable. Nice and safe route to go.
I went and purchased a whole lot of 4GB sticks for R35 each so I can experiment with these different OS's. Works a treat when you just want to check stuff out before committing to a decision

[Mike Smit]

Hi

I need some help please.
I'm running windows 7 on my HP-ProLiant-MicroServer - on my 250GB drive.

I now want to replace the 250GB drive with a 3TB drive.

The question is how to get the OS , settings , Sickbeard etc from the 250GB HD to the 3TB drive without losing anything.

There is data on the 3TB already.

Can I just clone the partition from the 250GB drive ?

How do I do this practically ?

Any help will be much appreciated

Windows 7 System Image (in backup) works great for stuff like this. It will wipe your 3TB unfortunately.

[Corbin]

Setup a Linux box with a USB stick and see if your drives are readable. Nice and safe route to go.
I went and purchased a whole lot of 4GB sticks for R35 each so I can experiment with these different OS's. Works a treat when you just want to check stuff out before committing to a decision

Shot. Will do that. Now just to get the fam away for the weekend...

[Neurobasher]

Can anyone tell me who has WHS 2011 in stock in SA. Rectron says 6 week waiting period.

[undesign]

Can anyone tell me who has WHS 2011 in stock in SA. Rectron says 6 week waiting period.

Have you tried BiosOnline?

[Neurobasher]

Thanks have mailed them to check if they have stock.

[Zak87]

Hi all really need some help

I have the n40l and I'm trying to install windows xp on it (it's the only is os disk I have)

Anyway it goes through the install and then it give me an error that "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

Also when I start the hp it gives me this error "pse-e61: media test failure"

Anyone else experience this? Google says it's possibly a bad hard drive...I've tried changing some of the settings in the bios with no luck

Anyone else have this same problem and manage to solve it ?

[morkhans]

I believe someone already mentioned that XP is not a supported OS on this platform. You might well also have a hardware issue, but troubleshooting it is going to be a lot harder if you're not working within the framework of what's supported.