HP Microserver

OhYeah84 said:
Beelink GK35 Mini PC (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Intel HD Graphics 500 with 4K display - I don't have a TV that can do 4K, Intel Celeron Apollo Lake J3455) and an additional 2TB 2.5" HDD to install into it.

Cost me R4500

I looked at the NUC, but they're tremendously expensive. Barebones for the most part too in which case your costs increase astronomically and it's then worthwhile to look at a proper PC which I wasn't interested in doing.

I priced the same hardware on Takealot and it was cheaper for me to ship the hardware from Amazon instead by a decent amount of money.
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I was looking for an item on eBay yesterday and decided (out of interest) to search for a NUC. The results were pretty reasonable to someone who knows nowt about both purchasing from eBay or Intel NUCs <sob>.:)

Intel NUC D54250WYK Micro PC Intel i5 4250U 8GB RAM 250GB SSD Win10 Pro Mini PC Pre-Owned ZAR 1,017.89 ​

Especially given the current dearth of Raspberry Pi's etc.
 
A few years ago you could pick up NUCs for a song.

I remember paying R3000 for mine. It was an 8th Gen with the Iris Pro GPU that had a small amount of dedicated VRAM, 4GB RAM (I later upgraded to 16GB) and a spinning rust HDD that I left in there and then just added an NVMe boot drive.

Those ones would have made great Plex boxes as they were very efficient if you used Intel QuickSync.
 
rrh said:
I was looking for an item on eBay yesterday and decided (out of interest) to search for a NUC. The results were pretty reasonable to someone who knows nowt about both purchasing from eBay or Intel NUCs <sob>.:)

Intel NUC D54250WYK Micro PC Intel i5 4250U 8GB RAM 250GB SSD Win10 Pro Mini PC Pre-Owned ZAR 1,017.89 ​

Especially given the current dearth of Raspberry Pi's etc.
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I wanted something from new and the NUC, while amazing, was just too expensive. Beelink looks like it will do the trick nicely.
 
Upgraded to OMV 6.0.24-1 tonight. It took about 20 minutes with the slow Turion Neo CPU, but surprisingly everything worked afterwards. The installer did recommend a reboot which I did, so let's see if I can beat the 144-day uptime that I had prior :)

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urg, my HP microserver seems to have died, perhaps due to loadshedding and the constant on/off

The light on the start button still illuminates, but when I press start nothing happens. I am thinking the motherboard probably died?
 
Tman* said:
urg, my HP microserver seems to have died, perhaps due to loadshedding and the constant on/off

The light on the start button still illuminates, but when I press start nothing happens. I am thinking the motherboard probably died?
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Oh no.

Which gen?
 
Tman* said:
urg, my HP microserver seems to have died, perhaps due to loadshedding and the constant on/off

The light on the start button still illuminates, but when I press start nothing happens. I am thinking the motherboard probably died?
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Unplug everything except for a DIMM of memory and the CPU and see if it starts up. Then add in the boot drive and go from there.
But also look at unplugging the PC from power completely. I had that a few times. Red light, nothing shows up and I left is powered off for a few hours. Seemed to do the trick.
 
My N36L is running Ubuntu server 16.04,with a couple of containers (Plex, Ubiquiti Controller) and is still going strong. Granted, I only started using it seriously about 3 years ago, but it's a little beast. I've upped the Ram to 4GB, and I had to add a pci nic, as the inboard one gave me issues, but still.

Colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that the Intel Nuc he bought for his mom, gave issues after 3 years. The fan failed. Apparently it is a common issue. Very disappointing, but given the price.
 
OhYeah84 said:
Unplug everything except for a DIMM of memory and the CPU and see if it starts up. Then add in the boot drive and go from there.
But also look at unplugging the PC from power completely. I had that a few times. Red light, nothing shows up and I left is powered off for a few hours. Seemed to do the trick.
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Thanks, will give it a try
PhireSide said:
Oh no.

Which gen?
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They seem to keep their value. Just sold my old one for almost double what I paid for it.
Although I did get it at a really good price.
 
AntennaMan said:
My N36L is running Ubuntu server 16.04,with a couple of containers (Plex, Ubiquiti Controller) and is still going strong. Granted, I only started using it seriously about 3 years ago, but it's a little beast. I've upped the Ram to 4GB, and I had to add a pci nic, as the inboard one gave me issues, but still.

Colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that the Intel Nuc he bought for his mom, gave issues after 3 years. The fan failed. Apparently it is a common issue. Very disappointing, but given the price.
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Onboard one I seem to recall was a BIOS flash to resolve it.

Remember having the same problem with Windows8 way back when I fiddled with that.
 
Mr Scratch said:
More RAM, single 8GB DIMM for now, another when you can
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I would also recommend ram, but suggest DDR3 PC3-10600 either 2x 4GB or 2x 8GB to take advantage of dual channel.

As a media streamer, you might also be suffering from lag from an 5,400RPM harddisk, which might be improved with an SSD.
 
I have an old Microserver N36 I think. It stopped working a couple of months ago, think it is the power supply. Feels wrong throwing it out so if anyone wants it for parts and can collect in North Riding you are welcome to it.

No drives, just the Microserver.
 
Nivec said:
I have an old Microserver N36 I think. It stopped working a couple of months ago, think it is the power supply. Feels wrong throwing it out so if anyone wants it for parts and can collect in North Riding you are welcome to it.

No drives, just the Microserver.
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@Tman* has a problematic N54L, not sure if he is in the area and could use this?
 
I have an old Microserver N36 I think. It stopped working a couple of months ago, think it is the power supply. Feels wrong throwing it out so if anyone wants it for parts and can collect in North Riding you are welcome to it.
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@Tman* has a problematic N54L, not sure if he is in the area and could use this?
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If he is not interested, I am ... :)
 
Pho3nix said:
No. This is the Gen8 and needs ECC ram. Get it from eBay
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Got it from eBay, 2x 8GB DIMMs so now this baby's drowning in 16GB, and while not blazingly fast by contemporary standards, she is quite brisk, a huge difference! Wowee, should have done it a long time ago.

Thanks to you and @karnuffel !

I now have a 4GB ECC factory DIMM and no use for it, so you have first dibs if you need it for something, @karnuffel second dibs. Let me know via PM.
 
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