HP ProLiant MicroServer

shubz said:
Hi I also have a Hp Proliant server got it for R600 busy of mine works for HP and staff got it for this price. I've been messing with it and put my old Nvidia 9400Gt in for the HDMI. Unfortunately this card does not have built in sound. Can anybody recomend where I can buy a cheap low profile card in the Cape Town area to enable sound. Thanks
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You can send me a PM, picking up some Sapphire HD5450's today or tomorrow.
 
shubz said:
Hi I also have a Hp Proliant server got it for R600 busy of mine works for HP and staff got it for this price. I've been messing with it and put my old Nvidia 9400Gt in for the HDMI. Unfortunately this card does not have built in sound. Can anybody recomend where I can buy a cheap low profile card in the Cape Town area to enable sound. Thanks
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I got my two for a little more than that :) Not sure how some guys got them so cheap...


PostmanPot said:
You can send me a PM, picking up some Sapphire HD5450's today or tomorrow.
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PM me the price please :)
 
jarrodr said:
My friend's company had it on sale, think they buy directly from HP. So I jumped at the chance, should receive it tomorrow. So amped.
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That's crazy cheap, should've bought as many as you could! Hell I'd buy 3 of them as well... Lucky guy!
 
Bought a point of view geforce gt 210 1024mb from esquire today. Fits perfectly :)
 
Starting to think I should have went Nvidia - serious issues getting the 5450 workgin in Linux
 
What would be better? Getting one 4GB DIMM (leaves possibility to upgrade) or two 2GB DIMMs?
 
PostmanPot said:
1 x 4GB.

Sorry to hear about the graphics card, any luck?
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Nope - quite a few articles out there on getting it working - but most seem to be outdated, or packages are missing.... and my damn internet connection keeps timing out on the download of the XBMC source.... I also haven't touched Linux in 10 years, which isn't helping.

I'm sure I'll get it right eventually :p But once I have more ram I can try the windows route.

The actual card itself is working - but its not using hardware acceleration, so hitting the CPU hard - and stuttering on HD content.
 
xrapidx said:
Nope - quite a few articles out there on getting it working - but most seem to be outdated, or packages are missing.... and my damn internet connection keeps timing out on the download of the XBMC source.... I also haven't touched Linux in 10 years, which isn't helping.

I'm sure I'll get it right eventually :p But once I have more ram I can try the windows route.

The actual card itself is working - but its not using hardware acceleration, so hitting the CPU hard - and stuttering on HD content.
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Did you enable VDPAU in XBMC? look in the Video settings if you haven't! Also try the linux drivers from the AMD website they should be the most up-to-date
 
Apologies if this has been covered before but does anyone know if that 200watt PSU is suitable to run 4 x 2TB 7200rpm drives?
 
SomeoneEls said:
Did you enable VDPAU in XBMC? look in the Video settings if you haven't! Also try the linux drivers from the AMD website they should be the most up-to-date
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Yip... It still doesn't use the ATI hardware acceleration.... Apparently its supposed to have VAAPI there...and you enable that...then it flies...
 
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Fudzy said:
Apologies if this has been covered before but does anyone know if that 200watt PSU is suitable to run 4 x 2TB 7200rpm drives?
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Freaksta said:
I wonder how many drives this unit will be able to handle(the PSU)?

You think it would be able to run 6 3.5inch drives and a 2.5inch drive? Or would that put two much strain on the thing, if anyone has a meter(cant remember the name now) to check how much it uses with just the 4 or 5 drives in, please let me know!
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SomeoneEls said:
It should be able to, but some may argue with me! The biggest power draw would be on boot when all the hard-drives spinup. Here's a post from the unRAID forums from a guy with 5 x 3.5" drives a 2.5"

Boot (peak): 115W
Idle (avg): 27W (all drives spun down)
Active (avg): 35W (downloading to cache drive at 20mbps with SABnzbd)
Light use (avg): 36W (unpacking rar with SABnzbd

All the readingsr would be the power used by the power supply and not what's drawn from it.Therefore these numbers would be high the PS is supposedly 85% efficient so around 98w at boot, which makes me think it can take another drive
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Should be fine. Do you have any other cards plugged into it?


xrapidx said:
Yip... It still doesn't use the ATI hardware acceleration.... Apparently its supposed to have VAAPI there...and you enable that...then it flies...
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Apparentely VAAPI (for ATI)isn't enabled in dharma 10.0 and is only enabled in the nightlies of 10.1. Not sure what the solution is you can try this build http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=752888&postcount=109 or use the nighties or maybe try openelec.tv or xbmcfreak or xbmc live.. that is if you don't need to use the pc for anything else

What version of XBMC are you using and what drivers are you using?
 
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I'm using XBMC Live...

About to install windows - tired of this crap :p

I'll give the link you posted a try...do you know off hand if its a iso I can just pop on a USB drive?
 
xrapidx said:
I'm using XBMC Live...

About to install windows - tired of this crap :p

I'll give the link you posted a try...do you know off hand if its a iso I can just pop on a USB drive?
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Sorry I don't, have a feeling your problem is the ATI drivers though. Have a look at openelec.tv though... the boot up is insanely fast compared to xbmc live
 
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