HP ProLiant MicroServer

Hi . did anyone successfully get a usb3 pci card installed on the N40L ?
Becoming a pain copying media for friends and fam ?
 
Neo_X said:
or you could...... PLEX IT

(just get the family to donate you a fiber line :P)
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The problem would be then that you would become a content provider and if your line goes down, all hell breaks lose.

Better to just say you stream everything and don't download
 
If anyone needs the BIOS update for the N54L PM me and I will send you a link to an upload. You need it to run Server 2012 or Windows 10.
 
Can't believe this is almost a necro!

I'm at our beach house in the Transkei and the Roku refuses to play audio on certain x264 video files. So I installed Plex on my i3 laptop and the Roku streams from it better than my Gen 7 HP microserver back at home.

Is the processor in the Gen 7 really that cr@p and antiquated?
 
FlashSA said:
Can't believe this is almost a necro!

I'm at our beach house in the Transkei and the Roku refuses to play audio on certain x264 video files. So I installed Plex on my i3 laptop and the Roku streams from it better than my Gen 7 HP microserver back at home.

Is the processor in the Gen 7 really that cr@p and antiquated?
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The CPU is 6 years old, the N54L had a dual core low power 2.2GHz AMD.
 
Soul Assassin said:
It's time to retire the MicroServer, maybe repurpose it as a dedicated NAS and get yourself a proper new front end PC. All the current GPU's that have hardware HEVC decoding require at least a 6 pin for power and besides that none of them are half height required by the HP.

I sold my MicroServer and built myself another "server" on a budget around a Intel G3258 and it works great with x265 files.
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So I think I'm in a similar position. I have an N54L and (N40 and N36) and I bought a Samsung Series 7 TV yesterday (55" UHD). So I plugged in the N54L (Openelec) through my soundbar and it struggled a lot - soft reboots, and green lines etc, and the processor was at 100% the entire time. Initially it played some HD content (not sure format) and then it stopped completely. So switched the resolution to HD but I still can't play anything. (I'm hoping I didn't destroy the processor or something??? I'm going to test by rolling back the entire setup)

Anyway, my options are

1. Convert the N54L into a Windows box - $119 USD :( - with plex and Sonarr (currently using audo). Then run plex client off the Samsung Smart Hub. I assume the TV then does the graphics heavy lifting?

2. Keep the openelec setup with audo. Upgrade the graphics card? I think I have a Gt210 or HD5450. From what you've said I'm not sure this will work.

Requirements - some sort of autodownload machine + media player.
 
nadimm said:
So I think I'm in a similar position. I have an N54L and (N40 and N36) and I bought a Samsung Series 7 TV yesterday (55" UHD). So I plugged in the N54L (Openelec) through my soundbar and it struggled a lot - soft reboots, and green lines etc, and the processor was at 100% the entire time. Initially it played some HD content (not sure format) and then it stopped completely. So switched the resolution to HD but I still can't play anything. (I'm hoping I didn't destroy the processor or something??? I'm going to test by rolling back the entire setup)

Anyway, my options are

1. Convert the N54L into a Windows box - $119 USD :( - with plex and Sonarr (currently using audo). Then run plex client off the Samsung Smart Hub. I assume the TV then does the graphics heavy lifting?

2. Keep the openelec setup with audo. Upgrade the graphics card? I think I have a Gt210 or HD5450. From what you've said I'm not sure this will work.

Requirements - some sort of autodownload machine + media player.
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Use the HP as the backend Plex server the Plex client on your TV as frontend.

The Samsung TV should have hardware decoding of up to 10 bit HEVC.
 
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