HP ProLiant MicroServer

I had that thought too... but I've simply got too many memories attached to this little black box. Since I bought it, I've had 3 different jobs, got married, bought three cars, and two houses. It's really come a damn long way with me and I'm going to see it to the end!
 
aleksandar said:
Mine little bit less but just today I was thinking of replacing it only to realise nah it works maybe next year.
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If you keep your power clean, it may outlive you ;)

I have a N36 and a N54 I need to check out. Lightning bit them. No burn marks on the mobos, so hopefully fixable.

I fell back to my N40. Running Proxmox with multiple Ubuntu OSes, RAID10 (4 x 1TB) and 6GB of mem, plus a 2TB backup for the important stuff. Once in a while I take it down, blow out the dust, power it back on. Every night it backs up important databases and stuff, everything automated. Set and forget. Problem is after a few years you forget how you did it. "Hell, was I that bright!" - and you spend two days figuring out what you did. With these servers you have no opportunity to do migration - they just live and live and live ... :p
 
Mine living again.. I keep wanting to replace it with a beefy processor box & nas but never do.. it basically just runs as a downloader, media host, backup server etc and then dev box + prototyping with vms.
 
My N54L had a scare a few weeks back after being off for about a year. When turning it on it had a red logo and nothing on screen. Eventually I took it all apart and put it together and it’s worked fine since.

I also consider it one of the best bang for buck purchases ever.
 
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The Synology Disk Station software is running 100% so far.

Even though it shows an Intel CPU instead of the AMD Turion.

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Also all the regular suspects are available if you add the Community releases. Plex Media server comes as a standard add-on.

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Mine runs Windows Home Server (WHS 2011). Backs up my local boxes every night, Eskom permitting.

Definitely one of my better purchase combinations ...
 
Was thinking of getting rid of mine. Am leaving country as soon as borders open.

N54L, upgraded the ram, and have a graphics card in there and USB wifi , and a few hat drives. Why are these selling for nowadays?
 
Hamish McPanji said:
Was thinking of getting rid of mine. Am leaving country as soon as borders open.

N54L, upgraded the ram, and have a graphics card in there and USB wifi , and a few hat drives. Why are these selling for nowadays?
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I've seen a few go upwards of R3000 depending on the hard drives included. I think a realistic amount would be R1000 - R1500, granted most people got them for less than R1500.

My N40L was still chugging along well until two months ago when I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 and the power went out. Haven't had any time to reinstall yet, but was still chugging along very well for its age.
 
Installed win10 a couple of weeks ago. Installation completed. Didn’t check on drivers. Restarted and fokkol display output. Still pissed. Will attempt to troubleshoot this week. Had this thing so long.

Always had openlec on it but that project stopped and kodi wasn’t that stable. Stupid windows.
 
akescpt said:
Installed win10 a couple of weeks ago. Installation completed. Didn’t check on drivers. Restarted and fokkol display output. Still pissed. Will attempt to troubleshoot this week. Had this thing so long.

Always had openlec on it but that project stopped and kodi wasn’t that stable. Stupid windows.
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So previously, I had to test some of my work across all OSes so mine has 3 of the four drives dedicated to different OSes for that purpose. The main has Cent and the other two each have a windoze (7 and 10).

Now i don't recall this well as it was years ago but going through my USBs, I noticed something on one of them - it was a firmware upgrade to make w10 work. I think. It might be worth checking out.
 
GreGorGy said:
Now i don't recall this well as it was years ago but going through my USBs, I noticed something on one of them - it was a firmware upgrade to make w10 work. I think. It might be worth checking out.
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Wasn't the firmware fix to resolve issues with the network driver on Win10?
 
Napalm2880 said:
Wasn't the firmware fix to resolve issues with the network driver on Win10?
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Yes, it refuses to recognize the NIC after install. Something I looked at a bit before the stupid restart.

If anyone has this firmware upgrade can you please upload and send me a link please. This is one of my favorite pieces of hardware.
 
akescpt said:
Yes, it refuses to recognize the NIC after install. Something I looked at a bit before the stupid restart.

If anyone has this firmware upgrade can you please upload and send me a link please. This is one of my favorite pieces of hardware.
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So I did this about two weeks ago to see how Windows 10 would run.

You have to be running HP Bios 15 November 2013 (2013.10.01A) for NIC to work.
Original here. https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_57720d956df94dfcbaa0e28256

However, there is also a modified version of this which allows you to use the IDE port as a SATA port as with the previous one.

I could not yet the HP tool to run under Windows 10 though to create the bootable auto flash drive.

So I had to find another way. I used Rufus to create a DOS bootable drive and then then ran the BIOS flash manually.
 
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