HP ProLiant MicroServer

1 Execute the HP install file and let it prepare your USB stick – follow the instructions on the web page that pops up after it installs.
2 Copy the unzipped O41_AHCI.ROM file (after extracting from the zip file) to the same USB stick
3 Copy the “flash.bat” file onto itself in the same directory and rename to “ahci.bat”
4 Open “ahci.bat” in a text editor and replace the ORIGINAL.ROM filename with the O41_AHCI.ROM filename, save (should look like this: kbd /”flash O41_ahci.rom -r 100000,10000 -r 1e0000,10000;q”)
5 Put the USB stick in and boot from it (you’ll need a monitor and keyboard obviously)
6 Restart server – it will auto execute the first HP BIOS update automatically
7 At the command prompt enter ahci.bat and press return to flash the patched BIOS
8 Remove USB stick
9 Restart the machine and enter BIOS with F10 and load defaults. Save and restart.
10 Enter BIOS with F10
11 Go to the Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration (New Menu!)
12 Enable OnChip Sata Channel, OnChip IDE Type to IDE, Sata ID Combined Mode to Disabled and SATA ESP and SATA Power on all PORT to Enabled.

I don't quite understand the part in red - should i make a copy, just rename it, or what :confused:

As for the green part - I'm running OpenELEC, I have NO Command Prompt at all as OpenElec has no OS (basically)
Would I get a prompt after the first flash or something?

also, what happens if I stuff this up....can I re-flash? :erm:



Thanks for the help mate!
 
Keeper said:
1 Execute the HP install file and let it prepare your USB stick – follow the instructions on the web page that pops up after it installs.
2 Copy the unzipped O41_AHCI.ROM file (after extracting from the zip file) to the same USB stick
3 Copy the “flash.bat” file onto itself in the same directory and rename to “ahci.bat”
4 Open “ahci.bat” in a text editor and replace the ORIGINAL.ROM filename with the O41_AHCI.ROM filename, save (should look like this: kbd /”flash O41_ahci.rom -r 100000,10000 -r 1e0000,10000;q”)
5 Put the USB stick in and boot from it (you’ll need a monitor and keyboard obviously)
6 Restart server – it will auto execute the first HP BIOS update automatically
7 At the command prompt enter ahci.bat and press return to flash the patched BIOS
8 Remove USB stick
9 Restart the machine and enter BIOS with F10 and load defaults. Save and restart.
10 Enter BIOS with F10
11 Go to the Chipset Menu > Southbridge Configuration > SB SATA Configuration (New Menu!)
12 Enable OnChip Sata Channel, OnChip IDE Type to IDE, Sata ID Combined Mode to Disabled and SATA ESP and SATA Power on all PORT to Enabled.

I don't quite understand the part in red - should i make a copy, just rename it, or what :confused:

As for the green part - I'm running OpenELEC, I have NO Command Prompt at all as OpenElec has no OS (basically)
Would I get a prompt after the first flash or something?

also, what happens if I stuff this up....can I re-flash? :erm:



Thanks for the help mate!
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Make a copy
The command prompt will show up after the first flash, doesn't have anything to do with your os.

Hmmm no idea! I've never broken anything flashing the bios before! *But unfortunately I won't take responsibility if anything breaks either!:erm:
 
Just a quick question guys:
I read somewhere in the thread that HP Shop and Digital Planet is the same place, so it would be better to order from Digital Planet to get the free delivery than HP Shop and still pay for shipping.
Also, what is the current situation with Digital Planet? I had problems with them before but heard that the service has become better in the last year or so.
 
I see HP Shop is flogging the MicroServer bundled with WHS_2011 for R1699.00 for those interested in M$.

FOSS FTW however :)


Edit : It's still the "old" 1.3GHz 1GB model.
 
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kayvee said:
I see HP Shop is flogging the MicroServer bundled with WHS_2011 for R1699.00 for those interested in M$.

FOSS FTW however :)


Edit : It's still the "old" 1.3GHz 1GB model.
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Shows as R1719 my side and I see hpshop aren't selling it without WHS anymore!

Freakboy said:
Just a quick question guys:
I read somewhere in the thread that HP Shop and Digital Planet is the same place, so it would be better to order from Digital Planet to get the free delivery than HP Shop and still pay for shipping.
Also, what is the current situation with Digital Planet? I had problems with them before but heard that the service has become better in the last year or so.
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Digitalplanet run the HPshop website so yeah it's much of a muchness take the free shipping!
 
Wierd. Your link also gives me R1699. Maybe it's a special tax for Cape Town ;)
 
jack1986 said:
Has anybody else put 4 x 2TB drives in the microserver under FreeNAS? I think the answer to that is yes; but how much RAM do you guys have? I've uncovered a weird situation where, when I have four drives in a zpool, one of the drives will lag badly and slow the whole cluster down. Things were improved about threefold when I used the 4k setting on my drives (to writes of about 20MB/s), but as soon as I create a zpool with only three drives, the write speed increases by a factor of about five above that -- about 100MB/s, which is the speed I'm expecting -- and it doesn't appear as if the system is even completely IO-bound at that point. Any fourth drive lags terribly, though.

The only possible difference between my setup and some other posters' is the RAM, as I see it -- I've got 5GB at the moment, which is below the recommended threshold (but above the minimum). Think this is my problem?
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I also have 4x 2tb HDD's, but with 8GB RAM.
 
kayvee said:
I see HP Shop is flogging the MicroServer bundled with WHS_2011 for R1699.00 for those interested in M$.

FOSS FTW however :)


Edit : It's still the "old" 1.3GHz 1GB model.
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Still the 1.3ghz with 1GB RAM, but the min requirements for WHS2011 is 2GB!!!!!! LOL!
 
I see Esquire has the following 2 cards available:

POWERCOLOR PCI-E Radeon AX5450 512MB GDDR3 GO Green Edition
POWERCOLOR PCI-E HD6450 1024MB DDR3

Does anybody have one of the cards in their box or know if they are low profile with HDMI?
 
Freakboy said:
I see Esquire has the following 2 cards available:

POWERCOLOR PCI-E Radeon AX5450 512MB GDDR3 GO Green Edition
POWERCOLOR PCI-E HD6450 1024MB DDR3

Does anybody have one of the cards in their box or know if they are low profile with HDMI?
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I have a PowerColor G210, didn't come with a LP bracket, not sure about those. I am going there on Saturday, can check it out for you.
 
Freakboy said:
I see Esquire has the following 2 cards available:

POWERCOLOR PCI-E Radeon AX5450 512MB GDDR3 GO Green Edition
POWERCOLOR PCI-E HD6450 1024MB DDR3

Does anybody have one of the cards in their box or know if they are low profile with HDMI?
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Esquire also have the Sapphire 64 Bit 2GB HD 6450 for R429 Ex VAT. Just bought two of these. Only one arrived so far though. They have the low profile bracket.

Strangely XBMC does not output digital sound via HDMI - not sure why though.
 
Just received my new Gigabyte G210 from Take2 for R340 including delivery. Very happy with how quick delivery was - ordered it on Sunday afternoon and received it about 10.30am this morning (Tuesday). And as reported, its does come with the LP bracket.
 
So I bought another HP MicroServer for use as an HTPC, but I am having a little trouble getting it working as expected.

The setup is an HD5450, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Windows 7 with XBMC (I tried OpenELEC on a USB with no luck) on a 1Gb wired network. I have downloaded and upgraded the AMD Catalyst drivers (11.9), I have downloaded and upgraded DirectX and I have enabled hardware accelaration in XBMC. I also disabled all the post processing options in the Catalyst Management Console under the Video tab.

In VLC, everything plays fine (1080 @ 20GB .mkv runs smoothly) with CPU usage at most 60% utilization. However, in XBMC, I get a black screen and the cursor begins to jitter (almost as if it slows down). In the menu it runs flawlessly and if I use the arrow keys to skip along the video it skips to the new frame instantly but remains frozen. (Edit: Interestingly, during this playback CPU usage sits at 0-1%)

Has anyone had this problem? Can someone help me configure XBMC (with a working sample configuration)? I really have tried everything I can think of at this point.
 
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yeti said:
So I bought another HP MicroServer for use as an HTPC, but I am having a little trouble getting it working as expected.

The setup is an HD5450, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Windows 7 with XBMC (I tried OpenELEC on a USB with no luck) on a 1Gb wired network. I have downloaded and upgraded the AMD Catalyst drivers (11.9), I have downloaded and upgraded DirectX and I have enabled hardware accelaration in XBMC. I also disabled all the post processing options in the Catalyst Management Console under the Video tab.

In VLC, everything plays fine (1080 @ 20GB .mkv runs smoothly) with CPU usage at most 60% utilization. However, in XBMC, I get a black screen and the cursor begins to jitter (almost as if it slows down). In the menu it runs flawlessly and if I use the arrow keys to skip along the video it skips to the new frame instantly but remains frozen. (Edit: Interestingly, during this playback CPU usage sits at 0-1%)

Has anyone had this problem? Can someone help me configure XBMC (with a working sample configuration)? I really have tried everything I can think of at this point.
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Can you swap the card out for something else? If you can why not get a nVidia card (G210 is perfect for this http://www.takealot.com/electronics...raphics-card-gt210-512mb-64bit-gddr2-,5391559) - I only say this because if you go the nVidia route you are open to the Linux option also as ATI drivers don't always play along nicely with Linux. By getting a ATI card you are limiting yourself to only the Windows option which doesn't seem logical.
 
timvdwest said:
Can you swap the card out for something else? If you can why not get a nVidia card (G210 is perfect for this http://www.takealot.com/electronics...raphics-card-gt210-512mb-64bit-gddr2-,5391559) - I only say this because if you go the nVidia route you are open to the Linux option also as ATI drivers don't always play along nicely with Linux. By getting a ATI card you are limiting yourself to only the Windows option which doesn't seem logical.
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OP is talking about XBMC for Windows I think? :)

So if it's working in VLC, that probably rules out graphics card. More likely down to a Windows/CCC/XBMC setting?

FWIW HD5450 has been confirmed working in Linux for 1080p playback. The guide is pretty far back in this thread now, but I'm sure Google knows. I agree that Nvidia is an easier out the box solution for Linux.
 
yeti said:
So I bought another HP MicroServer for use as an HTPC, but I am having a little trouble getting it working as expected.

The setup is an HD5450, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Windows 7 with XBMC (I tried OpenELEC on a USB with no luck) on a 1Gb wired network. I have downloaded and upgraded the AMD Catalyst drivers (11.9), I have downloaded and upgraded DirectX and I have enabled hardware accelaration in XBMC. I also disabled all the post processing options in the Catalyst Management Console under the Video tab.

In VLC, everything plays fine (1080 @ 20GB .mkv runs smoothly) with CPU usage at most 60% utilization. However, in XBMC, I get a black screen and the cursor begins to jitter (almost as if it slows down). In the menu it runs flawlessly and if I use the arrow keys to skip along the video it skips to the new frame instantly but remains frozen. (Edit: Interestingly, during this playback CPU usage sits at 0-1%)

Has anyone had this problem? Can someone help me configure XBMC (with a working sample configuration)? I really have tried everything I can think of at this point.
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Is "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen" in video settings disabled?
 
yeti said:
I am having a little trouble getting it working as expected.
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Hmm... ok, lets see here now...


yeti said:
HD5450
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why dude?

yeti said:
4GB RAM
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why?!

yeti said:
60GB SSD
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WHY??!

yeti said:
Windows 7 with XBMC
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WHYYYYYY?!!?!


I do not get those system choices yeti... weird combo for an HTPC.
What on earth is 4GB RAM for? Why do you need an SSD, and what the hell are you doing with a mouse?

I could of helped you out with Installing OpenELEC, but since you are using an ATI card, I'm not sure if HDMI Audio Out will work now in any case.




Whats the problem with OpenElec btw, maybe we can still get this working after all. :o
 
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