Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

moss · 26 Jul 2012 at 19:54

steinooo said:
surely someone's got Win 2008 R2 installed on their Microserver?!

I managed to install it from USB without any problems.

HarryPainful · 26 Jul 2012 at 19:55

Installed via USB on mine as well...

steinooo · 26 Jul 2012 at 20:01

Oh. did you have any extra ram or hard disks?

HarryPainful · 26 Jul 2012 at 20:08

240GB SSD, 4x 2TB disks, 8GB ram and an ATI video card.

Went on in mins.

steinooo · 26 Jul 2012 at 20:10

wth is wrong with mine :-/ how did you create the USB stick? using the MS tool ? Diskpart?

HarryPainful · 26 Jul 2012 at 20:14

Windows 7 USB DVD tool or whatever it's called.

moss · 26 Jul 2012 at 20:22

I used YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator.

steinooo · 26 Jul 2012 at 21:28

used Win 7 tool and it went on OK but did complain about something about the boot part of the usb disk at the end. I may try "YUMI" then moss, cheers.

ilovetechno · 28 Jul 2012 at 01:01

steinooo said:
wth is wrong with mine :-/ how did you create the USB stick? using the MS tool ? Diskpart?

Format usb stick to fat32 copy all files from win 2008 r2 disc into usb.

steinooo · 28 Jul 2012 at 09:29

Do you think it may be because I'm trying to create the USB boot stick from 32 bit windows 7 instead of 64 bit?

steinooo · 28 Jul 2012 at 18:23

moss said:
I managed to install it from USB without any problems.

HarryPainful said:
Installed via USB on mine as well...

Did you guys have the standard BIOS?

I tried with 2008 x86 earlier and it went on fine, it's just R2 it has a problem with :'/

HarryPainful · 28 Jul 2012 at 20:03

I have the hacked BIOS to allow AHCI on the ODD SATA port.

I'm using that with an SSD to boot off, the 4 bays at the front are data drives in mine.

If I were you I get a different 2008R2 ISO and try that.

steinooo · 28 Jul 2012 at 20:20

HarryPainful said:
I have the hacked BIOS to allow AHCI on the ODD SATA port.

I'm using that with an SSD to boot off, the 4 bays at the front are data drives in mine.

If I were you I get a different 2008R2 ISO and try that.

Thanks for the response, I have been at this for a week now, including all day today!

I thought about this but I don't want to fall foul of licenses etc. Any idea if I'd be alright to type in my license code if I use another image?

On this topic then - do you know of anywhere legit I can get hold of another similar ISO? If you don't feel OK to discuss that please feel free to e-mail my trust. My current ISO has Standard, Datacentre and Enterprise versions all on it. If I can try another ISO I am up for it - I am on a mission to get this working!

Regarding your hacked BIOS, does that give you any extra AHCI options in the bios?

DIABLO · 28 Jul 2012 at 20:27

The license code is'nt tied to a particular copy of windows. Is'nt WS2008 R2 64bit only thus not compatible with the Homeserver?

steinooo · 28 Jul 2012 at 21:14

DIABLO said:
The license code is'nt tied to a particular copy of windows. Is'nt WS2008 R2 64bit only thus not compatible with the Homeserver?

It is 64 bit yes, but I don't see why a 64 bit OS wouldn't be compatible with the homeserver, do you have some knowledge to the contrary?

HarryPainful · 29 Jul 2012 at 13:41

steinooo said:
Thanks for the response, I have been at this for a week now, including all day today!

I thought about this but I don't want to fall foul of licenses etc. Any idea if I'd be alright to type in my license code if I use another image?

On this topic then - do you know of anywhere legit I can get hold of another similar ISO? If you don't feel OK to discuss that please feel free to e-mail my trust. My current ISO has Standard, Datacentre and Enterprise versions all on it. If I can try another ISO I am up for it - I am on a mission to get this working!

Regarding your hacked BIOS, does that give you any extra AHCI options in the bios?

Get it from here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd459137.aspx

And 2008 R2 works just fine on the Microserver.

steinooo · 29 Jul 2012 at 13:53

thanks, I'll download from the horses mouth after a few games of CoD!

P.S is your ram ECC, non-ECC or a mix?

DIABLO · 29 Jul 2012 at 14:32

steinooo said:
It is 64 bit yes, but I don't see why a 64 bit OS wouldn't be compatible with the homeserver, do you have some knowledge to the contrary?

Ahh sorry you are right.

steinooo · 29 Jul 2012 at 15:30

HarryPainful said:
Get it from here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd459137.aspx

And 2008 R2 works just fine on the Microserver.

YOU SIR, are a hero!!!!

thanks for the tip loads, I got past the swirly graphic and it's now installing! So so pleased!

HarryPainful · 29 Jul 2012 at 16:34

No worries, glad you got it sorted out