N40L + Windows 7 + SSD = BSOD

Simmy · 11 Oct 2012 at 13:34

Having supplied 3 of these servers to people, I've had a chance to test all of them each with a different SSD (OCZ Agility 3 x 2 and a Kingston V200). All of them caused blue screens either during installation or at random intervals. Using the supplied 250Gb HDD, there were no blue screens.

My question is, has anyone managed to successfully install Windows 7 onto an SSD in an N40L Microserver? If so, did you do anything special to make it work and what SSD are you using?

Thanks

Simmy · 11 Oct 2012 at 14:07

Are you using a hacked BIOS by any chance?

Simmy · 1 Nov 2012 at 12:11

DiCe! said:
Ive thrown windows 8 on to mine and it solved the issue.

Good to know

Having played with 4 of these servers now, they are either very flakey or I'm doing something very wrong

Simmy · 20 Nov 2012 at 13:59

Anyone referring to this in the future, I managed to solve it with

a) a 5th HP microserver
b) a new firmware for my SSD which had recently been released
c) the hacked BIOS for the N40L - http://www.avforums.com/forums/netw...6l-microserver-updated-ahci-bios-support.html

One of those, or maybe even a combination of the above, has now meant windows 7 runs without any hiccups/BSODs. I hadn't tried the BIOS mod before this server but I suspect the SSD firmware had the biggest part to play.