What a day.
I bought an HP MICROSERVER G7 N54L on eBay, 12/13 years old but still in
its unopened box with the massive bag of silica get they came with. AMD
2.2 GHz CPU and a whole 2 GB RAM. I put Linux Mint xfce 64bit on it (250
GB spinner) and it ran (that's exaggerating a lot) fine.
Put in 16 GB PC3 RAM and re-booted and it was recognised OK, spec says 8
GB max but it seems to depend on the RAM. Had a play and re-installed to
an SSD and it's not a bad little machine.
It needs a BIOS update - SP64420.exe. I managed to find it after what
seemed like forever Googling (HP don't make it available). It includes a utility to make a bootable Thumbdrive but even though I've tried to do so
on a couple of machines it gets so far then says the Thumbdrive is write protected (it isn't).
I then thought I'll make a DOS Thumbrive (using FreeDOS) and copy over the files it needs. This worked to the extent I got a bootablle Thumbdrive and
it booted from it but using Rufus and the FreeDOS image I ended up with a full Thumbdrive so no room for he needed files.
Anybody tried this or got any ideas? If I can create a DOS bootable Thumbdrive and copy the files over I could be in business but when I was using DOS there was no such thing as a Thumbdrive.
I then thought I'll make a DOS Thumbrive (using FreeDOS) and copy over the >files it needs. This worked to the extent I got a bootablle Thumbdrive and
it booted from it but using Rufus and the FreeDOS image I ended up with a >full Thumbdrive so no room for he needed files.
Anybody tried this or got any ideas? If I can create a DOS bootable >Thumbdrive and copy the files over I could be in business but when I was >using DOS there was no such thing as a Thumbdrive.
It needs a BIOS update - SP64420.exe. I managed to find it after what
seemed like forever Googling (HP don't make it available).
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