Forum member “festiva” has posted about his experience setting up a touchscreen display to work with his MediaSmart Server LX195. The display is mounted on the wall near outside the closet that houses the LX195. Here is festiva’s description of the project.
I have successfully installed a Lilliput 7″ touchscreen monitor directly to my LX195. I [...]
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Forum member “cavediver” has been busy working on his DIY Home Server (aka Andromeda) and he’s recently shared with us his latest modification. He developed a new fan board for his Norco RPC-4220 case that accommodates 3 x 120mm fans instead of the stock 4 x 80mm fans, with the end result being a significant [...]
Forum member “cakalapati” makes and sells the MediaSmart Server VGA/PS2/Serial debug cables (that also work on the Acer easyStore). Now he’s working on an idea for a new hardware modification for Home Servers, and he wants your input on how to make it meet your needs.
More and more people are building their own WHS servers [...]
The MediaSmart Server is generally recognized as being quite reliable, with only occasional reports of hardware failures being reported in the forums. Of these few reported cases, the most common failure I’ve seen mentioned in the forums has been the power supply. Unfortunately this power supply is not an easily user replaceable part, with [...]
There is no denying that the MediaSmart Server is one attractive piece of home computer equipment. Some people love the hardware, but would rather run another operating system besides Windows Home Server. We’ve seen a few users install Server 2003, a few more have tried Server 2008, but the largest and most active group have [...]
Forum moderator Nigel “Cougar” Wilks has been hard at work getting all the steps ironed out for installing the 2.5 Software Update installed and running on the EX470 and EX475 MediaSmart Server, and I’ve been helping out when I can. This has been made more complicated by HP pulling the original 26972 release, but fortunately [...]
If you’ve seen the MediaSmart Server in retail stores, you’ve likely seen the demo units that are created to show off the sleek form factor and soothing blue glow of the server. These demo units are stripped down to pretty much just a shell with a power supply and LEDs. The motherboard is in the [...]
Forum member Charles “cakalapati” has been selling his debug cables for the MediaSmart Server for 11 months with many satisfied customers. These cables connect to the onboard debug connector of the MediaSmart Server motherboard and allow VGA, PS2, and serial connectivity for troubleshooting problems with the home server.
Today Charles has announced the 2nd generation [...]
Forum member Jacmay recently shared his new modification with us, which is a stainless steel base mounted to the bottom of the MediaSmart Server and includes several debug port connectors. The connectors work with the debug cables provided by forum member cakalapati. Jacmay describes wanting to avoid cutting any holes in the case of his [...]
