From the FWIW dept: I recently installed WHS 2011 on HP MicroServer N36L hardware at a site. Customer wants to use it to display rotating family photos on an attached monitor. Two things were required:
- Finding screen saver software to use
- Installing the right graphics driver
SCREEN SAVER
The screen saver software was easy to resolve. I downloaded and installed the free version of gPhotoShow. It runs on WHSv1 (Windows server 2003), and WHS2011 (Windows Server 2008R2). I like it because you can have it randomize the photos to be displayed, and other tweaks.
GRAPHICS DRIVER
The graphics driver was a bit more work. By default, installing WHS 2011 uses the standard VGA graphics driver.
If you go to HP’s support site, they direct you to ASPEED’s web site for downloading the graphics driver.
There’s no install file, just the driver (inf) files for each operating system. However, as I could not determine which specific model to install (AST1100, AST1160, etc.), I decided to try a different approach..
I then installed and ran the free HWiNFO64 utility (there is also a HWiNFO32 version as well).
It told me that I had an ATI/AMD Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics. How interesting! What’s nice about the HWiNFO64 utility is that by simply clicking on the graphic card link, it took me right to the AMD site to download the appropriate driver.
