HP Proliant N40L Microserver never been able to play 1080p

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chopperdave

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Ever since I've had my HP Proliant N40L Microserver I've never been able to run 1080p or even 720p video files, and I know this is abnormal as the internet is littered with people saying this machine is perfectly capable of playing 1080p footage.

So this is long time coming but I've finally ruled out most of the hardware in the microserver. I've change the graphics card from a geforce 210 to a radeon 5450, changed the stock 2gb ram for 2x4gb sticks and performed a clean install twice and I am now finally at a dead end. I feel I've tried everything and have no other ideas what to do.

HP Proliant N40L
radeon 5450
2gb ram

Running 1920 x 1038, h264, hi10, fps: 13-9

Running 1280x544, h264, fps: 24-21

With 8gb of ram in it, it runs the 1920 file at around 20 fps but still stutters terribly.

If anyone could point me in the right direction over this one I would be very grateful.

Thanks a lot

Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention I am running the microserver as a htp with windows 7 installed
 
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Alec Mowat

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Ok hold on

Are you actually logging into the server and opening the files?

It's not a desktop, it's a fileshare server. It's not designed to run media, it probably cannot decode the file with the low end processor.

You are supposed to host a local file share on here, and not much else. People are probably referring to streaming the video off the server, not trying to use the server as a desktop.
 
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Alec Mowat

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You are running Windows 7 on the server?

Or are you just hosting files in Apache?
 
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chopperdave

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Running windows 7 on it.
 
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Alec Mowat

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No, it's not powerful enough to run Windows 7. It's basically using a mobile processor.

The processor is 1/4 the speed of an i3, I have no idea what type of hard drives you are using.

http://cpuboss.com/cpu/AMD-Turion-II-Neo-N54L

You should basically install Linux on there and use it as a backup drive or a data storage drive.

It's basically a NAS, it's not a workstation. I would install Server 2003 or a light Linux distro, like Mint or Puppy and use it as a file share. You could maybe get away with Windows XP.
 
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