I’m on 20.04. It seems people are having the same issue.
I think it’s the i5 10400.
Try the following and share the results (it should return something for properly installed & configured Intel drivers):
ls /dev/dri | grep renderD
Did you install the graphic drivers?
renderD128
To clarify, it just does not work with hdr content. I get hardware transcoding with 4k sdr.
I can not understand the choices plex makes with audio transcoding…
So, I committed a foul on the cardinal rule of PC building. I popped all the hardware together, buttoned up the case and fired up the machine. Beeps. Son of a …
So, i opened the case, pulled out the DVD and HD cage, fired it up. Beeps.
Ok. I pulled out one of the new ram sticks. Same result.
Replaced the other stick with the one i pulled out. No bueno.
Finally, pulled both sticks, popped in the 4GB and it fired right up. Guh. Problem with the new RAM.
So, the way i figure it theres at least 1 of 3 things wrong:
Bought the wrong RAM
RAM was bad to begin with or
I destroyed the RAM somehow in taking off the heatspreader
So, I’m wondering if someone can help me eliminate at least one of these. Since i took off the heat spreaders, I cant return the RAM. But I want to make sure i order the correct RAM this go around.
Keep in mind, i know next to nothing about RAM. The RAM that came with the machine (that works) is this:
I want to upgrade to 2x8GB.
This is what I originally purchased (and doesnt work):
Thoughts?
Just got my S01-pf1013w in yesterday in awesome condition at a good price 
500GB NVMe & RAM get in today, then a quick trip down to MicroCenter to get some more thermal paste and stuff for another server I have and I’ll be off to the races. What have people ended up doing with the 1TB WD Blue drive and CD-ROM that came with the machine? I’ve just removed them both but am thinking of putting that WD HDD back in and using it as a local backup for the plex metadata/config and just leaving the CD-ROM in there but unplugged so there’s not a gaping hole in the front
Depends on use? Dvd may have benefit if you want to rip and send to nas.
1tb can be local backup, I took it out of both my 290’s to save heat/energy
I’d only put them in if or when you need them. I’ve even taken out Wi-Fi cards before if I didn’t need them. I only keep the equipment in it that is needed to get the job done since it’s running all the time.
I just had a similar issue. I had a 16gb ram module (a-tech ddr4 2666) waiting for when I received the hp. I installed it along with the nvme (removed the windows drive) and installed ubuntu for the first boot. I had plex up and running for 2 weeks until last night. I shut it down to move the hp to a ups and when I tried to boot, nothing. I even tried using the windows hdd, figuring I broke ubuntu, still nothing.
I eventually pulled the new ram and everything worked as it had.
Does ram go bad?
Should I not have mixed the 4gb samsung with the 16gb a-tech?
Why is there so much ram with led lights for sale??
I ended up just buying a couple of new sticks of A-Tech 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2666 MHz UDIMM PC4-21300 (PC4-2666V) CL19 DIMM Non-ECC Desktop RAM Memory Modules and they work just fine!
This option is a little cheaper:
This option is the same price, but single stick (more dense):
Those are not equivalent sticks of memory. One set is meant to run at 1.2V and the other is meant to run at 1.35V.
I just got my second S01 yesterday, and once again I spent hours attempting to update the bios to the latest. This time I used the hard drive that was already installed to access the HP Assistant software. Except, it refuses to update the bios to the September 2021 release F40. I’m stuck on March 2021 release F21. I can’t figure out how to manually update, HP assistant doesn’t offer anything, and the downloads from the website claim that the bios package is out of date. Sooooo. ya… this is why I’ve always avoided HP in the past… these little machines are just too cheap to pass on though. For unknown reasons I was able to get HP Assistant to update my first machine to F30 bios.
It doesn’t matter.
I’ve always updated the bios on a machine to the latest when I first start working with it. Maybe it’s not necessary, but it is an old habit that has served me well.
Though I’ve already put the machine to its task, I’m still weirded out by the fact that the bios on this machine, F21, is not available or listed anywhere on the HP site. The HP site only lists F20, F30 and F40.
I’ll say again what I said previously: these are nice-enough, cheap machines but I’ve never had this much trouble updating a bios. HP is the pits.
Got myself one of these from Amazon. Wasn’t the best deal compared to what’s here but it was in stock. 139 shipped.
Plan on using it for Opensense.
The hard drive was a Toshiba 1TB. Came with a keyboard and mouse which was a surprise.
At first I wasn’t terribly impressed with the power numbers but after some tweaking its really good.
This was the fresh install. Windows and apps kept doing their thing. It basically bounced between 10 and 25w. 25 seems to be about the max. Its also dead slow with that old spinner in it.
I removed the DVD drive and WiFi chip and replaced the drive with an old Corsair Force 120 SSD and did a fresh windows 10 install. Its still bouncing around but its pretty stable idle between 7 and 10 watts. (Up until 12:50) I then ran updates to the drivers, removed the mouse, keyboard and HDMI cable it came in around 3-4w which is pretty impressive. There was a lot of missing drivers so I assume getting the correct ones allowed better power savings.
Then around 13:40 it went into standby mode. Thats about 1.5w. I’ll never be in that state I just forgot to disable it for my windows test.
Better view of the idle power when there is no DVD, no wifi, no keyboard/mouse or HDMI with an SSD Basically basebones.
Standby power.
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Also should note that it was basically brand new. The hard drive said something like 20 hours of power on time. Still has 6 months of warranty left.
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Contra to the initial review, the front USB ports are USB 3.0 - 5 Gbps per HP Slim S01-pF1048xt Desktop PC| HP® Official Store. - but the back USB ports are not; they’re USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports. I only noticed this after a ZFS scrub was in progress on a drive plugged into the back and the estimated time to finish was >3 days.
The rest of the review was spot-on & thanks for providing a place to discuss using this box!
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I just put a 10400T, 35 watt processor into one of these machines, and it appears to be running well. I’m not positive if its boosting to its max possible speed, but its at least noticeably faster than the G5905 it replaced. This processor is not on the hardware compatibility list.
I also have plans to replace the 50mm fan in the power supply with one of these. I’m going to have to snip some wires and solder the new fan on. No big deal.
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So, I spoke too soon. I had been having issues with this machine. Everytime it booted past the grub menu, the video scrambled. No matter the distro (even Windows), when I booted past the original bootloader, the video failed. I tried a new cpu, a new gpu, nothing seemed to work. Then, I remembered that I had replaced the RAM in this. I put the original RAM back in and voila, it works beautifully!
I still want to put more RAM in this box, but I’ve tried 2 different sets of RAM sticks and have failed both times. Can someone tell me, if I want to put 16GB of RAM in this box, what should I look for? The last set I tried matching the stats of the original stick and I have found it didn’t work. Any help would be amazing!