Re: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
My 8200 Elte CMT has legacy mode enabled and I boot from the EFI USB flash drive. I have installed W10 and W11 on the 8200 Elite with a Rufus-made flash drive with the GPT partition scheme from the USB...
View ArticleHP 290 G1 microtower pc powers on but shows no display and the power button...
Hi everyone,I have an HP 290 G1 that stopped working properly. Before the problem started, it became very slow and eventually got stuck on the HP logo. Now it won't boot or display anything not even...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
DGroves - Please stop placing temptation in my path! That Lenovo sounds awesome and looks gorgeous.I don't think I would ever allow my budget to stretch to that but I will no doubt have one on my...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
Which machine do you have Paul?On the Z420, you need to have Legacy Support Enabled, Fast Boot Disabled and ensure Mass Storage Option ROM is set to EFI for sure. I have AHCI selected for sata mode...
View ArticleRe: Cant find a 6pin to 8pin adapter
Saw your new question. Should not be an issue. You said you've read up on all this... are you aware of the higher than ATX standards amperage these and the HP 6-wire cables are rated for? That has been...
View ArticleRe: Cant find a 6pin to 8pin adapter
DGroves has mentioned this in the past... there are some sellers who put up the official HP part numbers and then send a homemade version of the real HP ones. What he provides you is two links to the...
View ArticleRe: Cant find a 6pin to 8pin adapter
Thank you! Do you know if I’ll have any issues using two 6-pin to 8-pin adapters, one for each power connector on my RTX 3070?
View ArticleRe: Cant find a 6pin to 8pin adapter
they are found on ali-express and USA eBay or Amazon sites many USA sellers will ship out of country contact a seller to see what is available...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
Paul, Fully agree. My prior reference to a download from Softpedia had only to do with obtaining the final Intel firmware update for Intel DC (Data Center) NVMe-boot-capable add-in-cards that include...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
I'm glad to know that installing W7 in UEFI worked for you. I saw the file contents regarding the winload.efi, so I don't know why the Rufus-created media didn't work because I use that method on every...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
Quick reply as it’s late here and I haven’t got my reading glasses on. Thanks both. For continued assistance. Well instead of watching any YouTube videos about setting ISO up using Rufus I just...
View ArticleCant find a 6pin to 8pin adapter
Hello, i have a Z640 Workstation and I want to upgrade to a RTX 3070, i have read a lot about the 6pin to 8pin HP power supply adapter the problem is, i live in Brazil and i cant find it anywhere, even...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
You're very welcome. I was just going to report to you that I was successful making a USB installation flash drive with that ISO file with Rufus, but only by selecting the MBR partition scheme. When I...
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yes most generic HP win 7 disks will install and activate on a z420 i've done so on several z820 systems as the offical HP win 7 downgrade disk for these workstaions was a generic win 7 pro install...
View ArticleRe: Need advice on Windows 7 Licencing on Z420 please!
That worked a treat Paul.Many thanks. Brilliantly quick install and I don't think I've ever seen drivers install so fast. Used SP68644.exe.I am au-fait with Rufus but thanks for link. My version was...
View ArticleRe: Can an HP OEM Quadro RTX 3000 M13729-001 be installed in a Z240 SFF?
i own a z240 in both tower and sff moodels and have swapped out the stock xeon cpu for intels low power "S" series and reconfigured the SFF system to only use two sticks of ram no optical drive and a...
View ArticleRe: update tpm 1.2 to 2.0
@Bisnell, Welcome to our HP Community forum! In order to assist you, it would be imperative to know what PC you are referring to. Here is an HP link with PCs which are eligible for the TPM firmware 1.2...
View ArticleRe: Can an HP OEM Quadro RTX 3000 M13729-001 be installed in a Z240 SFF?
Hi @Hyacinto Welcome to the HP Support Community! We're here to help you get back up and running. Thank you for providing the exact HP spare number and connector details. The card may fit the PCIe...
View ArticleRe: Anyone used "Fan Control" (Freeware) on HP hardware?
The question about FanControl was not that I wanted to silence the fans. It was the opposite: Finding and lowering the temperature threshold at which the fans would rev up thereby adding an extra...
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