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z400 upgrade help
hi i have an old z400 that was literally given to me for free. I want to upgrade it but I don't know if the parts i want would be compatible. After looking around I found out that only certain psu's,...
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The search box to the upper left targets this forum only.... start with using that, but it will get you a lot of information. A pretty efficient way to see state of the art for this workstation is to...
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this is probably really dumb but how do i upgrade my bios? now i've been thinking of getting an rx 480, but the question remains: would i need a new psu?and im guessing the boot block date from bios...
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You've got to be willing to learn how to do these things..... this may be something you want to farm out to one of your friends who is computer-experienced. There are layers upon layers to learn and it...
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Re: Z400 Aftermarket Upgrades
Today I had time to add in one of the HP Texas Instruments USB 3.0 cards into my Z400, using the Akasa 3.5" form factor front USB 3.0 front ports interface that plugs into the card, and also a Molex...
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I uh, I think I got on the bios. I pressed F10 when i started up my pc and it came up with a blue 1900s graphics menu. after looking through them I went under advanced and found what could be the...
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i got it. i downloaded the bios from w7 which came out in april 2016.butnothing really changed. the setup utility (<- i figured out its name. it was at the top) still looks 1900s.the only thing that...
View ArticleRe: Windows 7 does not recognize any hard drives, but the DPS self test runs
Did the 1TB drive previously have a boot/system partition on it? If so, the BIOS boot order might have been trying to boot any system previously installed on the 1TB drive and that is why it wouldn't...
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Auqa, The z400 uses the excellent LGA1366 Xeons and while the original specifications don’t list them, there are results on Passmark for 4-core W3500 and 6-core W3600 6-core plus X5600 series 4 and...
View ArticleIs Unbuffered ECC RAM Reducing CPU Performance in a z620?
Friends of 0 and 1,I probably have made a silly mistake.In upgrading a z620 that arrived with one CPU and DDR3 1600 ECC unbuffered RAM, I added 4X 8GB of DDR3 1600 unbuffered RAM for a total of 40GB....
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thank you so much.i found the x5677 in an online store at my country (aus) and i'll probably be getting that very soon. i dont really understand the passmark scores so what is the x5677's i3/i5/i7...
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For the memory you want all 6 slots to be filled with the same memory. So, for 12GB total you'd want 6 x 2GB sticks. The next step up would be 6 x 4GB for 24GB total. Don't rush on that.... I'll get...
View Article8300 Elite won't boot from USB flash drive
Elite 8300 SFF PC. I prepared a bootable USB flash drive but cannot get the Boot Menu or Boot Order configuration in BIOS to see the drive. Exactly the same as in this other unresolved thread: USB...
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ah ok that makes senseit takes some time to ship depending on the product and the shipping costs a bit but i can managethanks again XD
View ArticleRe: Devicemanager 4.7 SP3 and SP4 break thinclient HPDM agents
Hi Frank, HPDM will not use the system library, we made a copy in the same folder as those agent files - you should be able to find the library under c:\windows\xpeagent. So ideally it shouldn't be...
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Auqa, CPU: The Xeon X5677 should give good results over a wide range of uses. We have three systems in the office using Core2 CPU's with single-thread rating under 1300 and with a good GPU, these are...
View ArticleSlow network speed
Hello team, i have a number of Hp compaq pcs (600, 6300, 6200, 6000) with windows 7 (32 and 64 bit). I have problems with network speed. When i troubleshoot the problem I always find a pc that is...
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Figuring out the memory used in HP workstations takes some patience but there are patterns. Below is information for your Version 2 Z400 (6 rather than 4 memory slots, and the later boot block date in...
View ArticleHP Z840 bios v2.23 - need help verifying virtualization option in bios
I have a Z840 with E5-2620V3 processor in it, which is fully capable of virtualization. However there is no option in the bios for turning it on. I've upgraded to the lastest bios, 2.23, and am...
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Re: HP Z840 bios v2.21 - need help verifying virtualization option in bios
I don´t know if it will help you, but the latest BIOS is v2.23.
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