Z800 onboard NIC's dont work
Neither of the 2 onboard NICs seem to work.. they are coloured ornage on the backplate, and one is labelled ASF which I know is to do with remote management. However, from what I have read, the other...
View ArticleRe: Z420 HP liquid cooling solution
Mtothaj, Fan/heatsinks are quite efficient and in my experience with the five office HP's since 2009, used for 3D modeling and rendering, there has never been a thermal problem, except temporaily...
View ArticleNew NVIDIA Pascal workstation GPU > Quadro P4000
Mates,For those shopping for a powerful workstation card, the Pascal-based Quadros- P5000 (16GB)($2,500) and P6000 (24GB, $5,000) GPUs will shortly be joined by the P4000 (8GB). This appears to be an...
View ArticleRe: z800 memory missing
To be honest I really don't recall, I am going to have to look back and see if I can find out what I did. We have several dead Z800s that are out of warranty. I think it is a motherboard issue with...
View ArticleRe: Z800 onboard NIC's dont work
Go into BIOS and check the security settings for devices. In the past I have needed to turn off the on board network interface chipset due to some conflicts when I was using a wireless add-on PCI...
View ArticleRe: Connecting 4x 2.5 SAS drives?
MrM3kon, SAS does certainly offer a way to use a lot of disks and the z800 does have an integrated SAS /SATA controller. There are RAID controllers that can daisy chain 125 drives. With the SAS/SATA...
View ArticleRe: HP Z620 USB 3 Front and Back not working after Win 10
I just loaded a fresh windows 7 64bit and it doesn't detect the usb 3 at all either.
View ArticleRe: HP Z620 USB 3 Front and Back not working after Win 10
Well, that is strange. Sounding more and more like a motherboard chipset has failed. If you have USB2 still working it may not be worth a new motherboard. If still under warranty then contact HP....
View ArticleZ420: Installing 2.5" SSD's in the optical bay carry handle
This might seem a real amateur night question but I am having a hard time installing an 2.5" SSD in the OEM HP optical bay carry handle which is in the top bay of my machine. In theory this is simple -...
View ArticleRe: Z420 HP liquid cooling solution
BambiBoomZ wrote:Mtothaj, Fan/heatsinks are quite efficient and in my experience with the five office HP's since 2009, used for 3D modeling and rendering, there has never been a thermal problem, except...
View ArticleRe: Z800 onboard NIC's dont work
Spot on! I checked everywhere I thought of in bios and didn't think for one minute it would be something in security!Cheers
View ArticleRe: Connecting 4x 2.5 SAS drives?
Thanks for that comprehensive reply!One thing that does puzzle me, is why 8 sas ports if only 5 disks can be connected?May take a punt on the icydock... It takes power directly then I can just attach...
View ArticleHp Z800 Continous 1 second beeps - not powering up
Hi. I was very excited to buy one of these at an auction. With a Quatro 6000 card.BUT! When I plugged it in it continously beeps at 1 second intervals The Power supply is part number 480794-002...
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Re: Z420: Installing 2.5" SSD's in the optical bay carry handle
Below is a pic of the top handle/2.5" form factor drives 5.25" option made for the highest of the 3 possible optical drive bays in the Z420. That is made to slide forward to come out, not inwards....
View ArticleRe: Change master in a HPDM master/slave setup
I assume that the Master Server and Child Servers are DM Repositories. So the question turns to be: how to retire the original Master Repository Controller and make one of the Child Repository as...
View ArticleRe: Connecting 4x 2.5 SAS drives?
MrM3kon, The limitations of the number of SAS drives is related to the particular controller. The LSI 9260-8i can connect up to 128 SAS devices, having 8 ports, but the the onboard z800 controller...
View ArticleHP Z800 Workstaion Power Supply
Just received the Workstation from USA ( 110 vac 50hz ), here we are using 230 vac 60hz, my question is ;is there any power selection to be switched or can i just simply plug in to 230vac ??Thanks
View ArticleRe: Z800 Upgrade for 2015
Next I bought this https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDACL6G.S/Since my investment was substancial at this point with no joy I didn't purchase the recommended Samsung SSD but used a Kingston 90GB...
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