Hello team,

We currently own several HP T530 Thin Clients. Since our requirements increased, we would like to upgrade the M.2 SSD. Our SSD option is the Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA M.2 

We upgraded each unit according to the official "Hardware Reference Guide" document ( http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05951129 ). 

Unfortunately, when we turn on the units it keeps showing the HP logo and nothing happens. We cannot go into the BIOS setup (ESC), we cannot boot from a different boot device. The power led is green, there are no BIOS beeps or sounds, just the blue HP logo. Keyboard does not seem to respond. Each unit is running the latest BIOS 1.07 .

Kindly advise what to do.

Thank you,

Iosif

Tell me please. Where in Bios to disconnect / connect USB devices. HP does not see my card reader. 

He has already done everything possible, could not. My English is bad, maybe something is wrong in the BIOS.

 Maybe there is a video instruction on how to do this. I will be glad to any help.

 Thank . Sincerely, Alexander Bolotin.

Gentlemen,

I am using an old Z420 workstation as my home network file server (NAS) running the UNRAID solution.

UnRaid is a Linux based solution which only boots up from a USB flash drive.

I've updated my BIOS workstation to the last version (3.95A) and have been trying all possible bios settings regarding boot and USB ... But up to now I was UNABLE to make it boot from the flash drive attached to the rear of workstation (yes I have tried different ones as well including at the front) without a manual keystroke.

When I leave the system to boot by itself (as it should be) it always ends up on a completely empty screen with nothing else than cursor blinking. (no error messages or anything else)

In order to make it work I have to press F9 (Boot menu) during POST and then point the flash drive... and then it works perfectly. 

I have tried everything I could've think of... Including setting up Unraid to boot as UEFI or Legacy and apparently it does not make any difference.      So far I could not figure this out.

What can I possibly doing wrong here ?   Any ideas?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

After trying every lead on the internet, I found a video of a youtuber stating business class desktops and laptops cannot have their bios passwords reset conventionally and would need a special file from HP to put on a legacy type usb drive to flash. Is this correct? If so can anyone help me get a file for my system? I purchased 3 HP Compaq 6000 pro AIO units from a liquidation and found that the bios has been locked. They came with no hard drive or ram and I had to purchased those separatley... now I have to get these to work or I will be in a bigger hole.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

i have a HP z240 running Ubuntu 18.10

flashed the newest BIOS before Installation (01.76 Rev.A)

Now i want to activate Intel ME (enable AMT in F10 Bios Setup), but all i get at Boot is

"Boot up problem: 'Soft Temporary Disable. To Enable ME, check Active Management (AMT) option in F10 Setup"

when i press CTRL-P at boot nothing happened.

I have reset the BIOS to default Settings, cleared it with the "Clear Button" - nothing changed

I have read on the support Page that there is a known Problem with older Intel ME Firmware like

"Version:11.8.60.3561 Rev.A

- Resolves an issue with Intel ME becoming non-functional after a FW update.
- Resolves AMT provisioning issues."

So i try to flash a new Firmware, but that is not possible, because Firmware flashing needs running Intel ME ..

Tried to Downgrade the BIOS to (1.67 Rev.A)  does not change the situation - unable to flash and unable to activate

so i think i need your help, thanks

does anybody know the part number for a SLI bridge for the HP Z820 with quadro 5000 thanks 

I'm looking at the HP Elite Slice to use for a Teams conference room and it's an interesting bit of kit that would make conference room usage easier. While it's good for those just wanting to make a call i'm wondering how I can get the ability to view/share content from other sources while in a call. Thinking for example someone wanting to demo a piece of software. Is it possible to connect a desktop to the slice and if needed have a user log on to that and then share content from that via the Teams call taking place on the slice?

Hello,

I've got a weird behaviour here with a 8300 Elite after I updated the Bios from very old V2.57 via V2.99 to the recent V3.08: It no longer starts from DVD or USB.

I tried all settings in question (Legacy on, Quick Boot and Secure Boot off, Boot from removable devices on....)
and even reset the bios with the physical button on the system board.

Windows 7 works fine, but strangely enough since the update the boot animation is completely gone.
During the boot only a short line (a bit longer as a cursor) is displayed.

Has anyone noticed anything similar?

Thank you,
greetings

Martin

Lately I’ve been thinking of a solution to host some of the blogs and projects I have on a dedicated server. My ISP provided me with some static IPs and two connections of 1 GB/s (up / down). Of course, my first love came through my mind: the Z800 workstation, my first love. Because I work a lot in the photo/video industry, I bought another system, custom-made so I cheated on my first love.

She was upset and retreated to her room, in a corner, and covered herself with clothes that I no longer wore and kept to donate to someone.

I thought to myself … what if …?

I left all the projects aside and ran to buy some old clothes from Chanel: 48 GB RAM, two SSDs, a few SAS hard drives, a controller for them and I got the job done. I must admit that I had a moment of nostalgia, a kind of bad opinion about myself mixed with joy. I thought about how long I used this workstation. As I learned to work in Photoshop and Premiere… awesome times.

I should point out that Z800 never had any problems. So I put on the cleaner, wiped the dust, replaced various stuff.

Then I installed Centos with WHM / Cpanel. I removed the graphics card because my old love now has another role in my life and no need to show the world what she is capable of. Now she runs silently and breathes like a newborn. 🙂

Cleaning and updating (48 GB RAM)Getting things ready.Supervisor has no clue...Hmm...

 After bath. 🙂

 However, I have a question. Any idea where from can I buy some USB 3 controllers? 🙂

Note 1: No copyright applied to the images. They have been made using my iPhone.

Note 2: I have posted this content to one of my personal project's page as well.

I just acquired a nice Z820 for a home lab.  Can anyone explain to me what PCIe Performance Mode does?

Hey guys, so I have this desktop "hp 280 g1 mt business pc" and I decided to switch its ram and add an SSD, all was in working order until I tried to move windows from the HDD to the new SSD by fresh windows install.
I made a boot flash drive and went through the process, it all looked good but when I tried to start the pc it shows me the message "No boot disk detected or the disk has failed"with many other none important lines (product warranty, etc).
I tried changing the boot order putting the SSD first, didn't work, tried deleting and repurposing all the drives, even tried forcing the pc to run the SSD first by disabling/disconnecting the hard drive nothing...
I'm really struggling here, this is a friend's pc from work an I really can't let him down...
thanks a bunch!

Hello! I have pc with a motherboard ipiwb-pb with bios 7.14, it worked good with GTX690 but a graphic card has dead? i try to install GTX1060 or later bat it stops at logo with sistem configuration and does nothing more? i cannot even enter bios? how can i solve this problem? Thanks!

After putting in my graphics card my PC won’t turn on and I don’t know what to do I also I went on my bios to turned off secure boot but it still doesn’t turn on my bios version is Hewlett-Packard-packward ko1 v3.04, 10/5/2016

Hi All

Recently updated my SSD to a 1TB.  Did a full system restore I had created with Clonezilla.  During the restore I had to switch the BIOS to see Legacy devices to see the boot USB.  Everything restored great.  Switched BIOS back to Disable Legacy and Enable Secure Boot.  The only issue I have is that now I cannot see my Samsung T5 External SSD and a Seagate 4TB P/N 1K9APV-500 External Drive. 

Prior to the update I was able to see both devices through my powered USB hub.  I can still see my QNAP DAS (configured as JBOD) and all other devices (flash drives, DVD drive, etc...). 

In addition I tried to connect to the USB 3.1 ports and the USB C ports directly.  No luck.

As a test of the devices I am able to connect to my Specter X360 with both devices.  They read and write just fine.  This tells me there is something going on with the Z2 G3.

Have updated all drivers and used the HP Assistant to check for problems.  None reported.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance!

Is the latest bios update released in May 2019 safe? I am currently on 2.29 and want to know if I should upgrade. I got my pc used and it has a weird issue that may be related to the 2.29 bios. It basically powers on the pc after each power loss and the bios is set to stay off after each power failure. I suspect the bios version I have  is the problem, but either way, is the latest bios version safe? 2.29 sucks

Z800 working fine with 4 x 1.5T disks in RAID 5

One disk failed, all probably 10 years old, can't buy 1.5T disks so bought 4 x 2G disks

To my surprise controller formatted them as 6T (5.45T) RAID 5

Workstation is permanently on.

All ok until power cut. System restarted in "verify" status

Since then every time we have a power problem the controller goes into verify mode and takes two days to recover.

I have always understood that Z800 RAID BIOS only allows max of 1.5T disks, hence my surprise at 6T array.

If I reformat the array to 4.5T is this going to solve the problem ?

If I do, what actual number should I enter in the configuration screen ?

thanks

Dear community,

I´m using a 3 year old Z440 workstation running a Xeon E5 1620 v3 quad core CPU for 3D-Design and rendering. The CPU heatsink is the standard HP 749554-001 that came with the system. I´ve got my eyes on a refurbished E5 1680 v3 octa core CPU to bring the workstation up to date, being able to use it for another 2 to 3 years.

The question is, is anybody running the 1680 v3 CPU with the standard heatsink and can recommend it or will I need I need to buy the HP Z Cooler (HP P/N: 781907-001) to keep it from overheating. The HP Z cooler manual says so, but I thought I´d get some advice from all of you :).

And yes, the machine might be continuously  rendering 3D jobs for for 2 to 3 days .

Best regards

Chris

Hi,

I am setting up a Xen server upon a debian Linux on a Z800 workstation.
I have seen previous people giving up on this task.

          https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-PCs-Workstations-and-Point-of-Sale-Systems/Z800-E5620-vt-d-amp-vt-x/td-p/6555598
My question:
      is it possible to get a workaround to make it work (sth on bios or card or whatever prevent execution ) ?
I guess some bios patch from HP should solve it but..

here output from XL dmesg:

----

xxxx@xxxx:~$ sudo xl dmesg
(XEN) parameter "placeholder" unknown!
(XEN) Xen version 4.11.2-pre (Debian 4.11.1+92-g6c33308a8d-2) (pkg-xen-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org) (gcc (Debian 8.3.0-7) 8.3.0) debug=n Mon Jun 24 10:10:11 UTC 2019
(XEN) Bootloader: GRUB 2.02+dfsg1-20
(XEN) Command line: placeholder dom0_mem=8192M,max:8192M iommu=verbose
(XEN) Xen image load base address: 0xda200000
(XEN) Video information:
(XEN) VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16
(XEN) VBE/DDC methods: none; EDID transfer time: 0 seconds
(XEN) EDID info not retrieved because no DDC retrieval method detected
(XEN) Disc information:
(XEN) Found 2 MBR signatures
(XEN) Found 2 EDD information structures
(XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map:
(XEN) 0000000000000000 - 0000000000095800 (usable)
(XEN) 0000000000095800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
(XEN) 0000000000100000 - 00000000dafa5800 (usable)
(XEN) 00000000dafa5800 - 00000000dc000000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f8000000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fed40000 (reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fed45000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
(XEN) 0000000100000000 - 0000000424000000 (usable)
(XEN) ACPI: RSDP 000E9010, 0024 (r2 HPQOEM)
(XEN) ACPI: XSDT DAFB88E8, 006C (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-WKS 20180305 0)
(XEN) ACPI: FACP DAFB8A88, 00F4 (r3 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: DSDT DAFB9457, AB16 (r1 COMPAQ DSDT_PRJ 1 MSFT 100000E)
(XEN) ACPI: FACS DAFB8800, 0040
(XEN) ACPI: APIC DAFB8B7C, 0194 (r1 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: ASF! DAFB8D10, 0063 (r32 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: MCFG DAFB8D73, 003C (r1 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: TCPA DAFB8DAF, 0032 (r1 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: HPET DAFB8F57, 0038 (r1 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: DMAR DAFB8F8F, 01B8 (r1 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: SRAT DAFB915F, 02F8 (r2 HPQOEM TYLSBURG 1 0)
(XEN) ACPI: SSDT DAFC544F, 2244 (r1 INTEL PPM RCM 80000001 INTL 20061109)
(XEN) System RAM: 16367MB (16760040kB)
(XEN) Domain heap initialised DMA width 32 bits
(XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
(XEN) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec10000, GSI 24-47
(XEN) IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 3, version 32, address 0xfec20000, GSI 48-71
(XEN) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 3 I/O APICs
(XEN) [VT-D]Host address width 40
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_DRHD:
(XEN) [VT-D] dmaru->address = df100000
(XEN) [VT-D]drhd->address = df100000 iommu->reg = ffff82c00021d000
(XEN) [VT-D]cap = c90780106f0462 ecap = f02076
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:03.0 start=40 sec=42 sub=42
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:07.0 start=40 sec=60 sub=60
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:09.0 start=40 sec=41 sub=41
(XEN) [VT-D] IOAPIC: 0000:40:13.0
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_DRHD:
(XEN) [VT-D] dmaru->address = fed90000
(XEN) [VT-D]drhd->address = fed90000 iommu->reg = ffff82c00021f000
(XEN) [VT-D]cap = c90780106f0462 ecap = f02076
(XEN) [VT-D] IOAPIC: 0000:00:1f.7
(XEN) [VT-D] IOAPIC: 0000:00:13.0
(XEN) [VT-D] flags: INCLUDE_ALL
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1d.7
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1a.7
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1d.0
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1d.1
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1d.2
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1a.0
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1a.1
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_RMRR:
(XEN) [VT-D] endpoint: 0000:00:1a.2
(XEN) [VT-D]found ACPI_DMAR_ATSR:
(XEN) [VT-D] atsru->all_ports: 0
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:00:01.0 start=0 sec=3 sub=3
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:00:03.0 start=0 sec=f sub=f
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:00:07.0 start=0 sec=28 sub=28
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:03.0 start=40 sec=42 sub=42
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:07.0 start=40 sec=60 sub=60
(XEN) [VT-D] bridge: 0000:40:09.0 start=40 sec=41 sub=41
(XEN) Speculative mitigation facilities:
(XEN) Hardware features: IBRS/IBPB STIBP
(XEN) Compiled-in support: INDIRECT_THUNK SHADOW_PAGING
(XEN) Xen settings: BTI-Thunk RETPOLINE, SPEC_CTRL: IBRS-, Other: IBPB
(XEN) L1TF: believed vulnerable, maxphysaddr L1D 44, CPUID 40, Safe address 10000000000
(XEN) Support for VMs: PV: MSR_SPEC_CTRL RSB EAGER_FPU, HVM: MSR_SPEC_CTRL RSB EAGER_FPU
(XEN) XPTI (64-bit PV only): Dom0 enabled, DomU enabled
(XEN) PV L1TF shadowing: Dom0 disabled, DomU enabled
(XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit)
(XEN) Platform timer is 14.318MHz HPET
(XEN) Detected 2397.668 MHz processor.
(XEN) Initing memory sharing.
(XEN) [VT-D]Disabling IOMMU due to Intel 5500/5520/X58 Chipset errata #47, #53
(XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled
(XEN) Enabled directed EOI with ioapic_ack_old on!
(XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
(XEN) -> Using old ACK method
(XEN) Allocated console ring of 16 KiB.
(XEN) VMX: Supported advanced features:
(XEN) - APIC MMIO access virtualisation
(XEN) - APIC TPR shadow
(XEN) - Extended Page Tables (EPT)
(XEN) - Virtual-Processor Identifiers (VPID)
(XEN) - Virtual NMI
(XEN) - MSR direct-access bitmap
(XEN) - Unrestricted Guest
(XEN) HVM: ASIDs enabled.
(XEN) HVM: VMX enabled
(XEN) HVM: Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) detected
(XEN) HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB
(XEN) Brought up 8 CPUs
(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 840 PIRQs
(XEN) Xen kernel: 64-bit, lsb, compat32
(XEN) Dom0 kernel: 64-bit, PAE, lsb, paddr 0x1000000 -> 0x1f65000
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 0000000416000000->0000000418000000 (2086249 pages to be allocated)
(XEN) Init. ramdisk: 0000000423569000->0000000423fff6de
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Loaded kernel: ffffffff81000000->ffffffff81f65000
(XEN) Init. ramdisk: 0000000000000000->0000000000000000
(XEN) Phys-Mach map: 0000008000000000->0000008001000000
(XEN) Start info: ffffffff81f65000->ffffffff81f654b4
(XEN) Xenstore ring: 0000000000000000->0000000000000000
(XEN) Console ring: 0000000000000000->0000000000000000
(XEN) Page tables: ffffffff81f66000->ffffffff81f79000
(XEN) Boot stack: ffffffff81f79000->ffffffff81f7a000
(XEN) TOTAL: ffffffff80000000->ffffffff82000000
(XEN) ENTRY ADDRESS: ffffffff81d3d180
(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 8 VCPUs
(XEN) Initial low memory virq threshold set at 0x4000 pages.
(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM on 2 nodes using 8 CPUs
(XEN) ..................done.
(XEN) Std. Loglevel: Errors and warnings
(XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings)
(XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console.
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen)
(XEN) Freed 472kB init memory