Hi everyone, I am running into a problem on boot with my HP Z620.
When I have hard drives larger than 4TB installed I cannot get beyond the HP logo screen, ie the system will not POST. Hitting F9 or F10 will show the messages "entering boot menu" or "entering setup" respectively but I cannot go beyond this.
If the drives are installed once I have reached the boot menu or hot-swapped once I am in the OS everything is functional. All of my data is there and a SMART test returns no problems. I have had no issues with any of my other HDDs or SSDs (all <4TB) in various formats - ExFAT, NTFS, HFS+ ...
This issue also only arises when the drives are formatted. When they are uninitialised I am able to get to the boot menu/BIOS with no problem. The BIOS also is able to recognise that they are connected and have a certain size. I have tried plugging the drives into every SATA port on the motherboard with the same problem.
Has anybody else come across this issue?
Is there a maximum HDD or Volume size that the BIOS can handle?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Augustin
Specs
HP Z620, boot block 2011
CPU - 2x Xeon e5-2690
RAM - 8x 4GB PC3 12800R
BIOS rev 3.92 (most current as of writing)
Running Windows 10n and OSX 10.12.6 (probably not important as problem arises before reaching either OS)