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... Reference Guide. Customer advisories and product change notifications (PCNs), the HP newsletter, customer advisories, and more ... 4. Workstation QuickSpecs The Product Bulletin contains QuickSpecs for HP Workstations. It includes information about its features including the operating system, power...are also available on http://www.hp.com/go / productbulletin/. QuickSpecs provide an overall specification review of the system. Select the desired product. 3. Product documentation Table 1-3 Product documentation Topic Location HP user documentation, white papers, and...
... Reference Guide. Customer advisories and product change notifications (PCNs), the HP newsletter, customer advisories, and more ... 4. Workstation QuickSpecs The Product Bulletin contains QuickSpecs for HP Workstations. It includes information about its features including the operating system, power...are also available on http://www.hp.com/go / productbulletin/. QuickSpecs provide an overall specification review of the system. Select the desired product. 3. Product documentation Table 1-3 Product documentation Topic Location HP user documentation, white papers, and...
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Figure 2-3 Workstation series front panel examples xw4000 Series xw6000 Series xw8000/xw9000 Series Table 2-1 Front panel component examples* Item Symbol Description 1 Optical drive Item 6 Symbol ... 9 Power button 5 Microphone connector 10 Power on light * Refer to the Service and Technical Reference Guide for your workstation for reference only, and shows examples of different workstation series. Your HP workstation might look different. Front panel components Figure 2-3 is for specific front panel component information. 10 Chapter 2 Setting up the Hardware ENWW
Figure 2-3 Workstation series front panel examples xw4000 Series xw6000 Series xw8000/xw9000 Series Table 2-1 Front panel component examples* Item Symbol Description 1 Optical drive Item 6 Symbol ... 9 Power button 5 Microphone connector 10 Power on light * Refer to the Service and Technical Reference Guide for your workstation for reference only, and shows examples of different workstation series. Your HP workstation might look different. Front panel components Figure 2-3 is for specific front panel component information. 10 Chapter 2 Setting up the Hardware ENWW
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... connector * 17 DMS-59 high density graphics NOTE: Might not be available on all workstations. 9 SVGA Monitor Connector * Refer to assist you in connecting your workstation for specific rear panel component information. NOTE: Might not be available on all connector workstations. Figure 2-5 Additional rear panel component examples xw4000 Series xw6000 Series Item 1 2 3 4 Description Built...
... connector * 17 DMS-59 high density graphics NOTE: Might not be available on all workstations. 9 SVGA Monitor Connector * Refer to assist you in connecting your workstation for specific rear panel component information. NOTE: Might not be available on all connector workstations. Figure 2-5 Additional rear panel component examples xw4000 Series xw6000 Series Item 1 2 3 4 Description Built...
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...operating system by DVD, CD, or USB flash drive, making them easy to access and use for a specific system 26 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting ENWW HP Vision Diagnostics offer these benefits: ● Ability to capture complete system configuration information that can be shared as ... options: quick / complete / custom / interactive / non-interactive ◦ Specific failing memory DIMM identification ◦ Tests video card memory ◦ Launches DST Smart tests for HP Desktop and Workstation systems. These tools let you view information about the hardware configuration and perform hardware...
...operating system by DVD, CD, or USB flash drive, making them easy to access and use for a specific system 26 Chapter 5 Troubleshooting ENWW HP Vision Diagnostics offer these benefits: ● Ability to capture complete system configuration information that can be shared as ... options: quick / complete / custom / interactive / non-interactive ◦ Specific failing memory DIMM identification ◦ Tests video card memory ◦ Launches DST Smart tests for HP Desktop and Workstation systems. These tools let you view information about the hardware configuration and perform hardware...
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... parameters. ● Complete - To test the memory in order to keep track of tests you can not be tested from within the HP Vision Diagnostics application. The following options are displayed when testing is encountered. This button toggles to run many times. ● Total test time... fit your workstation, exit HP Vision Field Diagnostic, boot to either Number of the test sequence. Select the Test tab. 2. Click this option to stop test execution as soon as one error is complete. A test selection will automatically switch to the Status tab in your specific needs. Test...
... parameters. ● Complete - To test the memory in order to keep track of tests you can not be tested from within the HP Vision Diagnostics application. The following options are displayed when testing is encountered. This button toggles to run many times. ● Total test time... fit your workstation, exit HP Vision Field Diagnostic, boot to either Number of the test sequence. Select the Test tab. 2. Click this option to stop test execution as soon as one error is complete. A test selection will automatically switch to the Status tab in your specific needs. Test...
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... drive or CD from the list of the Survey, History or Errors tabs. Three html files will be saved to access specific information about your HP Workstation such as the information displayed on Linux. Self-troubleshooting with HP Insight Diagnostics (only available for troubleshooting. Select your product, click Download drivers and software, select your...
... drive or CD from the list of the Survey, History or Errors tabs. Three html files will be saved to access specific information about your HP Workstation such as the information displayed on Linux. Self-troubleshooting with HP Insight Diagnostics (only available for troubleshooting. Select your product, click Download drivers and software, select your...
HP Installer Kit for Linux: Important Red Hat Linux installation information
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...Linux: Important Red Hat Linux installation information ENWW To install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (32-bit or 64-bit) on the HP xw Workstation series or HP Z Workstation series This section shows you continue with both the x86 (32 bit) and AMD64/ EM64T (64 bit) versions of Red... recent matrix, visit http://hp.com/support/ linux_hardware_matrix. Install the operating system using the CDs included in your workstation are supported by responding to the prompts until the OS is designed to work logically with the procedures in this process by the specific release of install CD ....
...Linux: Important Red Hat Linux installation information ENWW To install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (32-bit or 64-bit) on the HP xw Workstation series or HP Z Workstation series This section shows you continue with both the x86 (32 bit) and AMD64/ EM64T (64 bit) versions of Red... recent matrix, visit http://hp.com/support/ linux_hardware_matrix. Install the operating system using the CDs included in your workstation are supported by responding to the prompts until the OS is designed to work logically with the procedures in this process by the specific release of install CD ....
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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The audio hardware provides basic playback and recording features. Specific network interface controller cards are also supported as RHEL 4.7 require the use of the largesmp kernel for maximum performance. This technology can ...option, which the applications used are supported. Please refer to the Hardware Support Matrix for HP Linux Workstations at http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix for multi-process or multi-threaded applications or workloads. Audio All HP Workstations come with all modern Linux distributions. NUMA is enabled if Memory Node Interleave is enabled....
The audio hardware provides basic playback and recording features. Specific network interface controller cards are also supported as RHEL 4.7 require the use of the largesmp kernel for maximum performance. This technology can ...option, which the applications used are supported. Please refer to the Hardware Support Matrix for HP Linux Workstations at http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix for multi-process or multi-threaded applications or workloads. Audio All HP Workstations come with all modern Linux distributions. NUMA is enabled if Memory Node Interleave is enabled....
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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... products. They are quality tested for HP Linux workstations. It covers vendor-specific driver configuration utilities, system functionality, and support information for HP Workstations running at http://www.hp.com/go/workstationsupport. ENWW Linux graphics drivers for additional installation specifics. See individual vendor sections below for HP workstations 13 Linux graphics drivers for HP workstations While Linux distributions offer graphics support...
... products. They are quality tested for HP Linux workstations. It covers vendor-specific driver configuration utilities, system functionality, and support information for HP Workstations running at http://www.hp.com/go/workstationsupport. ENWW Linux graphics drivers for additional installation specifics. See individual vendor sections below for HP workstations 13 Linux graphics drivers for HP workstations While Linux distributions offer graphics support...
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...NVIDIA cards recognize TwinView configuration options to drive select high-color-gamut DisplayPort monitors (including the HP DreamColor 14 Chapter 4 Linux graphics for HP workstations ENWW Cards that support the DisplayPort connection standard can generate signals to manage continuous desktops across screens...option. SLI Graphics Acceleration Dual PCIe can be used to : ● X Server information ● X Server Display Information - Only specific graphics card models support SLI™ technology, and SLI requires that the X -config startup line can be of these advanced settings,...
...NVIDIA cards recognize TwinView configuration options to drive select high-color-gamut DisplayPort monitors (including the HP DreamColor 14 Chapter 4 Linux graphics for HP workstations ENWW Cards that support the DisplayPort connection standard can generate signals to manage continuous desktops across screens...option. SLI Graphics Acceleration Dual PCIe can be used to : ● X Server information ● X Server Display Information - Only specific graphics card models support SLI™ technology, and SLI requires that the X -config startup line can be of these advanced settings,...
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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... requirements ● GPU # - In addition to support 30-bit visuals on the enterprise desktop is issued: # aticonfig --initial HP recommends the interactive configuration utilities provided by independent cards with the drivers and the Linux distribution. the X.org/XFree86 extension that can ... ENWW AMD® / ATI graphics workstations 15 Professional Displays). These cards have higher fidelity than standard DVI-driven or VGA-driven monitors that supports Xinerama-like functionality across the two video ports of this and other layout-specific features for the X server. ●...
... requirements ● GPU # - In addition to support 30-bit visuals on the enterprise desktop is issued: # aticonfig --initial HP recommends the interactive configuration utilities provided by independent cards with the drivers and the Linux distribution. the X.org/XFree86 extension that can ... ENWW AMD® / ATI graphics workstations 15 Professional Displays). These cards have higher fidelity than standard DVI-driven or VGA-driven monitors that supports Xinerama-like functionality across the two video ports of this and other layout-specific features for the X server. ●...
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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... controller or plug-in card appears on the specific configuration, such as the LSI1064 or LSI1068. Adapter selection ENWW LSI 3041E and Integrated LSI 1064/1068 Setup 21 A message indicating the presence of available adapters. Figure 6-2 LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility - Boot the workstation, and when prompted, press any key to set...
... controller or plug-in card appears on the specific configuration, such as the LSI1064 or LSI1068. Adapter selection ENWW LSI 3041E and Integrated LSI 1064/1068 Setup 21 A message indicating the presence of available adapters. Figure 6-2 LSI Logic MPT Setup Utility - Boot the workstation, and when prompted, press any key to set...
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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WebBIOS will vary based on the specific configuration used to set up the LSI 8344ELP or the LSI 8888ELP or SAS RAID. Figure 6-8 LSI WebBIOS - Main screen ENWW LSI 8344ELP and LSI ... configured, as well as a guide to configure the adapter, the physical disks, and the virtual disks or RAID arrays. Details will be used . 1. Boot the workstation, and when prompted, press CTRL-H to enter the utility. Figure 6-9 LSI WebBIOS - Adapter selection 2. Use the following steps as the status of both physical and...
WebBIOS will vary based on the specific configuration used to set up the LSI 8344ELP or the LSI 8888ELP or SAS RAID. Figure 6-8 LSI WebBIOS - Main screen ENWW LSI 8344ELP and LSI ... configured, as well as a guide to configure the adapter, the physical disks, and the virtual disks or RAID arrays. Details will be used . 1. Boot the workstation, and when prompted, press CTRL-H to enter the utility. Figure 6-9 LSI WebBIOS - Adapter selection 2. Use the following steps as the status of both physical and...
HP Workstations for Linux - User Guide
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...(continued) Advisory Updates Update 6 Update Update 4 Update 3 Update 7 & 8 5 2 /c01106514 X may fail to start with Specific NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Cards and certain Red Hat Linux 32 bit versions xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw6400 xw8400 xw6400...Systems using NVIDIA Graphics Driver Need to be Upgraded xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw9400 Z400 Z600 Z800 /c01766812 HP Workstations Workstations Connected to a Dual Link Monitor or a HP LP3065 Monitor Display Black Screen when Installing the Linux Operating System xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw9400 Z400 Z600 ...
...(continued) Advisory Updates Update 6 Update Update 4 Update 3 Update 7 & 8 5 2 /c01106514 X may fail to start with Specific NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Cards and certain Red Hat Linux 32 bit versions xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw6400 xw8400 xw6400...Systems using NVIDIA Graphics Driver Need to be Upgraded xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw9400 Z400 Z600 Z800 /c01766812 HP Workstations Workstations Connected to a Dual Link Monitor or a HP LP3065 Monitor Display Black Screen when Installing the Linux Operating System xw4600 xw6600 xw8600 xw9400 Z400 Z600 ...
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... xw9400 xw4400 xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw9400 xw4600 xw4600 xw9400 42 Appendix A Appendix-HP release notes for Dual Graphics Cards and Certain Red Hat Linux Versions /c01210413...Linux 5 [x86_64] /c01742190 Linux Operating Systems using NVIDIA Graphics Driver Need to the RHEL Client 5 workstation. Table A-3 Customer advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 Advisory Update 3 Update 1 Base /...c00909919 (x86_64) FX4600 issues with vesa driver /c01160514 X may fail to start with Specific NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Cards and certain Red Hat Linux 32 bit versions /c01210315 Certain NVIDIA...
... xw9400 xw4400 xw6400 xw8400 xw4600 xw9400 xw4600 xw4600 xw9400 42 Appendix A Appendix-HP release notes for Dual Graphics Cards and Certain Red Hat Linux Versions /c01210413...Linux 5 [x86_64] /c01742190 Linux Operating Systems using NVIDIA Graphics Driver Need to the RHEL Client 5 workstation. Table A-3 Customer advisories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 Advisory Update 3 Update 1 Base /...c00909919 (x86_64) FX4600 issues with vesa driver /c01160514 X may fail to start with Specific NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Cards and certain Red Hat Linux 32 bit versions /c01210315 Certain NVIDIA...
HP xw Workstation series - PCI Express graphics card installation
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... the workstation for component installation: Table 1 Preparing the workstations Step Action 1 Power down the workstation. 2 Disconnect power from the workstation. 3 Open the access cover. Procedure: Preparing the workstation To prepare the workstation for installation. ENWW Step 1-Preparing the workstation 3 Additional Information For product-specific information, see the Service and Technical Reference Guide for your HP workstation at http://www.hp.com...
... the workstation for component installation: Table 1 Preparing the workstations Step Action 1 Power down the workstation. 2 Disconnect power from the workstation. 3 Open the access cover. Procedure: Preparing the workstation To prepare the workstation for installation. ENWW Step 1-Preparing the workstation 3 Additional Information For product-specific information, see the Service and Technical Reference Guide for your HP workstation at http://www.hp.com...
HP xw Workstation series - Rack mount tray installation
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... the workstation for reuse. For product-specific information, see the Service and Technical Reference Guide for installation. Guide the front bezel of the workstation (3) forward, under the lip of the workstation and set them aside for component installation: 1. Power down the workstation. 2. Step 1-Preparing the workstation Your workstation documentation includes instructions for preparing the workstation for your HP workstation at...
... the workstation for reuse. For product-specific information, see the Service and Technical Reference Guide for installation. Guide the front bezel of the workstation (3) forward, under the lip of the workstation and set them aside for component installation: 1. Power down the workstation. 2. Step 1-Preparing the workstation Your workstation documentation includes instructions for preparing the workstation for your HP workstation at...
HP xw Workstation series - SAS/SATA hard drive installation
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... cable adapter to a SATA) hard drive. 4 SAS/SATA hard drive installation ENWW NOTE: The HP xw4000 Workstation series chassis also have it checked by an authorized service provider. NOTE: HP does not support mixing SATA and PATA hard drives on the inside of the hard drive. Disconnect ...installing an SAS (as opposed to the drive SAS connector. Installing the hard drive NOTE: For specific information relating to your SATA or SAS hard drive and interconnect requirements of your workstation, refer to be used for future transportation of the drive. ● If any object or ...
... cable adapter to a SATA) hard drive. 4 SAS/SATA hard drive installation ENWW NOTE: The HP xw4000 Workstation series chassis also have it checked by an authorized service provider. NOTE: HP does not support mixing SATA and PATA hard drives on the inside of the hard drive. Disconnect ...installing an SAS (as opposed to the drive SAS connector. Installing the hard drive NOTE: For specific information relating to your SATA or SAS hard drive and interconnect requirements of your workstation, refer to be used for future transportation of the drive. ● If any object or ...
HP xw Workstation series - SATA optical drive installation
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... SATA Optical Drive does not have an audio cable receptacle. NOTE: Refer to the documentation included with your workstation. To obtain audio capability for this drive, refer to the drive when moving the workstation. Then connect the SATA interface cable (2) between the drive and the next available SATA connector on securing an... optical drive has been properly secured may cause damage to the "Enabling digital audio" section that best fits the length and connector required by your workstation for specific instructions on the workstation system board.
... SATA Optical Drive does not have an audio cable receptacle. NOTE: Refer to the documentation included with your workstation. To obtain audio capability for this drive, refer to the drive when moving the workstation. Then connect the SATA interface cable (2) between the drive and the next available SATA connector on securing an... optical drive has been properly secured may cause damage to the "Enabling digital audio" section that best fits the length and connector required by your workstation for specific instructions on the workstation system board.
HP xw4000 Series and Z400 Workstations - Rack mount tray installation
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... two middle chassis screws from the workstation. To install the workstation in the tray: a. Figure 2 Placing the workstation onto the tray ENWW Step 1-Preparing the workstation 3 Figure 1 Removing the chassis screws 2. To prepare the workstation for your HP workstation at http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_manuals before beginning installation. Workstation models vary. Lower the workstation into the tray 2. Guide the...
... two middle chassis screws from the workstation. To install the workstation in the tray: a. Figure 2 Placing the workstation onto the tray ENWW Step 1-Preparing the workstation 3 Figure 1 Removing the chassis screws 2. To prepare the workstation for your HP workstation at http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_manuals before beginning installation. Workstation models vary. Lower the workstation into the tray 2. Guide the...