HP Z240

HP Support Center .......................................................................................................... 63
HP Chat Support .............................................................................................................. 63
Customer Advisories, Customer and Security Bulletins, and Customer Notices ........... 63
Product Change Notications ....................................................................... 64
Helpful hints ...................................................................................................................................... 64
At startup ........................................................................................................................ 64
During operation ............................................................................................................. 64
Customer Self Repair ...................................................................................................... 65
Troubleshooting scenarios and solutions ........................................................................................................... 66
Solving minor problems .................................................................................................................... 66
Solving hard drive problems ............................................................................................................. 67
Solving display problems .................................................................................................................. 69
Solving audio problems ..................................................................................................................... 71
Solving printer problems ................................................................................................................... 72
Solving power supply problems ........................................................................................................ 72
Testing power supply ...................................................................................................... 72
Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) ........................................................................................................... 73
Downloading HP PC Hardware Diagnostics (UEFI) to a USB device .................................................. 74
POST error messages and diagnostic front panel LEDs and audible codes ....................................................... 74
POST numeric codes and text messages .......................................................................................... 75
Interpreting system validation diagnostic front panel LEDs and audible codes ................................................ 80
5 Conguring password security and resetting CMOS ........................................................................................ 82
Preparing to congure passwords ...................................................................................................................... 82
Resetting the password jumper .......................................................................................................................... 82
Clearing and resetting the BIOS ........................................................................................................................... 83
Appendix A Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................... 85
System RAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 85
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................... 85
Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 86
Hyper-Threading Technology .............................................................................................................................. 86
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ............................................................................................................................. 86
AMD Graphics Workstations ................................................................................................................................ 87
Appendix B Conguring RAID devices ............................................................................................................... 88
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options .............................................................. 88
Supported RAID congurations ........................................................................................................................... 89
Conguring Intel SATA RAID ................................................................................................................................. 89
Conguring system BIOS ................................................................................................................... 89
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