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About this guide

This guide provides setup and troubleshooting information for the HP Z Workstation series. It includes

these topics:

Guide topics

Locating HP resources on page 1

Workstation features on page 7

Setting up the workstation on page 20

Setting up, backing up, restoring, and recovering Windows

7 on page 32

Setting up and restoring Windows 8 on page 37

Setting up and restoring Linux on page 42

Diagnostics and Minor Troubleshooting on page 49

Routine Care on page 55

TIP: If you do not find what you are looking for in this guide:

— Find technical details in the

Maintenance and Service Guide

for your workstation at

http://www.hp.com/support/workstation_manuals.

— View component installation videos at

http://www.hp.com/go/sml.

— See additional information on your workstation at

http://www.hp.com/go/workstations.

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HP Z820 Workstation Series Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel C602
Processor Options	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 series
Memory	Up to 512 GB DDR3
Storage Options	Supports SAS, SATA, and SSD drives
Graphics Options	NVIDIA Quadro or AMD FirePro professional graphics cards
Expansion Slots	1 PCI
Power Supply	1125W
Operating System	Windows 7, Windows 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux