HP Z840 Workstation Series Service Manual

Using the CMOS button to reset CMOS ........................................................................................... 100
Using Computer Setup (F10) Utility to reset CMOS ........................................................................ 101
Appendix A Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................. 102
System RAM ....................................................................................................................................................... 102
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................. 102
Network cards ................................................................................................................................................... 103
Hyper-Threading Technology ........................................................................................................................... 103
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations .......................................................................................................................... 103
AMD Graphics Workstations .............................................................................................................................. 104
Appendix B Configuring RAID devices ............................................................................................................. 105
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options ........................................................... 105
Supported RAID configurations ......................................................................................................................... 106
Configuring Intel SATA RAID .............................................................................................................................. 107
Configuring system BIOS ................................................................................................................ 107
Configuring RAID with the Intel utility ............................................................................................ 108
Configuring RAID on an LSI 2308 or LSI 9217-4i4e controller ......................................................................... 109
RAID 0 configuration ....................................................................................................................... 109
RAID 1 configuration ....................................................................................................................... 110
RAID 1E/10 configuration ............................................................................................................... 111
Configuring RAID on an LSI 9270-8i MegaRAID controller ............................................................................... 112
RAID 0 .............................................................................................................................................. 112
Software RAID solution ..................................................................................................................................... 113
Software RAID considerations ........................................................................................................ 113
Performance considerations .......................................................................................................... 113
Configuring software RAID .............................................................................................................. 114
Appendix C System board designators ........................................................................................................... 115
HP Z440 and Z640 Workstation system board designators ............................................................................ 115
HP Z840 Workstations ...................................................................................................................................... 117
Appendix D Statement of Volatility ............................................................................................................... 120
Z440 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 120
Z640 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 120
Z840 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 121
Index ........................................................................................................................................................... 122
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HP Z840 Workstation Series Specifications

General

Chipset	Intel C612
Memory Slots	16 DIMM slots
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series
Storage	Supports SATA, SAS, and SSD
Graphics	NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro options
Expansion Slots	7 PCIe slots
Power Supply	1125W 90% efficient
Operating System	Windows 10 Pro 64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Ports	USB 3.0, USB 2.0