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Hardware projects / Re: An easy to build android/b...
Last post by davek - March 20, 2019, 08:51:18 amHi Andy,
Just wanted to check this topic was still live as there hasn't been any posts for a while
Just wanted to check this topic was still live as there hasn't been any posts for a while
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Hardware projects / Re: Hacking an HP Z800 motherb...
Last post by gio321 - March 13, 2019, 04:49:02 amFirst of all, many thanks to Andy and everyone here for the great tips that helped me build my own hacked Z800 based machine.
It's housed in a Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 and it's happily running 2 x x5680's with the 003 M/B.
Corsair H55 AIO liquid coolers fit perfectly without any mods.
I got 2 Corsair factory refurbished ones for £35 each (for the UK based people) and they are running fine.
The PSU is the COOLERMASTER SILENT PRO 1000W and I made my own memory and M/B cables by following Andy's and b1Ack's instructions (a few posts above) and did not connect the +5V pins on the 18pin cable. It's running fine with 48GB of RAM.
I'm running a Mojave osx based Hackintosh system with 2 x PCIe NVME drives and 9 x HDDs all working fine both on Intel and the SAS controller (plenty of drives in apple soft raid config as I'm using it as a music studio workstation).
Graphics is the Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB and I also got a USB 3.0 PCIe card.
Again thanks all.
It's housed in a Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 and it's happily running 2 x x5680's with the 003 M/B.
Corsair H55 AIO liquid coolers fit perfectly without any mods.
I got 2 Corsair factory refurbished ones for £35 each (for the UK based people) and they are running fine.
The PSU is the COOLERMASTER SILENT PRO 1000W and I made my own memory and M/B cables by following Andy's and b1Ack's instructions (a few posts above) and did not connect the +5V pins on the 18pin cable. It's running fine with 48GB of RAM.
I'm running a Mojave osx based Hackintosh system with 2 x PCIe NVME drives and 9 x HDDs all working fine both on Intel and the SAS controller (plenty of drives in apple soft raid config as I'm using it as a music studio workstation).
Graphics is the Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB and I also got a USB 3.0 PCIe card.
Again thanks all.
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Hardware projects / Re: Modifying a Z800 MotherBoa...
Last post by plattfuss1972 - March 01, 2019, 01:11:02 pmHello.
I'm stuck with programming new SPI with Andy's flash bios.bin from 003 board.
Can You guide me through this.
I placed the chip on CH341, programmm detects it. Then I open Andy's bios, erase the chip, and then I press program/write.
But after 10-15 seconds I get error write timeout.
What could be the problem?
Regards
Gorazd
I'm stuck with programming new SPI with Andy's flash bios.bin from 003 board.
Can You guide me through this.
I placed the chip on CH341, programmm detects it. Then I open Andy's bios, erase the chip, and then I press program/write.
But after 10-15 seconds I get error write timeout.
What could be the problem?
Regards
Gorazd
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Hardware projects / Re: Hacking an HP Z800 motherb...
Last post by plattfuss1972 - February 13, 2019, 08:07:56 amCPU Cooler alternative for HP Z800.
LC-Power's LC-CC-120-LiCo Liquid cooling fits like a glove on original CPU heatsink nuts.
https://www.lc-power.com/en/product/cpu-cooler/lc-cc-120-lico/
Same goes for normal Air cooling LC-CC-120.
https://www.lc-power.com/en/product/cpu-cooler/lc-cc-120/
Using It's standofs for AMD fit and 3mm washer on top, then using bracket for Intel 115x, It works perfectly.
Combinig standofs from LC-CC-120-LiCo and everything else from LC-CC-120, I got this...
Temperature droped from 47C (stock cooler) to 34C (LC-CC-120) in idle, and from 59C (stock cooler) to 48C (LC-CC-120) under full load...
Running 2x Xeon E5520.
Next step, BIOS chip change (rev 001 BootBlock to 003 BootBlock) for 2x E5645.
LC-Power's LC-CC-120-LiCo Liquid cooling fits like a glove on original CPU heatsink nuts.
https://www.lc-power.com/en/product/cpu-cooler/lc-cc-120-lico/
Same goes for normal Air cooling LC-CC-120.
https://www.lc-power.com/en/product/cpu-cooler/lc-cc-120/
Using It's standofs for AMD fit and 3mm washer on top, then using bracket for Intel 115x, It works perfectly.
Combinig standofs from LC-CC-120-LiCo and everything else from LC-CC-120, I got this...
Temperature droped from 47C (stock cooler) to 34C (LC-CC-120) in idle, and from 59C (stock cooler) to 48C (LC-CC-120) under full load...
Running 2x Xeon E5520.
Next step, BIOS chip change (rev 001 BootBlock to 003 BootBlock) for 2x E5645.
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Hardware projects / Re: Hacking an HP Z800 motherb...
Last post by plattfuss1972 - January 30, 2019, 08:38:31 amQuote from: b1Ack on July 03, 2018, 09:42:52 am
How update bootblock ?
I'm surprised that lot of people was looking for right rev.003 full image, not looking what we have - a /B option for DOS flasher. Just used it and my bootblock became a new one with 2018 BIOS version in some time. And - process look really long and looks like it hang. For more than minute. No progress, no numlock reaction - nothing. Don't panic, read what you have on screen, all fine, obey and go make some tea and not look on this f***ing thing - and it will end and be ok.
No luck for me.
BootBlock remains 01/30/09.
What CMD line must I use to upgrade bootblock with flashbin.exe?
Regards
Plattfuss & Bigfoot co.
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Hardware projects / Re: Hacking an HP Z800 motherb...
Last post by plattfuss1972 - January 29, 2019, 07:46:44 amHello everyone.
After rescuing old Z800 from being dumped (bad PSU), I decied to give It a go with something new.
How to fit ATX PSU into HP Z800 on top.
After cable and case mod, this is what came out:
Plattfuss & Bigfoot co.
After rescuing old Z800 from being dumped (bad PSU), I decied to give It a go with something new.
How to fit ATX PSU into HP Z800 on top.
After cable and case mod, this is what came out:
Plattfuss & Bigfoot co.
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General discussion / Re: I think I bricked my HP Z8...
Last post by Borman - November 26, 2018, 04:13:35 amWhat did you do with the rest of the parts, Nitto? Are you selling them? You're going to love the SSD btw, such a performance booster.
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Hardware projects / Re: Hacking an HP Z800 motherb...
Last post by redeyeninja - November 18, 2018, 07:19:09 pmThanks to Andy and this forum, I've embarked on refitting a Z800 into a larger case with room for 17 HDD + 2 SSD and NVME PVI-e boot from a m.2 drive, for a total of 20 drives, hosting a 75tb [physical] Windows Storage Spaces single node array.
I have written out a how-to on booting from a generic/amazon PCI-e/NVME adapter and m.2 drive:
https://steemit.com/hp/@fobio/load-win10-on-nvme-pci-e-on-hp-z800
Currently, I'm tackling the F1 boot prompt for various missing pieces from knightcrusader's post:
http://andybrown.me.uk/forum/index.php/topic,14.msg351.html?PHPSESSID=mi0vs2bst08m691utbni83qka6#msg351
One of the first hurdles was to tame the fans that I have migrated over for now from the Z800 case, namely front chassis and memory. I plan to eventually swapping them out once I finish wiring the adapters but for the long term, I would still have to solve the temperature sensor issue. Instead of hacking and wasting the oem front panel cable, I bought some 2n2222a temperature sensors off amazon in TO-92 size and arduino crimping set. And instead of wiring and soldering, I was able to just crimp C and B together for Pin # 11 [grey] and crimp E for Pin #12 [brown] and pushed them into a 2-pin Dupont housing...plugged it in and the fans are spinning normally now. Here's a pic of the transistors:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/articles/techzone/2017/dec/transistor-basics
Once I get the rest of the parts, I'll tackle the memory, fron chassis, rear chassis and maybe the heatsinks.
Also, by hiding the 1394 port in BIOS under Security, I was able to eliminate it from alerting in the F1 prompt. I may do that for the USB headers as well, since I have a USB3 card that can power/connect to the front USB3 port on my case. Btw, I'm using a Fractal Design XL R2.
I have written out a how-to on booting from a generic/amazon PCI-e/NVME adapter and m.2 drive:
https://steemit.com/hp/@fobio/load-win10-on-nvme-pci-e-on-hp-z800
Currently, I'm tackling the F1 boot prompt for various missing pieces from knightcrusader's post:
http://andybrown.me.uk/forum/index.php/topic,14.msg351.html?PHPSESSID=mi0vs2bst08m691utbni83qka6#msg351
One of the first hurdles was to tame the fans that I have migrated over for now from the Z800 case, namely front chassis and memory. I plan to eventually swapping them out once I finish wiring the adapters but for the long term, I would still have to solve the temperature sensor issue. Instead of hacking and wasting the oem front panel cable, I bought some 2n2222a temperature sensors off amazon in TO-92 size and arduino crimping set. And instead of wiring and soldering, I was able to just crimp C and B together for Pin # 11 [grey] and crimp E for Pin #12 [brown] and pushed them into a 2-pin Dupont housing...plugged it in and the fans are spinning normally now. Here's a pic of the transistors:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/articles/techzone/2017/dec/transistor-basics
Once I get the rest of the parts, I'll tackle the memory, fron chassis, rear chassis and maybe the heatsinks.
Also, by hiding the 1394 port in BIOS under Security, I was able to eliminate it from alerting in the F1 prompt. I may do that for the USB headers as well, since I have a USB3 card that can power/connect to the front USB3 port on my case. Btw, I'm using a Fractal Design XL R2.
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Hardware projects / Re: Z800 version 003 extracted...
Last post by mate_1974 - October 24, 2018, 10:45:56 amHi,
I have Z800 V2 board and currently running 2x E5649 prosessors.
Eevery time, it starts ok.
But when you reboot it, sometimes it hangs and fans start to blow full speed
I would love to change chip which give me never bootblock. Is anyone selling those?
I am ok, if mac address change.
I have Z800 V2 board and currently running 2x E5649 prosessors.
Eevery time, it starts ok.
But when you reboot it, sometimes it hangs and fans start to blow full speed
I would love to change chip which give me never bootblock. Is anyone selling those?
I am ok, if mac address change.
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General discussion / Re: I think I bricked my HP Z8...
Last post by nitto999 - October 01, 2018, 10:55:51 pmUpdate: Got my new board and I'm one happy camper! Now I just need buy a good PCI Sata 3 card and toss in a nice SSD for a boot/program drive.