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Hardware projects / Hacking an HP Z600 motherboard...
Last post by olum64 - June 26, 2018, 09:34:25 amHello to all modders, I'm happy to be here on the great board
and greetings from Germany at munich bayern
I would like to introduce my insperation through the board here
The project wedding LianLi PC7 and HP-Z600
I bought the LianLi myself in 2001-2002 and since then it has seen a lot, the last years it was only in the corner but now it gets breathed new life
For fixing a part of the mainboard screws fit original from the case only 5 new holders had to be made because I cut the original HP spacer cut the pin and cut a hole and cut 3mm / 1/8 inch thread
Unfortunately, I can not continue because I do not get two CPUs to run, I bought the board and he had only one CPU installed!
Board is a 003 so also 6 cores suitable but I get only one whether 4 or 6 cores to run
the error looks like this from the HP-Z600 goes on and I see only the top left corner in the corner of the console flash or the Blue HP logo and so it stops! do I pee the CPU1 he goes without problems who would have a tip
Bios is 3.61 on it
Images:
and greetings from Germany at munich bayern
I would like to introduce my insperation through the board here
The project wedding LianLi PC7 and HP-Z600
I bought the LianLi myself in 2001-2002 and since then it has seen a lot, the last years it was only in the corner but now it gets breathed new life
For fixing a part of the mainboard screws fit original from the case only 5 new holders had to be made because I cut the original HP spacer cut the pin and cut a hole and cut 3mm / 1/8 inch thread
Unfortunately, I can not continue because I do not get two CPUs to run, I bought the board and he had only one CPU installed!
Board is a 003 so also 6 cores suitable but I get only one whether 4 or 6 cores to run
the error looks like this from the HP-Z600 goes on and I see only the top left corner in the corner of the console flash or the Blue HP logo and so it stops! do I pee the CPU1 he goes without problems who would have a tip
Bios is 3.61 on it
Images:
The last picture shows where the Z600 stops is a second CPU installed
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Hardware projects / Re: Z800 version 003 extracted...
Last post by Animajosser - May 06, 2018, 10:30:35 amHello, I am new to this forum and I have just used the bios image Mr. Brown uploaded and It seems to work. A more complete description of my problem is posted here: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/custom-dual-xeon-build-restarting-needed-a-couple-of-times-to-finally-start-up.2543896/#post-39394527 . I bought 2 Xeon X5650 cpu's a while ago and a Z800 rev. 002 to use them in, as described on Mr. Browns blog. I found out that starting up didn't go as smoothly and after a long time I read on this forum and the comments that it had to do with the software on the bios chip. So I bought a CH341A bios programmer and five SST 25VF016B IC's on Aliexpress and flashed the new bios chip with the software posted in this thread. I used a tool from this page: https://tosiek.pl/ch341-eeprom-and-spi-flash-programmer/ and I installed the drivers with Snappy Driver Installer. Something I noted was that the software says wrongfully how to place the chip in the programmer. The notch of the chip needs to be turned 180 degrees, otherwise it won't work in this case. To conclude, I unsoldered the old bios chip as insurance and soldered in the new one in and it seems to work, as it hasn't done anything weird in 5-10 boot ups. It needs more testing of course and I'm rendering a difficult 3D-scene right now to stress test it (as I don't want the new bios to cause instability or something). This is no hardware mod, as it is wrongfully called, but a software mod. I had to replace the bios, because it was difficult to flash it with the motherboard, but the only thing I changed is some software on the bios chip.
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Hardware projects / Re: HP Z440 12 pin Memory conn...
Last post by hen6e - April 21, 2018, 11:36:10 pmI have used my z440 board for quite long time.I have resolve the post error om start.
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General discussion / Re: Electronic Design Software
Last post by Andy Brown - April 01, 2018, 10:46:59 amQuote from: Klutts on April 01, 2018, 08:30:15 am
I don't think an Internet connection should be a deciding factor these days, for the most part anyway.
I totally agree. I do see that some people object to 'cloud' based systems on principle but I'm not one of them.
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General discussion / Re: Electronic Design Software
Last post by Klutts - April 01, 2018, 08:30:15 amI use Altium Circuit Maker as well, Andy. I don't think an Internet connection should be a deciding factor these days, for the most part anyway.
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General discussion / Re: Electronic Design Software
Last post by Andy Brown - March 22, 2018, 07:15:16 amHi, these days I use and recommend Altium Circuit Maker. It requires an Internet connection but if you can accept that then I think it's a very powerful system.
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General discussion / Electronic Design Software
Last post by ctbully - March 22, 2018, 05:44:24 amHi Andy,
I would like to know what software you use to do your circuit designs.
Regards
John
I would like to know what software you use to do your circuit designs.
Regards
John
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General discussion / Re: All OK, Andy?
Last post by Phil - March 15, 2018, 10:48:18 amHope you find time for more projects soon! My free time also evaporated the last 6 months...
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General discussion / Re: All OK, Andy?
Last post by Andy Brown - March 15, 2018, 04:31:35 amI'm here, just rather busy at the moment that's all. Thanks for the concern though!
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General discussion / All OK, Andy?
Last post by Phil - March 15, 2018, 03:57:41 amNo updates for a while. Getting worried. Hope all is OK with you!