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 62    The HP Z400 Workstation computer, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard (HP),
 63    introduced in March 2009, was targeted towards professional users who
 64    needed powerful hardware for intensive tasks such as 3D modeling,
 65    video editing, CAD design, and similar applications.
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 69    Today, 2024, the mainboard could be interesting for homelabbers that
 70    want to build a NAS, because it has lots of SATA ports, a server CPU
 71    and supports ECC-RAM.
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 87      <h1 style="font-size:25px">PSU</h1>
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 91      To be able to use this mainboard with a regular ATX Power Supply Unit,
 92      one needs to get (or build) an adapter for the 24-Pin plug, because the Pinout
 93      on the HP Z400 is different from the regular PSUs:
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104      <h1 style="font-size:25px">RAM</h1>
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108      The HP-Z400 Mainboard supports up to 24 GB RAM.
109      It needs to be DDR3 ECC UDIMM RAM.
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113      HP's Note: Only unbuffered DDR3 DIMMs are supported.
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117      800-MHz-, 1066-MHz- and 1333-MHz.
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125      <h1 style="font-size:25px">CPU / CPU Socket</h1>
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129      CPU Socket: Single Intel LGA1366
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133      The mainboard was manufactured for these CPUs:
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137      Intel Xeon W3503, 2,40 GHz, 4 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Dual-Core
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141      Intel Xeon W3505, 2,53 GHz, 4 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Dual-Core
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145      Intel Xeon W3520, 2,66 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo
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149      Intel Xeon W3540, 2,93 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo
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153      Intel Xeon W3570, 3,20 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1333-MHz-Speicher, 6,4 GT/s, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo
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159      Missing a backplate? I found <a class="text-link" href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3299442">this</a> model on Thingiverse,
160      but had to modify it, to use it:
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173      <h1 style="font-size:25px">Front Panel PinOut</h1>
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177      This is how the Power-LED and Power-button need to
178      be attached:
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184      The HDD-LED is plugged into a different place, which is right next
185      to the other pins:
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193      Every time you try to boot ANY Linux distribution,
194      you get a kernel panic?
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198      Apparently, this has something to do with the BIOS,
199      which needs to be updated to at least version 3.61 Rev.A.
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203      The easiest way to update the BIOS, seems to be installing Windows on it,
204      because <a class="text-link" href="https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/hp-z400-workstation/3718668">
205      HP provides a Windows executable</a> for the BIOS update.
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