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class="post-meta"> 41 </div> 42 </header> 43 </article> 44 45 <nav class="breadcrumb"> 46 <a href="/">Home</a> 47 <span class="divider">›</span> 48 <a href="/wiki/">Wiki</a> 49 <span class="divider">›</span> 50 <a href="/wiki/specific_hardware/specific_hardware.html">Specific Hardware</a> 51 <span class="divider">›</span> 52 <span class="current">HP Z400 Mainboard</span> 53 </nav> 54 55 <section class="post-content"> 56 57 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 58 59 60 61 <p> 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. 66 </p> 67 68 <p> 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. 72 </p> 73 74 <img src="hp-z400.jpg"/> 75 76 77 78 <a href="https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01709672" button class="button1" role="button">HP's Docs</a> 79 80 <br><br> 81 82 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 83 84 <hr> 85 86 <span style="color:#ff6600"> 87 <h1 style="font-size:25px">PSU</h1> 88 </span> 89 90 <p> 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: 94 </p> 95 96 <img src="adapter_PSU.jpg"/> 97 98 <br> 99 <hr> 100 101 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 102 103 <span style="color:#ff6600"> 104 <h1 style="font-size:25px">RAM</h1> 105 </span> 106 107 <p> 108 The HP-Z400 Mainboard supports up to 24 GB RAM. 109 It needs to be DDR3 ECC UDIMM RAM. 110 </p> 111 112 <p> 113 HP's Note: Only unbuffered DDR3 DIMMs are supported. 114 </p> 115 116 <p> 117 800-MHz-, 1066-MHz- and 1333-MHz. 118 </p> 119 120 <hr> 121 122 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 123 124 <span style="color:#ff6600"> 125 <h1 style="font-size:25px">CPU / CPU Socket</h1> 126 </span> 127 128 <p> 129 CPU Socket: Single Intel LGA1366 130 </p> 131 132 <p> 133 The mainboard was manufactured for these CPUs: 134 </p> 135 136 <p> 137 Intel Xeon W3503, 2,40 GHz, 4 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Dual-Core 138 </p> 139 140 <p> 141 Intel Xeon W3505, 2,53 GHz, 4 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Dual-Core 142 </p> 143 144 <p> 145 Intel Xeon W3520, 2,66 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo 146 </p> 147 148 <p> 149 Intel Xeon W3540, 2,93 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1066-MHz-Speicher, 4,8 GT/s QPI, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo 150 </p> 151 152 <p> 153 Intel Xeon W3570, 3,20 GHz, 8 MB Cache, 1333-MHz-Speicher, 6,4 GT/s, Quad-Core, HT, Turbo 154 </p> 155 156 <br> 157 158 <p> 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: 161 </p> 162 163 <br> 164 165 <a href="LGA1366-BackPlate.zip" class="button1" role="button" download="printFiles">Download STL</a> 166 167 <br><br> 168 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 169 170 <hr> 171 172 <span style="color:#ff6600"> 173 <h1 style="font-size:25px">Front Panel PinOut</h1> 174 </span> 175 176 <p> 177 This is how the Power-LED and Power-button need to 178 be attached: 179 </p> 180 181 <img style="max-width:95%; width: 500px;" id="img_DocPreview" src="pinOut.jpg"/> 182 183 <p> 184 The HDD-LED is plugged into a different place, which is right next 185 to the other pins: 186 </p> 187 188 <img style="max-width:95%; width: 500px;" id="img_DocPreview" src="HDDLED.jpg"/> 189 190 191 192 <p> 193 Every time you try to boot ANY Linux distribution, 194 you get a kernel panic? 195 </p> 196 197 <p> 198 Apparently, this has something to do with the BIOS, 199 which needs to be updated to at least version 3.61 Rev.A. 200 </p> 201 202 <p> 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. 206 </p> 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --> 235 236 </section> 237 <hr /> 238 <footer class="post-footer"> 239 <a href="/wiki/specific_hardware/specific_hardware.html" class="cta-button">← Back</a> 240 </footer> 241 </main> 242 </body> 243 </html>