HP Z440, Z640, and Z840 Workstation Series - Maintenance and Service Guide

6 Conguring password security and resetting CMOS ........................................................................................ 99
Preparing to congure passwords ...................................................................................................................... 99
Resetting the password jumper ........................................................................................................................ 100
Clearing and resetting the CMOS ....................................................................................................................... 101
Using the CMOS button to reset CMOS ............................................................................................ 101
Using Computer Setup (F10) Utility to reset CMOS ........................................................................ 102
Appendix A Linux technical notes .................................................................................................................. 103
System RAM ....................................................................................................................................................... 103
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................. 103
Network cards .................................................................................................................................................... 104
Hyper-Threading Technology ............................................................................................................................ 104
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations .......................................................................................................................... 104
AMD Graphics Workstations .............................................................................................................................. 105
Appendix B Conguring RAID devices ............................................................................................................. 106
RAID hard drive maximum and associated storage controller options ............................................................ 106
Supported RAID congurations ......................................................................................................................... 107
Conguring Intel SATA RAID ............................................................................................................................... 108
Conguring system BIOS ................................................................................................................. 108
Conguring RAID with the Intel utility ............................................................................................ 109
Conguring RAID on an LSI 2308 or LSI 9217-4i4e controller .......................................................................... 110
RAID 0 conguration ....................................................................................................................... 110
RAID 1 conguration ....................................................................................................................... 111
RAID 1E/10 conguration ............................................................................................................... 112
Conguring RAID on an LSI 9270-8i MegaRAID controller ................................................................................ 113
RAID 0 .............................................................................................................................................. 113
Software RAID solution ..................................................................................................................................... 114
Software RAID considerations ........................................................................................................ 114
Performance considerations ........................................................................................................... 114
Conguring software RAID .............................................................................................................. 115
Appendix C System board designators ........................................................................................................... 116
HP Z440 and Z640 Workstation system board designators ............................................................................. 116
HP Z840 Workstations ....................................................................................................................................... 118
Appendix D Statement of Volatility ................................................................................................................ 121
Z440 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 121
Z640 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 121
Z840 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 122
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