I forgot to mention that this machine uses unbuffered ECC RAM. Also, tonight the sound controller died right in front of me. I was using the computer when suddenly the speaker started emitting buzzing sounds. A few minutes later it went silent, and now neither it or any of the output jacks work. That would certainly explain the speaker sounding bad beforehand.
I love these HP Z workstations, in my current job and one of my previous ones I've worked with a few different models of them, in my current job we have some older HP Z240 Workstations which use Intel 6th gen i7s, and some newer HP Z2 G4 workstations which use Intel 8th gen i7s, and in the past I've worked with the gigantic HP Z820 workstations, which are dual-socket LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge Xeon based machines, so they could theoretically take two 8-core Xeon E5-2670 CPUs and up to 128GB of DDR3 ECC RAM. Ours were never configured that high of course, but I did piece together one from parts that had dual E5-2620 6-core Xeons, 64GB of RAM and dual Quadros, so still quite insane for a machine made in 2012. When we started to retire those in 2022, I really wanted one to use as my home server, but their sheer size and high power draw convinced me not to do that as cool as it would have been. The CPU in your Z400 according to Intel is one of the fastest Xeons for that socket, only being beaten by the W3690. I'm guessing the bad benchmark scores are due to the newer version of PassMark that you ran, I believe PassMark 11 is a fair bit more demanding than PassMark 10, which is why I just stick with 10 for any machines I benchmark to keep things consistent when comparing results. The Z400 could also probably take up to 48GB of RAM if 8GB DIMMs are used, so still a pretty beefy machine for its time. It's not unheard of for organizations to keep these around for 8-10 years, we had our Z820s I mentioned earlier in service for 10 years before we retired them. As for Windows 11, we are facing the same issue in our workplace, our Z240s are still perfectly fine for what we need to use them for, as they've gotten GPU upgrades to keep them relevant, however due to Windows 10 support ending in 10 months, we can't keep them in use in a professional environment. We've settled on some brand-new HP Z Rack workstations as their replacements, which the users remote into from their laptops, rather than directly using them at their desks. These are a very cool 1U rack design rather than a tower, so they're in our server room, since all they run is simulations, so they don't need direct connection to a monitor.
Don't PassMark scores stay consistent from version to version? I thought they were supposed to. But I neglected to remember that the score for my old main PC was with the CPU overclocked by a whole GHz :) You're right though, going by the base scores this is actually the more powerful CPU, which I didn't expect.
You had me curious, so I ran PerformanceTest 10 as well. The scores are almost the same - 30 points lower on the CPU score, 80 points lower on the 3D score, and 30 points higher on the disk score. But the main score is 500 points lower?? And the percentiles are all different.
@@themaritimegirl ah okay that’s interesting, sounds like it’s just varying in the margin of error. Guess they’re consistent across versions of the benchmark. The more you know.
@JackStavris It makes sense because back in the day scores were 2 or 3 digits, and now today AMDs top-end stuff is pulling 6 digits. They would want the scores to remain consistent across versions so that you can accurately compare new and old hardware.
I had HP Z400, and two motherboard in a row died 😢. So I modified that case, and fit standard ATX motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R. I was able to salvage original CPU cooler, and I mad some extra holes to fit standard ATX powersupply Superflower Leadex Titanium 1600W, it was tight fit, and ofcourse, GeForce GTX 980Ti. I built it 2 years ago, and it is still working (because of Gigabyte motherboard), running Windows 7 for authentic performance. RAM is 24GB Kingston HyperX, and SSD is Gigabyte Aorus PCI Express x4 SSD, and I installed patched BIOS, to get NVMe running on it and bootable!
Still using an ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 board myself with a Xeon X5670 CPU and a GTX 980 GPU. Originally I was using an ASUS GTX 780 ti until the memory starting acting up in it and I got the 980 to replace it for $45. Runs just about everything I throw at it still! Those gen one systems were built like tanks! 👍👍
There's a work-around for upgrading Win11 to 24H2 on a non 100% compliant machine. Use Rufus to prepare a 24H2 USB thumb drive configured to bypass the official system requirements. First, boot into the existing Win11, then plug in the USB drive & run the setup.exe on the USB drive. That should then allow upgrading to 24H2. The normal monthly security updates should also work. Note: PS/2 ports can get damaged by plugging/unplugging when system is powered on. So: best to only do that when power is off. Note: The CPU is required to include "SSE 4.2" for Win11. The free software CPU-Z can show if it's included with any particular CPU.
Thanks for the info! I wondered if such an upgrade was possible. I'm now rocking Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and enjoying it so far. Yeah I jumped the gun there, but I wasn't concerned since it was already acting broken lol
I tryed it on a Core2Duo Quad but the installation crashed. Win11 24H2 Rebooted the machine before it got to the install screen. So defenately unsupported. I will try a i7 4th gen. Also unsupported.
You cannot install 24H2 on a machine with a processor that does not support SSE4.2. The Rufus, registry edits, or Server installer options will not bypass this requirement.
It amazing how cheap theses workstations are now, about a 2 years ago I almost got one of theses. But I end up going with a Dell Precision T7000~ series. It had duel xenon processors, and I upgrade the ram to 196GB of DDR3 server ram. I was learning virtualization using Proxmox, and setting up Virtual machines with it. Shame i don't have it anymore, I kinda want to use it to setup a pfsense, with a squid proxy for fun.
That Win10 install looked like it had some form of character corruption. The weather/search bar in the taskbar had an unknown character (box with ones and zeroes).
There's no way I could have powered that on without taking it outside and blowing everything out first. I've run 24H2 on 2012 X79 hardware and it ran well. I haven't seen in a CRT monitor since XP. Cool seeing 11 on the CRT.
This work horse its the same i use everyday in house, its old but dependable, run windows 11 but dont support UEFI, just Bios, but can be supported using external USB drive with Intel UEFI upgraded to support NVME drive for system, Intel Xeon X5690 and 8GBx6 RAM (48GB), nvidia GTX1070, the original power supply died one year ago, and replaced by a new one with adaptor cause the pinout its not standar, im really love this machine.
5:11 - I think the biggest advantage of crappy, entry-level Quadro cards wasn't a possible superior stability of the cards themselves, but the fact they ran with the NVIDIA Quadro _drivers,_ which often were the only certified drivers to run with expensive software packages. I have one of those Z400s sitting next to me on the floor. It served me well for many, many years. I remember switching out the PSU first thing (yes, the non-standard ATX connector required some light soldering, but nothing that couldn't be done within a few minutes) so that I could run two gaming cards in it. I was sure the Z400 would be a good platform for SLI gaming because it has two PEG slots. Turned out the Z400's HP BIOS doesn't support SLI, so I had to run a software SLI emulator in order for my two IIRC GeForce 480s to work in SLI mode. Wonky at best, it did yield some performance gains in some games sometimes. The Z400 was my daily driver until fall '23. Its Xeon W3690 together with 24 GByte of RAM, an SSD & a GeForce 1080 made it fast enough for most workloads I put on it.
Flo, you don't need to reinstall Windows 11 on your main PC shown towards the end of the video. I have a PC running Windows 11 22H2 and did an in-place upgrade after burning the Windows 11 24H2 ISO with Rufus. The upgrade went without a hitch and I kept everything...worth trying...unless you just really want to start with a clean slate.
I actually didn't know you could do in-place from a USB stick like that more ya know I've just been using the chris titus winutil to make the USB I might do that again periodically.
My daily home PC are parts from Z240 (cpu, ram, mainboard) and Z440 (2 x quadro P4000 SLI), but on 2022 the Z240 board was dead, so I replaced it with a used Gigabyte one and a cheap rgb case😅.
It's always a shame that more manufacturers don't do the bare minimum and tint the blue LEDs. it costs fractions of fractions a penny to put a tinted sticker over them.
For reference that GT620 looks like it has a Dell serial number sticker. The little 2d barcode that probably has a format like CN-0xxxxx-00000-xxx-xxx-A01.
i JUST got rid of my z600, it was amazing and still could run OK and even game with a good gpu....i upgraded to a z840 FINALLY but i had that z600 for 10 years or so.....rock solid
You might have to install a program to force windows to not even recognize that there's anything more than one display mode. it can be done and it's not too crazy hard to do.
I have 3 HP 6005 Pro SFF systems that I use as Media Centers. I upgraded the memory to 16GB on the systems and added a GPU to handle AVI and other video file formats and have a bunch of movies on the system in use, the other 2 are backups. hopefully you can do the same with this one. upgrade it enough to handle W10 and to play video files. I don't recommend W11 as it has too many flaws in it. if windows stays flawed, then I'll change over to all linux based systems... Good luck with this machine... looks like a keeper!
These ones run Windows 11 great! I've noticed that you need to get the realtek driver from the hp support site for the speaker inside to work, I can't remember if it was an 8.1/8/7 driver but get whatever the newest OS one is. These old ones are great all they need is a burst of compressed air and a ssd and you're good to go. The only hardware I've had to swap out in the Z400 is the back fan, and I've had the ECC ram sticks go bad...usually they are over specced and have way more ram then needed, you just take the one stick out, grab a back fan out of another one....and you're good..both of those problems make you press a key to boot, very annoying.
@@themaritimegirl You are absolutely correct. I was thinking of Windows 10. However, I am pissed at Microsoft for installing Windows 11 without my permission so I have to reinstall Windows 10 soon. I will upgrade to Windows 12 when it becomes available. Remember, ever other Operating system sucks. lol
@@WildFire2028You still have a narrow window of time to roll back from 11 without having to start over. It was 30 days when windows 10 auto updated over 7 but Microsoft may have changed that.
@ Thanks for the heads up on the rollback but I want to make sure that there is not remnants of Windows 11 left behind if I rolled back to Windows 10. Already did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro and it seems to run allot better than I had Windows 10 Pro before. lol
That’s not FTP over HTTP. That’s your hard drive. That’s always been a neat trick for getting arround kiosk menus. If you can get to google you can get it to a file:\\ url and the machine will spill its guts onto the screen.
Would the GTX 770 fit? I think the PSU has only a single 6 pin power connector. Edit: if you can figure out how to get the GTX 770 running in it, it would be a great folding@home machine.
@@themaritimegirl The GTX770 should not be too power hungry. I even have a MSI GTX750 ti that does not have a power connector. So power over PCI-e slot. weird.
@@themaritimegirl the GTX 770 only pulls up to 250w on its own, the 475w PSU will be fine, esp since its a delta unit. (ive ran a SOC gtx 680 (also consumes 250w) on a 400w delta for a good while now, havent had any issues) edit: just googled the PSU, should have 2x 6 pin which can be adapted to 1x 8pin, and the 2 molex connectors can be adapted to 1x 6 pin, should definetly work fine, ive done similar setups before and they all work great.
@@thegeforce6625This only has the one 6-pin. Running Prime95 right now, the computer itself is using 270W of power without any load on the GPU. The GTX 770 would almost certainly overload the PSU once it we're doing a demanding task like folding :)
Hello. I was curious and I put the serial number into HP Support Assistant program. It seems that this workstation was newer reported into HP warranty system, it returns no data. But I may be wrong, if HP keeps the databases of their products separate by the continent (I’m from Europe). Just for information I’m using a HP workstation that is a generation older as your Z400. I use HP XW8400 workstation, produced in 2007. At the moment it’s running under Windows 10 and I still don’t have a feeling that it would need a replacement, despite the fact that I sometime do some serious CAD work on it. Keep the good work and thank you. Jože
i have a gigabyte x58-ud5 computer with same cpu. Monitor won't wake from sleep after 24h2 uodate. does your monitor wake? I tried different graphic cards and pci slots ,no luck
Sometimes using a USB in the back of the computer (on the motherboard itself) is required to boot from and you cannot use the front ports outside of the OS. Although I am not familiar with this particular work station you could have tried that to update the BIOS.
i bought an HP Z600 a fortnight ago to use as my pc for music production but sadly that generation of xeon doesnt have AVX instruction set thats needed for Most MIDI and DJuiced, Ableton et, so now used as a mediocre gaming rig as its dual 15yr old eons that are 6 core 6 threads and has 32gb EDDR4 and Quadro fx3800 which i replaced for gtx 1050 until i tried doing a fresh windows install and corrupted the system drive that made me go back to HP optiplex 5050 with I5 6500 and 16gb ddr4 and put the gtx 1050 back in there as it has NVME m.2 512gb boot drive.
Hey, I see that you are using an adapter for the VGA, have you attempted to change the resolution without it? Maybe using the lower class GPU as a VGA adapter
That particular adapter hasn't given me such issues before, but I suppose it could be the source of the issue 🤔 Edit: Adapter confirmed not the issue, as a newer GPU solved the issue.
It's a shame those hard drive docks in the 5.25 bays don't appear to have any fans. Any hard drives installed in those will probably cook themselves over time.
HP has ended support for these computers and most z-line computers end support with Windows-10 in October of 2025. I think HP wants to Recycle these computers but Microsoft won’t let them Die off. I run Win-10 and Win-11 on my HP z440.
It's sad that HP won't support these older machines with drivers and BIOS updates. Dell's website supports Dell computers back to when they were steam-powered. This is one reason why I don't dabble with HP machines anymore.
@themaritimegirl Noted. Windows 10 was not released until 2015. However, the upgrade from 7 or 8.1 was free for years. If an in-place upgrade were performed, the original username would remain unchanged. I've done dozens of these upgrades over many years as well as selling new HPs. The default username is "Owner." Of course, it's entirely possible you performed a clean install and also used that same username. Enjoy!
@@scgreek1114An upgrade would have retained the existing software, like the HP utilities. This had no software installed at all; it was a clean installation.
I don't think windows 11 LTSC has the same CPU requirements that the normal version does. So I do believe windows 11 hardware requirements in total BS.
May not be all Microsoft’s fault but they are the ones whose names are cursed when a windows machine blue screens. Weather they had any part in it or not. Look what they had to put up with after the entire crowdstrike incident. Windows has a reputation not as a slow cludgy mess. Everyone knows it is really solid these days. But they are dealing with malware and computers need to become far more secure than they are today. It’s all optics. They are attempting to create an image that thier operating system is as safe as a mac. When that security isn’t baked in silicon it has to be enforced by the operating system. meaning the operating system has to spend resources and cycles protecting itself against malware and crippling older machines. They said “No. this is enough enough lunacy. You will buy something built on a secure platform or be tossed to the wolves with no help from microsoft if you run into trouble.
Windows 11 actually does that until you name the device. I had one little Dev computer cyberdeck thing, and I drowned it in my backpack with my bottle of water by accident so I have to buy a new 1. I'll make a video of the replacement.
PS2 thing is a windows 10 issue, If it was set up using USB keyboard and mouse and then you add a PS2 keyboard and mouse then they won't work until windows connects to the internet and does its thing! It will happen on any system. Just boot it up allow windows to connect and do it's thing then reboot and then they will work. Good luck!
@@Roy-pro1 This is news to me if that's true. Historically PS/2 support was just a core component of any OS, regardless of what was used to install it. Interesting.
@@themaritimegirlthat's true PS/2 used to work straight away no need to install anything But it is quite possible with windows 8 and onward may not carry the support for PS/2 not 100% sure if that's the case but it would make sense as USB came the norm and motherboards stopped coming out with those ports Would be worth a test on that theory
Ok..... Wait ..... Wait .... Wait .... That thing has ps/2 ports. You sure it was built in 2010????? I was fairly sure everything was standardized on USB for keyboard and mouse by 2010..... Just checking...... Edit: that manufacture date is shocking!
The 2019 Dell Precision 3630 I showed in a video last year also has PS/2 ports. PS/2 stayed around on commercial-grade PCs long after it went away on consumer PCs.
I forgot to mention that this machine uses unbuffered ECC RAM.
Also, tonight the sound controller died right in front of me. I was using the computer when suddenly the speaker started emitting buzzing sounds. A few minutes later it went silent, and now neither it or any of the output jacks work. That would certainly explain the speaker sounding bad beforehand.
Have a happy new year themaritimegirl
Used to have an HP Z800 as my main PC. I miss how well it was built compared with my current cheaply made yet still rather expensive gaming case.
Boot block is part of your bios. Basically a bunch of magic numbers used to bring up the system and configure the hardware at post.
I love these HP Z workstations, in my current job and one of my previous ones I've worked with a few different models of them, in my current job we have some older HP Z240 Workstations which use Intel 6th gen i7s, and some newer HP Z2 G4 workstations which use Intel 8th gen i7s, and in the past I've worked with the gigantic HP Z820 workstations, which are dual-socket LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge Xeon based machines, so they could theoretically take two 8-core Xeon E5-2670 CPUs and up to 128GB of DDR3 ECC RAM. Ours were never configured that high of course, but I did piece together one from parts that had dual E5-2620 6-core Xeons, 64GB of RAM and dual Quadros, so still quite insane for a machine made in 2012. When we started to retire those in 2022, I really wanted one to use as my home server, but their sheer size and high power draw convinced me not to do that as cool as it would have been.
The CPU in your Z400 according to Intel is one of the fastest Xeons for that socket, only being beaten by the W3690. I'm guessing the bad benchmark scores are due to the newer version of PassMark that you ran, I believe PassMark 11 is a fair bit more demanding than PassMark 10, which is why I just stick with 10 for any machines I benchmark to keep things consistent when comparing results. The Z400 could also probably take up to 48GB of RAM if 8GB DIMMs are used, so still a pretty beefy machine for its time. It's not unheard of for organizations to keep these around for 8-10 years, we had our Z820s I mentioned earlier in service for 10 years before we retired them.
As for Windows 11, we are facing the same issue in our workplace, our Z240s are still perfectly fine for what we need to use them for, as they've gotten GPU upgrades to keep them relevant, however due to Windows 10 support ending in 10 months, we can't keep them in use in a professional environment. We've settled on some brand-new HP Z Rack workstations as their replacements, which the users remote into from their laptops, rather than directly using them at their desks. These are a very cool 1U rack design rather than a tower, so they're in our server room, since all they run is simulations, so they don't need direct connection to a monitor.
Don't PassMark scores stay consistent from version to version? I thought they were supposed to. But I neglected to remember that the score for my old main PC was with the CPU overclocked by a whole GHz :)
You're right though, going by the base scores this is actually the more powerful CPU, which I didn't expect.
You had me curious, so I ran PerformanceTest 10 as well. The scores are almost the same - 30 points lower on the CPU score, 80 points lower on the 3D score, and 30 points higher on the disk score. But the main score is 500 points lower?? And the percentiles are all different.
@@themaritimegirl ah okay that’s interesting, sounds like it’s just varying in the margin of error. Guess they’re consistent across versions of the benchmark. The more you know.
@JackStavris It makes sense because back in the day scores were 2 or 3 digits, and now today AMDs top-end stuff is pulling 6 digits. They would want the scores to remain consistent across versions so that you can accurately compare new and old hardware.
I'm such a sucker for these HP Z-series workstation computers, myself. Seeing you do a video on it is exceptionally awesome.
I had HP Z400, and two motherboard in a row died 😢. So I modified that case, and fit standard ATX motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R. I was able to salvage original CPU cooler, and I mad some extra holes to fit standard ATX powersupply Superflower Leadex Titanium 1600W, it was tight fit, and ofcourse, GeForce GTX 980Ti. I built it 2 years ago, and it is still working (because of Gigabyte motherboard), running Windows 7 for authentic performance. RAM is 24GB Kingston HyperX, and SSD is Gigabyte Aorus PCI Express x4 SSD, and I installed patched BIOS, to get NVMe running on it and bootable!
Still using an ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 board myself with a Xeon X5670 CPU and a GTX 980 GPU. Originally I was using an ASUS GTX 780 ti until the memory starting acting up in it and I got the 980 to replace it for $45. Runs just about everything I throw at it still! Those gen one systems were built like tanks! 👍👍
Im still using a Z400 with an Intel x5680 and a RTX2060 as my main computer XD
mine is intel X5690, also my main computer, its a beauty
So am I. These machines keep on working
2 z800's here :) currently put up. Still use a z620 as my workstation with Ubuntu Studio. z240 as a Batocera box.
Still running a Z420 with maxed out RAM as my Hyper-V Hypervisor/Homelab
There's a work-around for upgrading Win11 to 24H2 on a non 100% compliant machine. Use Rufus to prepare a 24H2 USB thumb drive configured to bypass the official system requirements. First, boot into the existing Win11, then plug in the USB drive & run the setup.exe on the USB drive. That should then allow upgrading to 24H2. The normal monthly security updates should also work. Note: PS/2 ports can get damaged by plugging/unplugging when system is powered on. So: best to only do that when power is off. Note: The CPU is required to include "SSE 4.2" for Win11. The free software CPU-Z can show if it's included with any particular CPU.
Thanks for the info! I wondered if such an upgrade was possible. I'm now rocking Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and enjoying it so far.
Yeah I jumped the gun there, but I wasn't concerned since it was already acting broken lol
I tryed it on a Core2Duo Quad but the installation crashed. Win11 24H2 Rebooted the machine before it got to the install screen. So defenately unsupported. I will try a i7 4th gen. Also unsupported.
You cannot install 24H2 on a machine with a processor that does not support SSE4.2. The Rufus, registry edits, or Server installer options will not bypass this requirement.
“OH my god it knows where i am. Go away. I regret doing that”. Got an audible chuckle out of me
It amazing how cheap theses workstations are now, about a 2 years ago I almost got one of theses. But I end up going with a Dell Precision T7000~ series. It had duel xenon processors, and I upgrade the ram to 196GB of DDR3 server ram. I was learning virtualization using Proxmox, and setting up Virtual machines with it. Shame i don't have it anymore, I kinda want to use it to setup a pfsense, with a squid proxy for fun.
Looking at computers from the early 2000s, makes me feel nostalgic for when I was still running Windows Vista and XP.
That Win10 install looked like it had some form of character corruption. The weather/search bar in the taskbar had an unknown character (box with ones and zeroes).
There's no way I could have powered that on without taking it outside and blowing everything out first. I've run 24H2 on 2012 X79 hardware and it ran well. I haven't seen in a CRT monitor since XP. Cool seeing 11 on the CRT.
This was pretty clean compared to a lot of computers that have come my way.
This work horse its the same i use everyday in house, its old but dependable, run windows 11 but dont support UEFI, just Bios, but can be supported using external USB drive with Intel UEFI upgraded to support NVME drive for system, Intel Xeon X5690 and 8GBx6 RAM (48GB), nvidia GTX1070, the original power supply died one year ago, and replaced by a new one with adaptor cause the pinout its not standar, im really love this machine.
I love installing windows 11 on everything. I forgot what windows 10 is like at this point 😇
5:11 - I think the biggest advantage of crappy, entry-level Quadro cards wasn't a possible superior stability of the cards themselves, but the fact they ran with the NVIDIA Quadro _drivers,_ which often were the only certified drivers to run with expensive software packages.
I have one of those Z400s sitting next to me on the floor. It served me well for many, many years. I remember switching out the PSU first thing (yes, the non-standard ATX connector required some light soldering, but nothing that couldn't be done within a few minutes) so that I could run two gaming cards in it. I was sure the Z400 would be a good platform for SLI gaming because it has two PEG slots. Turned out the Z400's HP BIOS doesn't support SLI, so I had to run a software SLI emulator in order for my two IIRC GeForce 480s to work in SLI mode. Wonky at best, it did yield some performance gains in some games sometimes.
The Z400 was my daily driver until fall '23. Its Xeon W3690 together with 24 GByte of RAM, an SSD & a GeForce 1080 made it fast enough for most workloads I put on it.
Flo, you don't need to reinstall Windows 11 on your main PC shown towards the end of the video. I have a PC running Windows 11 22H2 and did an in-place upgrade after burning the Windows 11 24H2 ISO with Rufus. The upgrade went without a hitch and I kept everything...worth trying...unless you just really want to start with a clean slate.
Thanks for the info! I wondered if such an upgrade was possible. I'm now rocking Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and enjoying it so far.
I actually didn't know you could do in-place from a USB stick like that
more ya know
I've just been using the chris titus winutil to make the USB I might do that again periodically.
My daily home PC are parts from Z240 (cpu, ram, mainboard) and Z440 (2 x quadro P4000 SLI), but on 2022 the Z240 board was dead, so I replaced it with a used Gigabyte one and a cheap rgb case😅.
About the RAM: HyperX is Kingston's gaming oriented products, that's the reason for the (decorative) heatsink on it.
It's always a shame that more manufacturers don't do the bare minimum and tint the blue LEDs. it costs fractions of fractions a penny to put a tinted sticker over them.
the locks on the drive sleds are easily pickable either by single pin picking them or a cheap tubular pick off the internet.
For reference that GT620 looks like it has a Dell serial number sticker. The little 2d barcode that probably has a format like CN-0xxxxx-00000-xxx-xxx-A01.
i JUST got rid of my z600, it was amazing and still could run OK and even game with a good gpu....i upgraded to a z840 FINALLY but i had that z600 for 10 years or so.....rock solid
You might have to install a program to force windows to not even recognize that there's anything more than one display mode. it can be done and it's not too crazy hard to do.
Of course it will!!!
I have 3 HP 6005 Pro SFF systems that I use as Media Centers. I upgraded the memory to 16GB on the systems and added a GPU to handle AVI and other video file formats and have a bunch of movies on the system in use, the other 2 are backups. hopefully you can do the same with this one. upgrade it enough to handle W10 and to play video files. I don't recommend W11 as it has too many flaws in it. if windows stays flawed, then I'll change over to all linux based systems... Good luck with this machine... looks like a keeper!
These ones run Windows 11 great! I've noticed that you need to get the realtek driver from the hp support site for the speaker inside to work, I can't remember if it was an 8.1/8/7 driver but get whatever the newest OS one is. These old ones are great all they need is a burst of compressed air and a ssd and you're good to go. The only hardware I've had to swap out in the Z400 is the back fan, and I've had the ECC ram sticks go bad...usually they are over specced and have way more ram then needed, you just take the one stick out, grab a back fan out of another one....and you're good..both of those problems make you press a key to boot, very annoying.
Speaker worked out of the gate, as could be seen in the video.
I think when you enter a license key, it will unlock those features such as the screen size and refresh rate.
If that were the problem they would be greyed out completely. Newer GPU solved the issue.
@@themaritimegirl You are absolutely correct. I was thinking of Windows 10. However, I am pissed at Microsoft for installing Windows 11 without my permission so I have to reinstall Windows 10 soon. I will upgrade to Windows 12 when it becomes available. Remember, ever other Operating system sucks. lol
@@WildFire2028You still have a narrow window of time to roll back from 11 without having to start over. It was 30 days when windows 10 auto updated over 7 but Microsoft may have changed that.
@ Thanks for the heads up on the rollback but I want to make sure that there is not remnants of Windows 11 left behind if I rolled back to Windows 10. Already did a clean install of Windows 10 Pro and it seems to run allot better than I had Windows 10 Pro before. lol
ive got a Hp dc5800 MD or micro tower it still works but im using a dell OptiPlex 9020 MD with 32 gigs of ram core i7 4790. My HP has a quad core 9505
That’s not FTP over HTTP. That’s your hard drive. That’s always been a neat trick for getting arround kiosk menus. If you can get to google you can get it to a file:\\ url and the machine will spill its guts onto the screen.
I was just talking about the style of the UI, not the actual protocol in use.
Would the GTX 770 fit? I think the PSU has only a single 6 pin power connector.
Edit: if you can figure out how to get the GTX 770 running in it, it would be a great folding@home machine.
I'm sure it will slot in, but the power supply doesn't have the capacity for it unfortunately.
@@themaritimegirl The GTX770 should not be too power hungry. I even have a MSI GTX750 ti that does not have a power connector. So power over PCI-e slot. weird.
@bonno666 The 750 Ti only needs a 300W power supply. The 770 needs a 600W, or at least a very good 550W.
@@themaritimegirl the GTX 770 only pulls up to 250w on its own, the 475w PSU will be fine, esp since its a delta unit. (ive ran a SOC gtx 680 (also consumes 250w) on a 400w delta for a good while now, havent had any issues)
edit: just googled the PSU, should have 2x 6 pin which can be adapted to 1x 8pin, and the 2 molex connectors can be adapted to 1x 6 pin, should definetly work fine, ive done similar setups before and they all work great.
@@thegeforce6625This only has the one 6-pin.
Running Prime95 right now, the computer itself is using 270W of power without any load on the GPU. The GTX 770 would almost certainly overload the PSU once it we're doing a demanding task like folding :)
Hello.
I was curious and I put the serial number into HP Support Assistant program. It seems that this workstation was newer reported into HP warranty system, it returns no data. But I may be wrong, if HP keeps the databases of their products separate by the continent (I’m from Europe).
Just for information I’m using a HP workstation that is a generation older as your Z400. I use HP XW8400 workstation, produced in 2007. At the moment it’s running under Windows 10 and I still don’t have a feeling that it would need a replacement, despite the fact that I sometime do some serious CAD work on it.
Keep the good work and thank you.
Jože
The bios wants the USB to be fat32
Hey! Just found your channel, are you from the Canadian maritimes? Im from BC.
@@cliffordreynolds1835 New Brunswick :)
@themaritimegirl Cool, always good to find a new tech channel!
@cliffordreynolds1835 Thanks so much for watching!
I would choose Fedora server OS or Ubuntu Server / Desktop over WinOS 11. What I am concerned about installing Linux distro is the NVIDIA Driver.
I haz one. It supports Triple Channel Memories! Annnd, also stuffed a Xeon L5640 for the latest and greatest microcode stuff...
oh yeah, "Recovery of an MMO junkie" computer build scene ruclips.net/video/L_La4dVXKUM/видео.html looks like a later gen HP though, but still, lol!
@@zarkeh3013Can it? Oh, neat!
i have a gigabyte x58-ud5 computer with same cpu. Monitor won't wake from sleep after 24h2 uodate. does your monitor wake? I tried different graphic cards and pci slots ,no luck
No such problem here. Might be a monitor issue?
@@themaritimegirl Tried different monitors. Thanks for reply. something happened with 24h2.wierd
Sometimes using a USB in the back of the computer (on the motherboard itself) is required to boot from and you cannot use the front ports outside of the OS. Although I am not familiar with this particular work station you could have tried that to update the BIOS.
i bought an HP Z600 a fortnight ago to use as my pc for music production but sadly that generation of xeon doesnt have AVX instruction set thats needed for Most MIDI and DJuiced, Ableton et, so now used as a mediocre gaming rig as its dual 15yr old eons that are 6 core 6 threads and has 32gb EDDR4 and Quadro fx3800 which i replaced for gtx 1050 until i tried doing a fresh windows install and corrupted the system drive that made me go back to HP optiplex 5050 with I5 6500 and 16gb ddr4 and put the gtx 1050 back in there as it has NVME m.2 512gb boot drive.
Hey, I see that you are using an adapter for the VGA, have you attempted to change the resolution without it?
Maybe using the lower class GPU as a VGA adapter
That particular adapter hasn't given me such issues before, but I suppose it could be the source of the issue 🤔
Edit: Adapter confirmed not the issue, as a newer GPU solved the issue.
It's a shame those hard drive docks in the 5.25 bays don't appear to have any fans. Any hard drives installed in those will probably cook themselves over time.
It's a 1366 socket system - why not?
HP has ended support for these computers and most z-line computers end support with Windows-10 in October of 2025. I think HP wants to Recycle these computers but Microsoft won’t let them Die off. I run Win-10 and Win-11 on my HP z440.
It's sad that HP won't support these older machines with drivers and BIOS updates. Dell's website supports Dell computers back to when they were steam-powered. This is one reason why I don't dabble with HP machines anymore.
Will it play Crysis?
The default user name from the factory on all older HP computers is "Owner."
@@scgreek1114 But this is clearly not the factory OS install, nor was it an upgrade ;)
@themaritimegirl Noted. Windows 10 was not released until 2015. However, the upgrade from 7 or 8.1 was free for years. If an in-place upgrade were performed, the original username would remain unchanged.
I've done dozens of these upgrades over many years as well as selling new HPs. The default username is "Owner."
Of course, it's entirely possible you performed a clean install and also used that same username.
Enjoy!
@@scgreek1114An upgrade would have retained the existing software, like the HP utilities. This had no software installed at all; it was a clean installation.
easy question to answer. of course it can
If the MB is max to 32GB RAM with 1 or 2 slot, might be can gaming.
I don't think windows 11 LTSC has the same CPU requirements that the normal version does. So I do believe windows 11 hardware requirements in total BS.
You news the windows key to unlock many things
If that were the reason the options would be greyed out completely. A newer GPU solved the issue.
May not be all Microsoft’s fault but they are the ones whose names are cursed when a windows machine blue screens. Weather they had any part in it or not. Look what they had to put up with after the entire crowdstrike incident. Windows has a reputation not as a slow cludgy mess. Everyone knows it is really solid these days. But they are dealing with malware and computers need to become far more secure than they are today. It’s all optics. They are attempting to create an image that thier operating system is as safe as a mac. When that security isn’t baked in silicon it has to be enforced by the operating system. meaning the operating system has to spend resources and cycles protecting itself against malware and crippling older machines. They said “No. this is enough enough lunacy. You will buy something built on a secure platform or be tossed to the wolves with no help from microsoft if you run into trouble.
i got windows 11 to run on a acer aspire xc100
Windows 11 works even on Z210
Windows 11 actually does that until you name the device. I had one little Dev computer cyberdeck thing, and I drowned it in my backpack with my bottle of water by accident so I have to buy a new 1. I'll make a video of the replacement.
@@hellhound-si5oz Does what?
PS2 thing is a windows 10 issue, If it was set up using USB keyboard and mouse and then you add a PS2 keyboard and mouse then they won't work until windows connects to the internet and does its thing! It will happen on any system. Just boot it up allow windows to connect and do it's thing then reboot and then they will work. Good luck!
@@Roy-pro1 This is news to me if that's true. Historically PS/2 support was just a core component of any OS, regardless of what was used to install it. Interesting.
@@themaritimegirlthat's true PS/2 used to work straight away no need to install anything
But it is quite possible with windows 8 and onward may not carry the support for PS/2 not 100% sure if that's the case but it would make sense as USB came the norm and motherboards stopped coming out with those ports
Would be worth a test on that theory
DVD-ROM... installable windows 11 disc. And 16 GB DDR 4 plus 8 cores CPU - if you want actual result (not 4 fps).
Not sure what you're trying to communicate.
@themaritimegirl install upon Pentium II with 4 CD-ROM drives. Microsoft will update CRT support.
37 Pounds, it must have massive hdd's in it..
Watch the video and see if you're right...😉
Bro what r u talking about, i have dell optiplex 780 and i use win11 on it easily 😐
@@AadiLMughal I never said you couldn't, 'bro'.
23H2 or 24H2?
Ok..... Wait ..... Wait .... Wait .... That thing has ps/2 ports. You sure it was built in 2010????? I was fairly sure everything was standardized on USB for keyboard and mouse by 2010..... Just checking......
Edit: that manufacture date is shocking!
The 2019 Dell Precision 3630 I showed in a video last year also has PS/2 ports. PS/2 stayed around on commercial-grade PCs long after it went away on consumer PCs.
My AM4 machine with a Ryzen processor has a combo PS/2 keyboard/mouse port.
its the monitor is probably max to 1024x768
@@herberteales4677 1280x1024
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@@TheJuanvisuhabla doctor para cuando algo así en tu canal
@@dkhl02 ya hubo uno hace tiempo, mi equipo principal es justo un Z400 XD
Linux
When does time does not support PS2 keyboard and mouse
@@nightraven3006 I assume you meant to say Windows 10 doesn't support it? It does, as does 11. PS/2 is practically OS-agnostic.
I have a PS/2 mouse on my AMD FX motherboard, and Windows 11 23H2 runs fine.
why would u want to run windows 11 - it is an abomination.
i love usb 1.1 and 2.0 speeds
Dear Canadians, for reference, on this side of the pond,,,,,, IT'S ZEEEEEEE, NOT ZED!
And on this side, both are used :)
Canada isn't across the pond. In some places it's across a river or a Great Lake, but there is a long land border between the U.S & Canada.
install hp oem windows 7 ultimate best os ever!
But don't connect to the internet, or face the possibilities of malware &/or exploits.