this just recovered my two z400 to proxmox servers.. great work man.. had one gpu that too faulty.. this trick saved and revived two machines from dead
So with this setting does the computer use a video card IF you put one in,,,, or do you have to re-upload the bios config in order to activate video output ? It will b great if this setting just stops the computer from complaining when there is no vid card. .. and Thanks for Sharing this tip. I imagine it was not easy to dig this up
You don't need to touch the BIOS anymore. It will boot with or without a GPU, and of course it will output video signal if the card is in. It wasn't hard to find it but I did have to search through HP support forums. You're welcome.
i just picked up one of this today z600 and i'm going to run it headless like you did.. does that mean i can use the x16 pcie slots for extra expansion cards?
@@georgemuiruri9933 Your hardware may be slightly different. Check your RAM. While W10 isn't officially supported, I've reinstalled it several times due to replacing HDDs and RAM and it never froze. I've had it running for over 1 month multiple times and not a single freeze. My even older Dell T5500 used to randomly freeze all the time and I could never figure out the cause.
I managed to get this done, seeminly the machine boots (z440), but esxi won't appear on the network. Is there anything to be set? It wasn't installed headless, but really would like to spare the FirePro W5100
I believe the Z*40 have UEFI rather than this old BIOS so I suppose the configuration and how it's set is much different. This is the only HP workstation I've had so I really don't know how to help with yours. I've never configured ESXi either.
Can I modify thermal fan speed with this? Let’s say right now my rear fans run at 1500 rpm. Iopen bios config in notepad. Adding 6 more underscores each option. Will it give more fine tuned speed control?
I don't know, try it. That part looks just like the idle fan speed that you can already set in BIOS so I don't think it has anything to do with fine tuning the fan speed.
It should be supported but it's hard to tell if all versions of the utility support all workstations. It has also recently been discontinued but I updated the download link in the description.
That is a really strange behavior. I doubt it's the video card. You should check your power supply, see the manual, and explain your problem somewhere on HP's forums.
