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HP Z210 Convertible Minitower-Workstation User Manual

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Transferring files and settings to your Windows workstation ......................................... 26

Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux .......................................................................................... 27

Verifying hardware compatibility .............................................................................. 27
Installing from RHEL optical media ............................................................................. 27
Installing with the HP driver CD ................................................................................. 27

Setting up Novell SLED ........................................................................................................... 28

Setting up SLED on preloaded systems ....................................................................... 28
Installing from SLED optical media ............................................................................. 28
Installing with the HP driver CD ................................................................................. 28

Updating the workstation ........................................................................................................ 29

Updating the workstation after first boot ..................................................................... 29
Upgrading the BIOS ................................................................................................ 29

Determining current BIOS .......................................................................... 29
Upgrading BIOS ...................................................................................... 30

Upgrading device drivers ......................................................................................... 30

5 Restoring the operating system ....................................................................................... 31

Restore method ...................................................................................................................... 31
Ordering backup software ...................................................................................................... 32
Restoring Windows 7 ............................................................................................................. 32

Ordering the HP Recovery Manager media ................................................................ 32
Restoring the operating system .................................................................................. 32

Restoring Novell SLED ............................................................................................................ 33

Creating restore media ............................................................................................ 33

6 Preparing for component installation .............................................................................. 34

Disassembly and installation preparation .................................................................................. 34
Preparing the workstation for component installation .................................................................. 34

7 Installing memory .......................................................................................................... 38

Supported memory configurations ............................................................................................ 38
Installing a DIMM .................................................................................................................. 39

8 Installing PCI/PCIe devices .............................................................................................. 41

Expansion card slot identification ............................................................................................. 41
Power limitations for graphics cards ......................................................................................... 42
Installing an expansion card .................................................................................................... 42

9 Installing hard disk drives .............................................................................................. 44

HDD configuration ................................................................................................................. 44
Installing a hard disk drive ...................................................................................................... 45

Installing an HDD in an HP Z210 CMT Workstation .................................................... 45

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