- Apr 7, 2012
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Mates,
I use an HP z420 for 3D modeling and an HP z620 (dual CPU) for simulation and rendering.
As these two system use the same BIOS, the recovery software with OS is the same disk, and both systems run on Quadro GPU's, it seemed that I might be able to simply move the HP Z Turbo Drive (Samsung SM951 M.2) from the z620 to the z420. The principal difference in the two systems' drive department is that the z620 is all GPT and the z420 is all MBR partitioning. The Z Turbo was recently set up with updated software while the z420 drive was set up in 2015 and full of weedy programs and errors, and 15% fragmented.
And this did work- at first. I disconnected the Intel 730 and WD Black drives in the z420, plugged in the Z turbo Drive and it booted into Windows and all the programs ran. However, when I reconnected the Intel and WD drives, the z420 would not boot, with an error message, to the effect that the boot disk was GPT formatted and Legacy Boot was not supported.
In the z620 BIOS, the Z-Turbo was listed in the UEFI devices, but in the z420 it is generically mentioned as "M.2Slot4".
> Can the Z-Turbo be moved in BIOS from Legacy to the UEFI devices category?
> Or, is the only solution to try a lossless GPT to MBR conversion on the Z Turbo?
> Or, reinstall everything to the Z-Turbo while installed in the z420?
In the meantime I also tried cloning the Z-Turbo to a Samsung 850 Evo- which produced the same error message. As It has a C: drive whenever I put it in a system, it tried to boot from it, so I'll have to reformat it running on Win PE.
Thanks!
BambiBoom
CAD / 3D Modeling / Graphic Design:
HP z420 (2015) (Rev 3) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 (6-core @ 3.7 / 4.0GHz) / 32GB DDR3 -1866 ECC RAM / Quadro K4200 (4GB) / Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI + Intel 730 480GB (9SSDSC2BP480G4R5) + Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card + Logitech z2300 2.1 speakers > 600W PSU> > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit >> 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)
[ Passmark Rating = 5581 > CPU= 14226 / 2D= 838 / 3D= 4694 / Mem= 2777 / Disk= 11559] [6.12.16] Single-Thread Mark = 2098
[Cinebench R15 > CPU = 1031cb / Single Core = 142 cb / OpenGL= 127.39 fps / MP Ratio = 7.24x] 3.2.17
[FryBench: 3:24 /Efficiency 2177.13] 3.11.17
Analysis / Simulation / Rendering:
HP z620 (2012) (Rev 3) 2X Xeon E5-2690 (8-core @ 2.9 / 3.8GHz) / 64GB DDR3-1600 ECC reg) / Quadro K2200 (4GB) + Tesla M2090 (6GB) / HP Z Turbo Drive (256GB) + Samsung 850 Evo 250GB + Seagate Constellation ES.3 (1TB) / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card + Logitech z313 2.1 speakers / 800W / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > > HP 2711x (27" 1980 X 1080)
[ Passmark System Rating= 5675 / CPU= 22625 / 2D= 815 / 3D = 3580 / Mem = 2522 / Disk = 12640 ] 9.25.16 Single Thread Mark = 1903
[ Cinebench R15: CPU = 2209 cb / Single core 130 cb / OpenGL= 119.23 fps / MP Ratio 16.84x] 10.31.16
I use an HP z420 for 3D modeling and an HP z620 (dual CPU) for simulation and rendering.
As these two system use the same BIOS, the recovery software with OS is the same disk, and both systems run on Quadro GPU's, it seemed that I might be able to simply move the HP Z Turbo Drive (Samsung SM951 M.2) from the z620 to the z420. The principal difference in the two systems' drive department is that the z620 is all GPT and the z420 is all MBR partitioning. The Z Turbo was recently set up with updated software while the z420 drive was set up in 2015 and full of weedy programs and errors, and 15% fragmented.
And this did work- at first. I disconnected the Intel 730 and WD Black drives in the z420, plugged in the Z turbo Drive and it booted into Windows and all the programs ran. However, when I reconnected the Intel and WD drives, the z420 would not boot, with an error message, to the effect that the boot disk was GPT formatted and Legacy Boot was not supported.
In the z620 BIOS, the Z-Turbo was listed in the UEFI devices, but in the z420 it is generically mentioned as "M.2Slot4".
> Can the Z-Turbo be moved in BIOS from Legacy to the UEFI devices category?
> Or, is the only solution to try a lossless GPT to MBR conversion on the Z Turbo?
> Or, reinstall everything to the Z-Turbo while installed in the z420?
In the meantime I also tried cloning the Z-Turbo to a Samsung 850 Evo- which produced the same error message. As It has a C: drive whenever I put it in a system, it tried to boot from it, so I'll have to reformat it running on Win PE.
Thanks!
BambiBoom
CAD / 3D Modeling / Graphic Design:
HP z420 (2015) (Rev 3) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 (6-core @ 3.7 / 4.0GHz) / 32GB DDR3 -1866 ECC RAM / Quadro K4200 (4GB) / Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI + Intel 730 480GB (9SSDSC2BP480G4R5) + Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card + Logitech z2300 2.1 speakers > 600W PSU> > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit >> 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)
[ Passmark Rating = 5581 > CPU= 14226 / 2D= 838 / 3D= 4694 / Mem= 2777 / Disk= 11559] [6.12.16] Single-Thread Mark = 2098
[Cinebench R15 > CPU = 1031cb / Single Core = 142 cb / OpenGL= 127.39 fps / MP Ratio = 7.24x] 3.2.17
[FryBench: 3:24 /Efficiency 2177.13] 3.11.17
Analysis / Simulation / Rendering:
HP z620 (2012) (Rev 3) 2X Xeon E5-2690 (8-core @ 2.9 / 3.8GHz) / 64GB DDR3-1600 ECC reg) / Quadro K2200 (4GB) + Tesla M2090 (6GB) / HP Z Turbo Drive (256GB) + Samsung 850 Evo 250GB + Seagate Constellation ES.3 (1TB) / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card + Logitech z313 2.1 speakers / 800W / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > > HP 2711x (27" 1980 X 1080)
[ Passmark System Rating= 5675 / CPU= 22625 / 2D= 815 / 3D = 3580 / Mem = 2522 / Disk = 12640 ] 9.25.16 Single Thread Mark = 1903
[ Cinebench R15: CPU = 2209 cb / Single core 130 cb / OpenGL= 119.23 fps / MP Ratio 16.84x] 10.31.16
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