Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product HP Z800 Avid Technology
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Avid Configuration Guidelines HP Z800 Dual Quad-Core CPU Workstation Symphony / Media Composer / Newscutter 1.) HP Z800 AVID Qualified System Specification: - Microsoft® Windows Vista Business 64-bit Edition (SP1 / SP2) - Dual Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® 5570 Proce s sors @ 2.
Page 2 of 9 Joe Conforti – Avid Technology – July 24th, 2 009 REV A1 AVID qualified Hardware / Shared Storage Qualified / Supported Minimum Version S/W Mojo DX Yes MC / Symphony v3.5.4 Newscutter 7.5.4 Nitris DX Yes MC / Symphony v3.5.4 Newscutter 7.
Page 3 of 9 Joe Conforti – Avid Technology – July 24th, 2 009 REV A1 4.) Slot Configuration: DX Hardware 1394 Mojo - SDI Hardware Slot # Electrical Mechanical 1 x4 PCI-E Gen 2 x8 Avid HIB, DX Inte.
6.) Utilization of embedded (on-board ) 1394 ports Configuration On-board 1394 utilization for Camera / Deck / Disk Drive support On-board 1394 utilization for 1394 Mojo-SDI H/W support 1394 Mojo-SDI H/W Yes - Supports 1394 Deck / Camera / Disk Drive Not supported.
7.) Configuration Issues: D/X har dware con figs – Use only the “Active” version HIB (AVID part number 7030-20084 -01) Passive versi on HIB (AVID part num ber 7030-30021-01) shoul d not be used.
Page 6 of 9 Joe Conforti – Avid Technology – July 24th, 2 009 REV A1 Qualified Avid system BIOS version(s): (As of this writing): If the Z800 has BIOS version 1.05 or earlier installed, it is mandatory that the BIOS be updated to an “AVID Qualified” BIOS.
ATTO UL5D issue: When an ATTO UL5D PCI -E u320 SCSI controller is installed in slot #5, the UL5D BIOS must be disabled or the following warning may be reported during s ystem boot: (Also t he UL5D BIOS must be disabled fo r proper o peration when connected to an AVID VideoRAID RTR u320 SCSI).
8.) Nvidia FX 4800 monitor connectivity: The new generation Nvidia F X 4800 gr aphics card has a single DVI port an d t wo Display-Port ports (Important: Display-ports are not HDMI ports, at first glanc e they do l ook very similar to HDMI ports) The HP Z800 inclu des o ne Display- Port-to-DVI adapter.
Page 9 of 9 Joe Conforti – Avid Technology – July 24th, 2 009 REV A1 10.) Serial Port Deck Control: The HP Z800 workstation doe s have an embedded serial po rt. The embedded serial-port has bee n qualified by Avid and will maintain frame accuracy in Avid environment s.
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