HP z230 and E3V4

[Louisnight]

Hi,



I have a HP Z230 sff and a E3 1285v4. They all test good when use appropriate hardware(Booting Windows to Go. 4th gen I5 on z230, 1285v4 with a z97 board).



But will not boot when I put them together. The machine beeps 5 short time with power led blinking red, the pattern repeat itself.



The bios had been updated to HP's lastest version which can be found here.



https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/sel...on/5367825

[DeathBringer]

Current BIOS has support for Haswell only.

[Louisnight]

I just didn't think it will go so catastrophically wrong. Once I tested 4980hq with elitedesk 800 g1, it only pop up a error message about missing microcode update or something, and press f1 the system just continue working until next boot. I think those processor just close enough, but didn't.

[DeathBringer]

i7-4980HQ is Crystal Well. You can use it too.

[Louisnight]

Is there any way to solve this? I just wanna support ecc memory. use crystal well on the workstation or put the e3 in z97 won't enable ecc functionality.

[DeathBringer]

Is there any way to solve this?

There is no solution. You can use Xeon 1200 v3 series for ECC. But you can't use cheap registered memory with any CPUs.