HP Xw4400 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Assembly Instructions

Product Items/Features
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Blank box or unlisted means the com
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onent is NOT su
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RH EL DT 5.4 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. • •
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit • •
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) • •
Hyperthreading • •
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 • •
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 • •
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800
ATI v3700 PCI-E • •
ATI v5700 PCI-E • •
ATI v7750 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB
Maximum 16GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives
All Supported SSD disk drives • •
All Supported SATA disk drives • •
All Supported USB Drive Keys • •
Network Cards (no modem support)
Intel Pro 1000 CT Gigibit PCI • •
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Intel 82578DM Gigabit Ethernet 2 2
Onboard Audio • •
Onboard SATA Raid 5 5
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers 6 6
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 5 5
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive • •
HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW 4 4
HP BD-RE (writer) • •
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 • •
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 • •
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB ••
HP Standard Keyboard, USB • •
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 7 7
All supported monitors • •
footnote 8 - Hyperthreading is supported on all platforms when the processor allows it.
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
Z200 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL5.4 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English,
AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/z200 (substitute correct platform name);
Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 3 - 295 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is not supported on SATA drives.
footnote 6 - The z200 can support up to 3 SATA drives.
footnote 7 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 4.8 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.3 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Hyperthreading •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
ATI v3700 PCI-E •••
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 16GB 16GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 555
All Supported SSD disk drives •••
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5761 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 CT Gigibit PCI •••
Intel NC360T PCIe Dual Port Gigibit NIC •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5764 10/100/1000 222
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA Raid 666
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card 666
LSI 8888 ELP 666
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers •••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW 444
HP BD-RE (writer) •••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 ••8
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 ••8
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB ••8
HP Standard Keyboard, USB ••8
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 889
All supported monitors •••
footnote 9 - Hyperthreading is supported on platforms when the processor allows it. There are one or two low-end processors which don't support turbo mode or hyperthreading.
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
Z400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5.3 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English,
AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7", "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for SuSE Linux Enterpise Desktop 11" ISO image
s
http://www.hp.com/support/z400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 4 or later, Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only) and the LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 7 - The xw4600 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 4.8 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.3or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software •••
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Hyperthreading •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
ATI v3700 PCI-E •••
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 24GB 24GB 24GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 555
All Supported SSD disk drives •••
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5761 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 CT Gigibit PCI •••
Intel NC360T PCIe Dual Port Gigibit NIC •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5764 10/100/1000 •••
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA Raid 555
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card 555
LSI 8888 ELP 555
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 555
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW 444
HP BD-RE (writer) •••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB •••
HP Standard Keyboard, USB •••
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 888
All supported monitors •••
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-Engli
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7", "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for SuSE Linux Enterpise Desktop 11" ISO images
f
http://www.hp.com/support/z600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 7 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 8 - Hyperthreading is supported on platforms when the processor allows it. There are one or two low-end processors which don't support turbo mode or hyperthreading.
Z600 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5.3 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 4 or later, Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only) and the LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 4.8 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.3 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Hyperthreading •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 •••
Tesla C1060 999
ATI v3700 PCI-E •••
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 96GB 96GB 96GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 666
All Supported SSD disk drives •••
All Supported SATA disk drives 666
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5764 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 CT Gigibit PCI •••
Intel NC360T PCIe Dual Port Gigibit NIC •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5764 10/100/1000 •••
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid 555
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
LSI 8888 ELP 555
Hardware Raid 555
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x Super Multi DVD+RW 444
HP BD-RE (writer) •••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB •••
HP Standard Keyboard, USB •••
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 777
All supported monitors •••
footnote 9 - To check which configurations are supported with Tesla C1060, please visit the online version of the HW Matrx at http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
Z800 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5.3 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-Engli
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7", "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for SuSE Linux Enterpise Desktop 11" ISO images
f
http://www.hp.com/support/z800 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 4 or later, Red Hat EL 5 Desktop or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 8 - Hyperthreading is supported on platforms when the processor allows it. There are one or two low-end processors which don't support turbo mode or hyperthreading.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1,). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 7 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 •••
ATI v3700 PCI-E •••
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 8GB 8GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 555
All Supported SSD disk drives •••
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 222
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA Raid 666
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card •••
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers •••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo •••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 444
HP BD-RE (writer) •••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 •••
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB •••
HP Standard Keyboard, USB •••
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 888
All supported monitors •••
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English,
AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4600 (substitute correct platform name);
Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 7 - The xw4600 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw4600 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4 Update 5 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features
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Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orte
d
RH EL WS 3 U8 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL WS 4 U5 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
HP workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••••
All Supported Processors
Hyperthreading
Single-Core Opteron ••••
Dual-core Opeteron (1.8 GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.6Ghz, and 2.8GHz) ••••
Quad core
Opeteron
(2.1GHz,
2.2GHz,
2.3GHz,
2.4GHz,
2.5GHz,
2.7GHz,
2.8GHz, 2.9GHz, 3.1GHz) 11 11 11
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 9999
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 •••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) ••••
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCI-E
ATI v3350 PCI-E
ATI v7200 PCI-E
ATI v3700 PCI-E •••
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 5555
All Supported SSD disk drives
All Supported SATA disk drives 5555
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••••
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI ••••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN eth0 - Nvidia ••••
Onboard LAN eth1 - Nvidia ••••
Onboard Audio 8888
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid 6666
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
LSI 8344 666
Hardware Raid 666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 4444
HP BD-RE (Writer) ••••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 ••••
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 ••••
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB ••••
HP Standard Keyboard, USB ••••
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 10 10 10 10
All supported monitors ••••
footnote 9 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 10 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 11 - Nvidia Drivers (169.17/173.14/177.61) do not work on RHEL4.x and 5.x 32bit. Nvidia Drivers (169.17/173.14/177.61) will work on RHEL4.x and 5.x 64bit. Nvidia Driver 177.82 or newer will work on both RHEL4.x and RHEL5.x (32/64bit)
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 7 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 8 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
xw9400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English,
AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download.
See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 4.6 or later
(x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.1 or later (x86 & x86_64)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) ••
Hyperthreading
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Gra
p
hics Card ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 29
0
••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 29
5
••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 ••
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512
Maximum 128GB 128GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 6 6
All Supported SATA disk drives 6 6
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••
Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI ••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 ••
Onboard Audio ••
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid 55
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
LSI 8888 ELP 55
Hardware Raid 55
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 44
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 77
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 77
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 88
All supported monitors ••
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release
Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ
Ja
p
an
,
AB2 China
(
PRC
),
AB4 Sin
g
a
p
ore/ Mala
y
sia
,
ABZ Ital
y,
AB5 Hon
g
Kon
g,
ACF Ja
p
an-En
g
lish
,
ACJ India-En
g
l
i
xw8600 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.5 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not
supported.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1,). SATA Raid is not supported.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 4.6 or later
(x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.1 or later (x86 & x86_64)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) ••
Hyperthreading
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 29
0
••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 29
5
••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 ••
ATI v3700 PCI-E
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E
ATI RV560 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512
Maximum 32GB 32GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 6 6
All Supported SATA disk drives 6 6
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••
Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI ••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 ••
Onboard Audio ••
Onboard SATA Raid 55
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card ••
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 55
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 44
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 77
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 77
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 88
All supported monitors ••
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
xw6600 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.5 (x86 & x86_64) and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan,
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64) SLED11 or later (x86_64)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS450 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX380 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX580 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 •••
ATI v3700 PCI-E
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E •••
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E •••
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 8GB 8GB 8GB
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw4600 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4 Update 5 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64), and SLED 11 (x86 & x86_64)
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 555
All Supported SSD disk drives •••
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 222
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA Raid 666
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card •••
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers •••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Hardware Raid 666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo •••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 444
HP BD-RE (writer) •••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 888
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 888
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 888
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 888
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 999
All supported monitors •••
footnote 8 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering SLED 11 64bit preload on xw4600and z400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 4 - Linuxgrowisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later and SLED11 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered onthe preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives onthe HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 9 - For more info about Linuxdriver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/
Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux- HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux4.8", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux- HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux5.3" ISO images
from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 7 - The xw4600 can support up to 4 SATA drives, inorder to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay ConversionKit for each drive.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 4.6 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.1 or later (x86 & x86_64)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••
Software
Remote Graphics Software
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) ••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
ATI x1250 Onboard Graphics ••
No Graphics Card ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600
ATI v5600 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
1GB 1GB
Maximum 4GB 4GB
xw4550 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL4.6 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5.1 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
Hard Disks
All Supported SATA disk drives 55
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 ••
Onboard Audio ••
Onboard SATA Raid 66
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••
HP 16x dual-la
y
er DVD+RW 44
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 77
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 77
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 77
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 88
All supported monitors ••
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in
htt
p
://www.h
p
.com/su
pp
ort/linux
_
user
_
manual.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the
p
reload. Use SATA or SCSI
,
not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL
(
FreeDos
)
confi
g
uration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is not supported on the xw4550.
footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/
Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan
-
English, ACJ India
-
Engli
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO
images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4550 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";
footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 3 U8 or later
(
x86
)
RH EL WS 3 U8 or later
(
EM64T
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later
(
x86 & EM64T
)
RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86
_
64
)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••••
All Supported Processors
Hyperthreading
Single-Core Opteron ••••
Dual-core Opeteron (1.8 GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.6Ghz, and 2.8GHz) ••••
Quad-core Opeteron (2.1GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.7GHz,
2.8GHz, 2.9GHz, 3.1GHz) 12 12
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 ••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX370
NVIDIA Quadro FX380
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX570
NVIDIA Quadro FX580
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700
NVIDIA Quadro FX1800
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3800
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 10 10 10 10
NVIDIA Quadro FX4800 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX5800 ••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) ••••
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCI-E
ATI v3350 PCI-E
ATI v7200 PCI-E
ATI 3700 PCI E
xw9400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
ATI
v
3700
PCI
-
E
ATI v5600 PCI-E
ATI v5700 PCI-E
ATI v7700 PCI-E
ATI v7750 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 5555
All Supported SSD disk drives
All Supported SATA disk drives 5555
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••••
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI ••••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN eth0 - Nvidia ••••
Onboard LAN eth1 - Nvidia ••••
Onboard Audio 9999
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid 6666
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
LSI 8344 66
Hardware Raid 66
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••••
HP 16x dual-la
y
er DVD+RW 4444
HP BD-RE (Writer) ••••
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 8888
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 8888
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 8888
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 8888
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
HP Printers 11 11 11 11
All supported monitors ••••
footnote 7 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 8 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 9 - For RHEL3 U8
,
download the ALSA Sound Su
pp
ort soft
p
a
q
from htt
p
://www.h
p
.com/su
pp
ort/xw9400. For RHEL4
,
use the built in ALSA Sound Su
pp
ort.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 5 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1). SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5
Hon
g
Kon
g
, ACF Ja
p
an-En
g
lish, ACJ India-En
g
lish, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Euro
p
e A4, AC0 Bel
g
ium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l En
g
lish
)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400 (substitute correct platform name); Select
"download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'
footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP LinuxWorkstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.

Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported) RHEL 4.5 or later
(EM64T)
hp blade workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •
Localization Kit
HP localization kit •
Software
Remote Graphics Software •
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •
Single/Dual/Quad-core Xeon (all frequencies) •
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 •
NVIDIA Quadro FX1600 •
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
1 GB
Maximum 32 GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives •
All Supported USB Drive Keys •
Network Cards
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN eth0 - Broadcom 5708 •
Onboard LAN eth1 - Broadcom 5708 •
Input/Output Devices
RHEL 4.5 Hardware Support Matrix for the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 3 U8 or later
(
x86
)
RH EL WS 3 U8 or later
(
EM64T
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later
(
x86 & EM64T
)
RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64
)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit ••••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) ••••
Hyperthreading ••••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 11 11 11 11
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) ••••
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCI-E ••
ATI v3350 PCI-E ••
ATI v7200 PCI-E ••
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512 512
Maximum 8GB 8GB 8GB 8GB
Hard Disks
xw4400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
Hard
Disks
All Supported SAS disk drives 5555
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 2222
Onboard Audio 10 10 10 10
Onboard SATA Raid 66
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card ••••
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers ••••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 66
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••••
HP 16x dual-la
y
er DVD+RW 4444
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 9999
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 9999
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 9999
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 9999
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors ••••
footnote 7 - The xw4400 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 10 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in
htt
p
://www.h
p
.com/su
pp
ort/linux
_
user
_
manual.
footnote 11 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only) . SATA Raid is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy,
AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan
-
English, ACJ India
-
English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int
'
l English)
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4400 (substitute correct platform name); Select
"download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'
footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.

Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported) RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(
x86
)
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(
EM64T
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later
(
x86 & EM64T
)
RH EL DT 5 or later
(
x86 & x86_64
)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. ••••
Localization Kit
(
See footnote 1
)
HP localization ki
t
••••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••
All Supported Processors
A
ll Supported Processors
(
1 & 2 CPU confi
g
s
)
••••
H
y
perthreadin
g
Graphics Card
(
Video Card
)
(
See footnote 3
)
No Graphics Card ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 22
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 9999
NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 ••••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) ••••
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3300 PCI-E ••
ATI v3350 PCI-E ••
ATI v7200 PCI-E ••
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512 512
Maximum 32GB 32GB 32GB 32GB
Hard Disks
A
ll Supported SAS disk drives 6 6 6 6
A
ll Supported SATA disk drive
s
6666
A
ll Supported USB Drive Ke
y
s ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••••
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gi
g
ibit PC
I
••••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5752 10/100/1000 ••••
Onboard Audio 8888
Onboard SATA/SAS Raid 55
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
LSI 8344 55
Hardware Raid 55
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 4444
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 7777
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 7777
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 7777
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 7777
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors ••••
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 10 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1,). SATA Raid is not supported.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 8 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 9 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5
Hon
g
Kon
g,
ACF Ja
p
an-En
g
lish
,
ACJ India-En
g
lish
,
AB0 Taiwan
,
AK6 Euro
p
e A4
,
AC0 Bel
g
ium
,
ABS Sweden
,
ABB Int'l En
g
lis
xw8400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL4 Update 3 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download
drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'

Product Items/Features
(Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported) RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(
x86
)
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(
EM64T
)
RH EL WS 4 U5 or later
(
x86 & EM64T
)
RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64
)
hp workstation base system
Base s
y
stem includes: Chassis, S
y
stem Board, USB, Power Suppl
y
, etc
.
••••
Localization Kit
(
See footnote 1
)
HP localization ki
t
••••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••
All Supported Processors
A
ll Supported Processors
(
1 & 2 CPU confi
g
s
)
••••
H
y
perthreadin
g
Graphics Card
(
Video Card
)
(
See footnote 3
)
No Graphics Card ••••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) ••••
SLI Graphics Connector
NVIDIA Quadro NVS285 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX560 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 ••••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 9999
ATI v3300 PCI-E ••
ATI v3350 PCI-E ••
ATI v7200 PCI-E ••
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512 512
Maximum 16GB 16GB 16GB 16GB
Hard Disks
A
ll Supported SAS disk drives
A
ll Supported SATA disk drive
s
6666
A
ll Supported USB Drive Ke
y
s ••••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express ••••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5752 10/100/1000 ••••
Onboard Audio 8888
Onboard SATA Raid 55
Add Ons
LSI 3041E SAS Card ••••
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 55
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive ••••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo ••••
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 4444
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 7777
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 7777
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 7777
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 7777
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors ••••
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5
Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 9 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card.
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 8 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw6400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download
drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstati
o
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.
xw6400 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 7 (x86 & x86_64), RHEL4 Update 3 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(x86) RH EL WS 3 U7 or later (EM64T) RH EL WS 4 U3 or later (x86 & EM64T)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software ••
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Hyperthreading •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3450 256MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 256MB PCI-E •••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI (See footnote 3) •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 64MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX540 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS400
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 PCI-E
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3100 PCI-E •••
ATI v5100 PCI-E 888
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512
Maximum 8GB 8GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SCSI disk drives 5 5 5
All S t d SATA di k d i
57
57
57
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw4300 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 5 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL4 Update 1 (x86 & x86_64)
All
S
uppor
t
e
d
SATA
di
s
k
d
r
i
ves
5
,
7
5
,
7
5
,
7
All Supported USB Drive Keys •••
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5782 NetXtreme Gigabit PCI •••
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express •••
Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit PCI •••
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI 11 11 11
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5751 10/100/1000 222
Onboard Audio 10 10 10
Onboard SATA Raid 666
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers •••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 48x CD/RW Drive •••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo •••
HP 16x dual-la
y
er DVD+RW 4 4 4
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 999
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 999
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 999
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 999
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors •••
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4300; Select "download
drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4
footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux Systems and this includes the Promise SATA Raid Card, Onboard SATA Chipset Raid, Adaptec 2120S SCSI Raid Card, LSI 20320 A-R
SCSI Card, Onboard SCSI Chipset Raid. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID.
footnote 7 - The xw4300 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 8 - The ATI v5100 is not supported due to Vesa driver issues during install. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual for instructions on
how to install the ATI driver.
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
footnote 10 - For RHEL3 U5, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4300. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support.
footnote 11
-
Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 3 U7 or later
(x86) RH EL WS 3 U7 or later (EM64T) RH EL WS 4 U3 or later (x86 & EM64T)
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit •••
Software
Remote Graphics Software •••
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••
Hyperthreading
Dual-core Opeteron (2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.8GHz) •••
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2)
No Graphics Card ••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX3450 256MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 256MB PCI-E •••
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI (See footnote 3)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 64MB PCI-E •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX540 •••
NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 •••
NVIDIA Quadro NVS400
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 PCI-E
SLI Graphics Connecto
r
555
ATI v3100 PCI-E
ATI v5100 PCI-E
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
1GB 1GB 1GB
Maximum 32GB 32GB 32GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SCSI disk drives 6 6 6
All Supported SATA disk drives 6,8 6,8 6,8
A
ll Su
pp
orted USB Drive Ke
y
s •••
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw9300 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 5 (x86), RHEL3 Update 4 (x86_64), and RHEL4 Update 1 (x86 & x86_64)
pp y
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5782 NetXtreme Gigabit PCI •••
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express 9 9 9
Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit PCI
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI •••
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Nvidia •••
Onboard Audio •••
Onboard SATA Raid 777
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers •••
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 777
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive •••
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •••
HP 48x CD/RW Drive •••
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo •••
HP 16x dual-la
y
er DVD+RW 4 4 4
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 10 10 10
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 10 10 10
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 10 10 10
HP Standard Keyboard, USB 10 10 10
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors •••
footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9300 (substitute correct
platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux
Workstations'
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4
Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 7 - Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux Systems and this includes the Promise SATA Raid Card, Onboard SATA Chipset Raid, Adaptec 2120S SCSI Raid Card, LSI 20320 A-R SCSI
Card, Onboard SCSI Chi
p
set Raid. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID,
p
rovides excellent functionalit
y
and
p
erformance. It is a
g
ood alternative to hardware-based RAID.
This Month
'
s Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U4 64bit preload on xw4300 xw4400 xw6200 xw6400 xw8200 xw8400 xw9300 xw9400 Please refer to the Release Notes
footnote 9 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 5 - We are offerin
g
the SLI Gra
p
hics Connector on the HPIKL
(
FreeDOS
)
confi
g
uration.
footnote 8 - The xw9300 is capable of supporting up to 4 SATA drives. The xw4300 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the
Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 10 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported

Product Items/Features (Blan
k
box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 3
U7 or later
(x86)
RH EL WS 3
U7 or later
(EM64T)
RH EL WS 4
U3 or later
(x86 & EM64T) 7.2 7.3
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••••
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit
•
•
•
•
•
Software
Remote Graphics Software
•
•
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs)
•
•
•
•
•
Hyperthreading
•
•
•
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX330 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1300 128MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3450 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI (See footnote 5)
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX540
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1400
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS400
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 PCI-E
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3100 PCI-E
•
•
•
ATI v5100 PCI-E 888
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512 512 512
Maximum 16GB 16GB 16GB 4GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SCSI disk drives 77777
All Supported SATA disk drives 7 7 7
All Supported USB Drive Keys
•
•
•
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5782 NetXtreme Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
22
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express 22222
Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
22
Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI
•
•
•
22
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Intel 10/100/1000
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard Audio
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard SATA Raid
6
6
6
6
6
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers
•
•
•
•
•
SATA Controllers
LSI 3041 SAS/SATA Controller
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 66666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 48x CD/RW Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW
4
4
4
•
4
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
9
9
9
HP Standard Keyboard, USB
9
9
9
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors
•
•
•
•
•
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw8200 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 2 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL4 Initial (x86 & x86_64)
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8200 (substitute correct
platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux Systems and this includes the Promise SATA Raid Card, Onboard SATA Chipset Raid, Adaptec 2120S SCSI Raid Card, LSI 20320 A-R SCSI
Card, Onboard SCSI Chipset Raid. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID.
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4
Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 5 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 7 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.
footnote 8 - The ATI v5100 is not supported due to Vesa driver issues during install. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual for instructions on
how to install the ATI driver.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U4 64bit preload on xw4300, xw4400, xw6200, xw6400, xw8200, xw8400, xw9300, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes
Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported
)
RH EL WS 3
U7 or later
(x86)
RH EL WS 3
U7 or later
(EM64T)
RH EL WS 4
U3 or later
(x86 & EM64T) 7.2 7.3
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.
•
•
•
•
•
Localization Kit (See footnote 1)
HP localization kit
•
•
•
•
•
Software
Remote Graphics Software
•
•
All Supported Processors
All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs)
•
•
•
•
•
Hyperthreading
•
•
•
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)
No Graphics Card
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX330 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1300 128MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3450 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 256MB PCI-E
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI (See footnote 6)
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX540
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1400
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS400
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 PCI-E
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3100 PCI-E
•
•
•
ATI v5100 PCI-E 888
System RAM
Minimum
(
MB
)
512 512 512 256 256
Maximum 8GB 8GB 8GB 4GB 8GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SCSI disk drives 77777
All Supported SATA disk drives 7 7 7
All Supported USB Drive Keys
•
•
•
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5782 NetXtreme Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
22
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express
•
•
•
•
•
Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
22
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5751 10/100/1000
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard Audio
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard SATA Raid
5
5
5
5
5
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers
•
•
•
•
•
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 55555
Remote Graphics Software
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 48x CD/RW Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW
4
4
4
•
4
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
9
9
9
HP Standard Keyboard, USB
9
9
9
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors
•
•
•
•
•
footnote 6 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U4 64bit preload on xw4300, xw4400, xw6200, xw6400, xw8200, xw8400, xw9300, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes
Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.
footnote 7 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux Systems and this includes the Promise SATA Raid Card, Onboard SATA Chipset Raid, Adaptec 2120S SCSI Raid Card, LSI 20320 A-R SCSI
Card, Onboard SCSI Chipset Raid. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID.
footnote 8 - The ATI v5100 is not supported due to Vesa driver issues during install. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual for instructions on
how to install the ATI driver.
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
xw6200 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 2 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL4 Initial (x86 & x86_64)
footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw6200 (substitute correct
platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux
Workstations'
footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4
Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English)
footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit.

Product Items/Features
(
Blank box or unlisted means the com
p
onent is NOT su
pp
orted
)
RH EL WS 3
U5 or later
(x86)
RH EL WS 3
U5 or later
(EM64T)
RH EL WS 4
U1 or later
(x86 & EM64T) 7.2 7.3
hp workstation base system
Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. •••••
Localization Kit (See footnote 3)
HP localization kit
•
•
•
•
•
Software
Remote Graphics Software
•
•
All Supported Processors
A
ll Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs)
•
•
•
•
•
Hyperthreading
•
•
•
Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 1)
No Graphics Card
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX330 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1300 128MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 256MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX3450 256MB PCI-E
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 256MB PCI-E
G-Card (to be used with the FX4500)
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI (See footnote 4)
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 64MB PCI-E
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX540
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro FX1400
•
•
•
•
•
NVIDIA Quadro NVS400
NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 PCI-E
SLI Graphics Connector
ATI v3100 PCI-E
•
•
•
ATI v5100 PCI-E 888
System RAM
Minimum (MB) 512 512 512 128 128
Maximum 4GB 4GB 4GB 4GB 4GB
Hard Disks
All Supported SCSI disk drives 55555
All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 5,7
All Supported USB Drive Keys
•
•
•
Network Cards (no modem support)
Broadcom 5782 NetXtreme Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
•
•
Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express
•
•
•
•
•
Intel Pro 1000 MT Gigabit PCI
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard Components
Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5751 10/100/1000
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard Audio
•
•
•
•
•
Onboard SATA Raid
6
6
6
6
6
Add Ons
IEEE 1394 PCI Card
All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers
•
•
•
•
•
SATA Controllers
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hardware Raid 66666
Removable CD/DVD Media
HP 48x CD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 48x CD/RW Drive
•
•
•
•
•
HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo
•
•
•
•
•
HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 2 2 2 2
Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)
HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2
9
9
9
•
•
HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB
9
9
9
HP Standard Keyboard, USB
9
9
9
Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card
All supported monitors
•
•
•
•
•
Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations
footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration.
footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is not supported on Linux Systems and this includes the Promise SATA Raid Card, Onboard SATA Chipset Raid, Adaptec 2120S SCSI Raid Card, LSI 20320 A-R SCSI
Card, Onboard SCSI Chipset Raid. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID.
footnote 1 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4200 (substitute correct
footnote 2 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.
xw4200 Red Hat Linux Support
First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 2 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL4 Initial (x86 & x86_64)
footnote 3 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4
footnote 4 - 280 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. The SLI connector used to connect the graphic cards together will not be supported until RedHat Delivers RHEL3 U6. See
instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.
footnote 7 -The xw4200 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive.
footnote 8 - The ATI v5100 is not supported due to Vesa driver issues during install. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual for instructions on
how to install the ATI driver.
This Month's Change Log: Will be offering support on ATI Cards. Will be offering Red Hat WS 3 U5 32bit preload on xw4200 and Red Hat WS 3 U5 64bit preload on xw4300, xw6200,
footnote 9 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported