Executive Summary; Tests Performed; Components Tested - HP xw6000 Technical White Paper

executive summary

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This white paper outlines the tests performed on the HP Workstation xw6000 in the Windows NT 4.0
environment, the problems found, and the steps recommended for resolving problems. A chart lists the
specific drivers that were tested under this program and a later section provides a complete step-by-step
guide for installing Windows NT 4.0 on the HP Workstation xw6000.
HP tested the effect of users loading and running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a on HP Workstation
xw6000 products, which are normally delivered with the Microsoft
system pre-installed. Testing covered basic operation of the OS from a user perspective and verified the
proper functioning of OS components and drivers. In addition, the following test tools were used to stress the
OS and drivers:
• NT Meatgrinder
• SpecViewPerf
• PCA Core
• RealPlayer
• XTest
Testing covered U.S. English, French, German and Japanese versions of the base OS using U.S. English
drivers.
The following chart shows the HP Workstation xw6000 components that were specifically tested to function
with Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 as part of this program, as well as those components that were not tested.
Testing was performed under system BIOS versions 1.09 and 1.10.
tested
operating system MS Windows NT 4.0 SP6a,
Standard Encryption
processors Intel
(single and dual) Intel Xeon processor 2.66 GHz/533
Intel Xeon processor 2.8 GHz/533
Intel Xeon processor 3.06 GHz/533
Intel Xeon processor 3.2 GHz/533
graphics Matrox G200MMS PCI (32 MB)
BIOS rev. 2.5.019 and 3.3.034
Matrox G450 AGP (32 MB)
BIOS rev. 1.2.021
Matrox G450 PCI*
Matrox G550*
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 200 AGP
BIOS rev. 4.17.00.35.11
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 200 PCI*
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 PCI
BIOS rev. 4.17.00.47.14
system memory 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 3 GB, 4 GB**
hard drives 36 GB 10,000 rpm U320 SCSI,
40 GB 7,200 rpm ATA100 EIDE
(single drive only)
optical drives 48X CD-ROM
16X DVD-ROM
FDD 1.44 MB, 3.5 inches
networking Broadcom 5702 Gigabit LOMPCI
Broadcom 5702 Gigabit NIC
Broadcom 5782 GigaBit NIC
input/output HP PS/2 keyboard
support for Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 on the HP Workstation xw6000
® Xeon™ processor 2.4 GHz/533
® ®
Windows XP Professional operating
not tested
any other service packs
3D graphics cards
Matrox G450MMS
over 4 GB
multiple drive configurations,
RAID
CD-RW
DVD/CD-RW Combo
DVD-RW
3COM PCI NIC
USB