Manual for motherboard

[Nemame]

Hi where can i find manual to the motherboard with a picture of it and all the information about all the things on it.  In the product specification haven't found any information about SATA on board. I can see them there, but would be better having normal manual to the motherboard. Where i can see it with description.

[Bill_To]

Hi @Nemame 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

HP used to provide a MB image with component placement and description. I have never seen a HP MB manual similar to the manual you get with a retail MB.

This Site provides current MB details provided by HP at this time.

The SATA ports on the MB should all be SATA 3. The MB has two M.2 sockets for NVME SSDs.

I would think one M.2 socket on your MB is now populated with the system drive.

You may lose access to: a SATA 3 port or two or the PCIe four lane slot if you add a second M.2 drive. This may happen due to chipset PCIe lane limitations.

The Z790 chipset may provide enough PCIe lanes for all components. I haven't researched this at this time.

Regards

[Nemame]

Hi @Bill_To

i seen that page, but still thanks for your info, i got the version with 2 M2drives. Still strange for me they dont even add there a photo.  Checked intel site for the Z790 chipset there is only info that there can be  "Max # of SATA 6.0 Gb/s Ports    8". So it should be enoug as want to add only 2 for now.  Still hoping to get photo without components on the board and some info to it.

[Bill_To]

Hi @Nemame 

I am running older retail MBs using Intel and AMD Chipsets.

The older MB's CPU and Chipsets have PCIe lane limits. Some of my MBs will disable specific SATA ports or a secondary PCIe slot when using an M.2 drive in the second M.2 socket.

I haven't checked PCIe lane limitations on newer Intel MBs so I don't know what the current limits are. HP can configure this stuff however they want. I have seen HP truncate a PCIe X16 slot to eight PCIe lanes on some MBs.

You should have no problem if you are going to use two SATA ports.

You might have to test all SATA ports on the MB to check if HP has disabled any SATA ports when the MB is using two M.2 drives.

Regards

[Nemame]

Hi @Bill_To

Normal way to find out is the MB manual,  but ok for now i see here its not so easy. There are more things about which i wasn't thinking, like there are no cables anywhere like the  SATA data  cables. As when i was building at my own, there was always enough cables for the start  to use.  Hopefully today at night or tommorow i will get to add the hdd and sdd and will see how its going.

And any idea if there is a chance that i get here oficial answer from HP or this is wrong place for that?

[Bill_To]

Hi @Nemame 

This Forum is mostly users helping other users.

I have had many HP consumer PCs over the years. I have never seen a MB manual.

HP business PCs have a detailed Maintenance and Service Guide.

Regards

[Nemame]

Hi @Bill_To

alright so its the wrong place most likely for my question, but didnt got much more from the hp asistant.

And to the disc drives, they are in the computer now and there was one SATA cable in SATA1 slot and one needed to be provided by me. Can see 4 SATA slots on MB, maybe this info helps someone. If there are more then they are under graphic card. But as there are 2x 3,5 and 2x 2,5 slots for disc drives thats most likely all of them.