I have a possible HP question. And maybe not. I think a computer I recently bought might be an HP product, but I dont know.
... it had printed over 524,000 pages before I got it.
The LaserJet series 4100 and similar models were designed and built for 50,000 pages per month. This goes back to the times of the end of the 90s I think it came on to the market in 97, when I bought my first one.
And still today, we can get parts for these old LaserJet's
If HP would have kept going on this quality level, they most likely would still be the king !
Sadly, many people in my circles complain about modern HP products.
So sad!
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I have a server w/motherboard (photo of the same model -attached, but its not my unit, Ive had trouble getting a good photo of the whole thing at once. ) that I think may have been OEMed by HP.
I'm trying to find more out about it. It's a firewall appliance sold by Checkpoint. The T-180 (4800 model)
A lot of them have been EOLed and are in the used market. People install firewalls like pfsense and sell them as a firewall. I am trying to figure out how I can run the OS of my choice on them. I have not been able to access the BIOS to boot and install other OS images, as one is supposed to be able to do with the hardware..
If anybody wants one they are on sites like ebay, with the going price is around $100 They have 8 Intel gigabit NICs and an interesting "EZIO" graphics LCD with buttons made I think by Portwell. But without this critical info its a challenge to say the least to use them. Its got a very noisy fan. (probably amendable to software control)
My ultimate goal is to run FreeBSD or one of the firewalls that are based on FreeBSD (pfsense?) and kind of use it as a case for my Samsung GPSDO. with its 1PPS output serving NTP to my LAN segments each on a dedicated NIC. But I shouldn't and don't trust an install done by somebody else. .
I'd also like to run LadyHeather on it. It has a VGA output which I have a pinout for. And Intel G41 SVGA graphics.
It has an Intel Q9400 CPU at 2.6 GHz.
It has a console port but absolutely nothing is coming out of it currently, as far as I can tell. Maybe it is directing its output to the VGA and a console window that is currently not there?
Anyway, I was hoping that somebody knew more about HP computing hardware as I think the board may be a custom HP product. It came with a small HP SSD in it. (28 GB) The Checkpoint part number is CPAP-SG4800-NGTX-HPP-HA-LCM - I'd most like to get more information on the mother board.
It currently has 8GB of memory (the one in the photo seems to only have the original 4)
Are there any web sites that function as a sort of encyclopedia of obscure PC info? Or books?
Thank you in advance! I will probably figure it out, I am just trying to give a good home and use to this obviously high quality piece of network hardware
-cdev