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Is the HP Z820 Workstation Class Machine…
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Well, Joe, all I know is I didn’t have to do anything to my previous consumer level computers to get them not to act all wonky and weird. You saw the picture I attached, didn’t you? That’s just one thing. Why on earth should I have to tweak anything just to get that from not happening. And again, when I opened that screen capture in photoshop and clicked “Save For Web”, when that dialog box opened, I slid the slider from 50% to 100% and the dialog box disappeared, except for that slider. I mean, come on, do I really need to “install important updates ” for that to not happen (not yelling at you, btw. I know sometimes I sound that way).
And that’s aside from Premiere Pro taking a minute and 11 seconds to open and load a project this morning, compared to my baby PC taking 8 seconds. Oh yeah, also, every time I open AE or PPro it tells me my screen resolution is too low, even though it’s higher than the resolution it’s recommending! One time it told me my resolution should be like 2148×1440 or something ridiculous like that. Why?
Believe me, with my bursitis and all I’m not looking forward to lugging this thing to the local Fedex or UPS or wherever they tell me to bring it. I was so looking forward to working with this, as you of all people know, and right now I don’t even want to look at my camera, let alone shoot footage to work on.
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The more I look at the screen shot and hear the problems you’re having, the more it sounds as if it’s the graphics card. Take a look in Speccy and see if any problems are showing up there, and also, if you haven’t done it already, power down, take out the power cord at the back end, open it up, and reseat the graphics card. Also check any connectors coming off the card into the system. This computer was shipped – it might have been handled gently, it might have been manhandled. It might be that simple; I hope so.
I had the same type of problem, but with RAM, shortly after I got my Z800: all of a sudden on bootup, I’d get error messages, and it would go to DOS and show that there was bad RAM in such and such a block. I opened the box up, reseated all the RAM (didn’t have to remove it, just pressed it lightly into the slot, and the problem went away.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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thanks for sticking with me, Joe. Believe me, as much as I don’t want to send this back, I tried all of that already. Didn’t fix the problem and it wouldn’t be the cause of it taking 30 seconds or more to empty 400meg from the Recycle Bin. No, this thing is just slow and something is wrong with it. I can’t imagine you getting your Z800 and getting my performance and thinking “WOW, this is blazing fast!!!” so no way is my experience anything close to yours.
Just sending it back. It’ll be a while before I get excited about doing this again.
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One last thing to try. Have you done the Windows 7 Control Panel/Performance Information and Tools speed test? That might give you an inkling of where the bottleneck is, since it rates the particular components of the system. I’m just so puzzled by this. It may be that this particular machine has a problem. I’m sorry that this is so disappointing.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I don’t think I would have understood it anyway, but too late, I’ve already disassembled everything and packed it for shipping. At least I’m getting a full refund. Normally they require that buyer pays return shipping.
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Ironically, my consumer PC is behaving like a champ now, or seems to be. Perceptions, you know? That should give you an idea how poorly the Z800 was performing that it’s making this PC appear to be really fast.
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That’s really good news Duke. But it’s also a pain in the butt for all that you’ve gone through. I wonder whether the seller’s acceptance of the return shipping might mean that he knew something? Just a guess.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Well, he also said that he had a lot of damage in his warehouse from a hail storm the other day so maybe he’s kind of lining up his excuses. I sense that he’s aware some of his merchandise, including mine, was damaged. But yeah, it is a pain. This thing is so heavy it was a major project just getting it in the packing and back in the box. I was like a one man “I Love Lucy” episode 😉
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There had to be something seriously wrong with that box for it to behave so poorly. Maybe the hailstorm actually got the thing wet, and there was water damage to some of the components. I feel really bad about this. My experience with the Z800 was just astonishing in terms of the speed ramp up from my old “workstation”, which was really just a gaming box.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Yeah, my experience was astonishing for the wrong reasons. Anyway, I think this, the 100th post in this thread, should be the last. Hopefully in the near future I’ll find a better deal on a better box.
Thanks for everything Joe. You guys too, Dave and Chris.
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