HP Z820 Issues

[RichieCUK]

I recently purchased a used HP Z820 from the company I work for to use as a 3D rendering machine.

 

The specs are:

Intel Xeon E5-2687W 3.10Ghz x 2

56GB RAM

Nvidia 1050ti

500GB SSD System Drive

3TB Back Up Drive

 

So my questions are:

 

The boot times - They are really long is there anyway I can speed them up? It's usually at the initial boot stage it seems to be doing loads of checks.

 

If try to add in another 3TB back up drive it seems to detect all drives but then wont go past the initial boot screen with the HP symbol where the BIOS checks appear. If I take out the drive it boots back up. Why is this?

 

Also I seems to get random slow downs when in Windows, not doing anything taking and it just seems to freeze and lag. Could this be a hard drive issue?

 

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Is the boot drive the SSD, if not make it that.

It also could be HP's build of windows being bloated as hell

[RichieCUK]

Just now, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

Is the boot drive the SSD, if not make it that.

It also could be HP's build of windows being bloated as hell

It's a brand new install of Windows 10 so no bloatware.

 

The boot drive is an SSD but how can I set it to boot drive if I cant get into the BIOS when I add another hard drive?

 

Like I say with the 2 hard drives it came with it works fine.

 

I slot in another 3TB drive as well and then it wont boot