HP ProDesk 400 G1

Introduction

This is a second-hand, computer, formerly Australian Government owned. It was purchased from an Australian reseller who advertised it on their internet web-site. It had a pre-installed MS Windows OS. The BIOS setup manual gives the full name of this computer as "HP ProDesk 400 G1 Small Form Factor Business PC". When purchased, it had a fully installed and working MS Windows OS. This computer name is rather long, so we shall refer it as HP400 in this discussion. Many people use MS OS (Operating System). I prefer and use Linux OS. It is a question of preferences and it is futile to argue about preferences. In the following text, the references to computer operations will be for Linux OS unless specifically MS Windows OS is mentioned.

CPU

The comprehensive and simple way to report it is with the CLI (Command Line Interface). The command to examine and report the CPU details is lscpu. Generally, "ls" is the command for listing the file system. The following list shows inter alia that my user-name on my HP400 computer is "ak". The command lscpu was applied in a console window that was opened on the desktop.

ak@HP400:~$ sudo lscpu

Architecture: x86_64

CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit

Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 60 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4160 CPU @ 3.60GHz Stepping: 3 CPU MHz: 858.093 CPU max MHz: 3600.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 7183.26 Virtualisation: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 3072K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm epb tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt dtherm arat pln pts ak@HP400:~$

HDD

Hard disk drive capacity is 500 GB. The following image shows the HP400 hdd after it has been repartitioned. I am happy that the upload of this file went smoothly and will describe all parts of it and then the hdd as it looked before partitioning. I now call it quits and will go to bed...