Hp T520 Thin Client

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Hii have 12 Thin client T520s i want to upgrade to iot w10e

I read the image is around 20GB and the default ssd is 32 GB, and that 64 GB upgrades were suggested.

Does HP have a certified brand that is guaranteed to work and not be disabled or disrupted by a future update?

Hi,

the problem is my IT manager had an incident occur a couple years ago, we bought new laptops from HP, installed additional ram. The ram worked fine, until we did a bios update like a year later, and for some reason that ram was no longer accepted by the board.

They had to go out and purchase ram a second time. When dealing with a large company that can get quite costly.

So i need to make 100 percent sure that will not occur with the ssd if we choose to upgrade these.

I saw an article on how to stop the bios key check for the OS when using a ibr image.

It did not work, but it was for thin client 620s not 520s.

Does anyone know a work around to get an ibr win10 iot image installed for lab testing before we buy the license upgrades?

Hi all,

This is my first post in the community.

I have bought 6 HP 520 Thin clients and I already have 2 of them setup for NVR purposes.

They are really nice little machines and the speed is excellent for my needs.

Now for my case/question.

I want to use them as NVR systems for my clients, however... if I boot them without keyboard or monitor connected I get 6 red beeps and this continues during boot. If I connect a monitor and keyboard I have no issues whatsover and the system boots up as it's supposed to do.

I've looked in the bios and tried different settings but still no go.

If there is a power faillure and I boot the systems up again I always have to make sure that the Thin Clients are connected to a monitor and keyboard which is not really an option since I want to keep things light

Is there any workaround for my issue?

Br,

Steve

@AhrBee

Thanks for posting in detail about your experiment / venture. It is quite promising, alluring me to try it myself.

Hope others who have tried it will also post their experience in this thread.

Logitech dongle in one of those spots works for wireless KB/Mouse. Or plug in a USB keyboard. Either slot is usable for boot/KB and both at the same time. Other USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports visible after boot, but NOT useable for boot or KB.

Like @abcd567 I, too, am awaiting delivery of a thin client which the original post inspired me to buy. HP T620 with SSD, RAM and PSU included and currently running WES7. At 32 euros it seemed like too good a deal to pass up.

If it had included shipping at 32 euros it would have been outright theft. Shipping was extra - 1/2 the cost at 16 euros. Being eBay I could have put in a lower bid to see if the seller would accept it, but decided to just pay the advertised price. Even with the shipping for me it was good value for a project to have fun with.

If one sets up the boot sequence to USB first, then SSD, and configures the Linux USB stick grub menu to have the Linux and Windows items (Linux as default), it makes for a truly fun setup, in my opinion. I use an older laptop with a similar setup, it has room for both on-board M.2 flash and SATA SSD for those occasions when I need to be completely portable. My boot order is USB stick (whatever happens to be set up on it), then SSD (Linux desktop), then M.2 flash. USB stick and SSD both have grub menus set up. If the USB happens to be removed, then it will simply boot whatever is on the internal SSD, since it does not know about grub.

The benefit to me is having set up several USB sticks with various flavors of Linux distributions or special apps and simply plug in whichever one suits the particular need at the time. That leaves me a couple of USB slots to populate with RTL SDRs or other devices as needed for the application.

Remeber that the thin client (HP T520) has only two USB slots that will recognize the USB to boot from, and these are USB 2.0 speeds. There are the two USB 3.0 ports to use for speedy storage after boot if needed.

The newer ones are actually pretty quick and can handle somethings on their own since they use Windows embedded operating systems and while they lack hard drives they have enough space to install a few programs.

I use one at home for testing using a Watchguard VPN and RDP. So I got curious about how it could handle something like SmartSDR and it amazed me how well it worked, probably not well suited for guys who have the higher end units like the 6500 or the 6700.

A thin client is a lightweight computer that is purpose-built for remoting into a server (typically cloud or desktop virtualization environments). It depends heavily on another computer (its server) to fulfill its computational roles.

I'm also having the same issue with a HP t630 thin client using Windows 10 LTSB. I would like to be able to use the quarterly released HP image (ibr file), customize, capture and deploy it to all thin client machines. The capture process seems to work OK (after disabling the UWF) but the deployment fails at the step Cacophony describes.

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