I just bought a used HP t620 thin client (not the plus model). I bought the correct power supply (from the hp specs): 19.5V, 3.3A, 65W.
The PS measures out at 19.5V.
The t620 has no msata connector soldered in, but it does have an unpopulated M.2 connector. There is no hard drive plugged in.
There is a VGA connector.
My first attempt to start the t620 had the VGA cable and the usb keyboard/mouse plugged in.
I expected the computer to start and enter the bios. (This is my first UEFI experience, by the way.)
When I press the power button and hold it, the hard drive light is white, not blinking, for about 5 seconds, then goes off.
So the t620 is not powering up.
I plugged a bootable USB thumbdrive drive, which may have been an MSDOS boot sector drive.
During one attempt to power up (and only one), the light on the USB thumbdrive did blink a bit before the white led went off.
Oddly, this only happened once.
HP said to reset the CMOS by pressing the CMOS button. No luck.
I don't want to pour bad money after good money, so here is my question:
Knowing that the computer "should" power up, and knowing that the computer is missing a SATA M.2 drive, could that be the cause of the problem
I'm having?
The HP literature says nothing about this. I would guess that UEFI would be available even if there are no drives plugged into the computer.
Thanks in advance!
The PS measures out at 19.5V.
The t620 has no msata connector soldered in, but it does have an unpopulated M.2 connector. There is no hard drive plugged in.
There is a VGA connector.
My first attempt to start the t620 had the VGA cable and the usb keyboard/mouse plugged in.
I expected the computer to start and enter the bios. (This is my first UEFI experience, by the way.)
When I press the power button and hold it, the hard drive light is white, not blinking, for about 5 seconds, then goes off.
So the t620 is not powering up.
I plugged a bootable USB thumbdrive drive, which may have been an MSDOS boot sector drive.
During one attempt to power up (and only one), the light on the USB thumbdrive did blink a bit before the white led went off.
Oddly, this only happened once.
HP said to reset the CMOS by pressing the CMOS button. No luck.
I don't want to pour bad money after good money, so here is my question:
Knowing that the computer "should" power up, and knowing that the computer is missing a SATA M.2 drive, could that be the cause of the problem
I'm having?
The HP literature says nothing about this. I would guess that UEFI would be available even if there are no drives plugged into the computer.
Thanks in advance!