having difficulty installing WIN10Pro on t640

[Stonewall77]

I bought a couple t640 thin clients off ebay looking to repurpose them as WIN10 boxes for my kids.  Every time I insert a USB stick with the Windows installer, I watch a circle on the HP splash screen and then after 10min it finally gives a BSOD with a note that says this Device is having problems installing and then wants to restart. 

Anyone have any pointers. 

Thanks in advance.   

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The only suggestion I can offer would be to make sure that you have disabled Secure boot in the BIOS.

I had no problem installing W10/W11 Pro on my t630.

I installed 2 x 8 GB of memory in mine because the PC is not designed to run a full-blown version of Windows.

You should also be able to change the amount of system memory reserved for the graphics.

It needs all the help it can get.

I changed the setting to the max (1 GB on the t630).

[Stonewall77]

I'll try it out.  I got Ubuntu working but not WIN10pro yet.  

[Paul_Tikkanen]

The other thing you can try is this...

Download the W10 64 bit ISO file instead of making the bootable USB flash drive.

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

Use the free Rufus utility to transfer the ISO file to a USB flash drive.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Select the GPT partition scheme, not MBR.

[Stonewall77]

So it was the Secure Boot issue.  Thanks so much for taking time from your Sunday to help me.  Kids will be happy.  Salud!!!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Glad to have been of assistance.