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by garion11

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Greetings all,

I am a Field Tech and recently my company started having us troubleshoot standalone PCs that are in the field in our areas. The issue however is this...the pcs don't have a mouse, keyboard, or a monitor. They are truly standalone, lol. While they have VGA, NIC, USB, PS/2 ports etc...these pcs serve a very special function as they are hooked up to the NIC and a local printer which prints out batch reports. So when they asked us to support these guys, what we are all doing is hooking them up to a 14" monitor, keyboard, and mouse and it is quite cumbersome.

So my question is Does anyone know of a device that has a mouse, keyboard, and a display with attached wires that can immediately be hooked up to these PCs? I am talking about something like a portable DVD players size type device which has a small display, a keyboard, a mouse/touchpad...Any help in this matter is appreciated. Thanks.

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by dmiles

This describes an all in one system that is quite expensive and not what you would want to use,the other part is that I donot think there is a system without cpu that is reasonalble

by skidoggeruk

sounds like these are print servers. I imagine it will be out of the question to replace them with print servers, but wouldn't that be good? You probably know you can remotely admin most print servers over the WAN on a browser these days.

Alternatively, if there is room, could you just abandon a monitor at each site? Even just leave them in a cupboard/closet? I don't know about some of you, but I have got tons of old monitors.

You could look out some combined keyb/touchpad keyboards and a cheap LCD, and just keep these in an old notebook bag in your vehicle.

Just a few thoughts

good luck

by garion11

I am thinking that there is no product out there for our needs. I guess I have to invent one, lol. Thanks all for your help.

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