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Wyse 5060: Firmware 

BIOS

On power-up the DEL key takes you into the BIOS. If you're prompted for a password the old Wyse password of Fireport still works on these modern thin clients.

The Wyse 5060 BIOS identifies itself as Phoenix SecureCore Technology Setup

My unit was running version 1.0A dated 09/06/2016. I decided to update the BIOS before going further. The words below reflect what I found with BIOS 1.0H (06/07/2018).

Advanced Tab

Things of immediate note under the Advanced Tab are:

  • Frame Buffer Size - memory lost to the Video (default 512MB on my system)
  • Boot From USB - defaults to Disabled
  • Boot Mode - set to Legacy/UEFI/Both

Booting

Having disabled the secure boot option, enabled USB booting, a 16gb SATA flash in place but with a pen drive inserted the Boot Tab listed:

  1. USB HDD: SanDisk Cruzer Blade
  2. SATA 0: 16GB SATA Flash Drive
  3. PXE LAN:
  4. USB FDC:
  5. USB CD-ROM

Anything you have connected that it recognises it will the name after the colon. In this example it has seen the pen drive which reports as 'SanDisk Cruzer Blade'.

You can also bring up a one-time boot menu without fiddling with the BIOS settings:

  • Plug in the USB key to the 5060.
  • Press the power button to power it on.
  • Press and hold the P key on the keyboard.

This brings up the Boot Menu. In my case it showed:

  1. USB HDD:SanDisk Cruzer Blade
  2. SATA 0:16GB SATA Flash Drive
  3. PXE LAN:

The cursor up and cursor down keys let you pick what you want to boot.

The Tab key switches you between the Boot menu and the App menu. In my case there are two entries in the App menu:

  1. Setup - which is the standard BIOS Setup utility.
  2. Diagnostics - a comprehensive set of diagnostics including internal temperatures.

 


Any comments? email me. Added March 2022