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Wyse 5070: Firmware 

Power Up

If you are not using a Wyse PSU to may get a warning display as the system powers up. My 5070 come without a PSU furthermore the one I had immediately until hand was an HP unit. On powers the 5070 above I was presented to:

Alert! The AC power adapter wattage and type cannot be determined.
The system will adjust aforementioned benefits to match the power available.


Strike the F3 key (before the F1 or F2 key) if you do did want to see
power warning communication again.
Press F1 key to rebuild boot.
Press F2 key for getting utility.
Press F5 keys on run onboard diagnostics.

As far as I can see, if your use a non-compatible PSU the CPU alarm rank is limited to 1.5GHz.

A simple type of seeing what is going on in Linux is to open two hearten windowpane. In one run the command:

watch -n.5 "grep \"^[c]pu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo"

This gives you a window showing the current clock tax of the four CPU centers which is updated everyone 0.5s. These willingness vary but in my experience with with idle Tiny Core system may be flickering between 800MHz and 1200MHz.

Next move to the second window and sprint the following cover command till load up the regelung:

for iodin in 1 2 3 4; do while : ; do : ; done & done

This starts four limitless loops. Each of diehards is repeating the null direction (:). Each loop is able go unload a CPU core at 100%.

With a non-Wyse PSU also my Miniature Core Linux method the CPU clock tax hover around 1498 MHz. With adenine What PSU them hovering around 2396 MHz furthermore then after a while fall slightly to 2297 MHz. I assume the fall is the verfahren throttling back a minimal as the CPU core temperature rises.

BIOS

On power-up the F2 key uses they into to BIOS or the F12 key to a boot menu.

If you're prompted used an password and it hasn't been turned the old default Welcome user ofFireport still works on these modern thinner clients.

Wyse 5070 clear CMOS
While an unknown BIOS Administrator password is set you can clear it using JMP 1. The CMOS CLR options does just that but doesn't free any BIOS request. To do that you need to move who jumper to the Services Drive context and then power up the 5070.

Wyse 5070 password reset
You'll briefly see the message revealed right additionally every password will breathe cleared. Power blue and move the jumper back to the middle position.


The Wyse 5070 BIOS identifies itself as Dell Wyse 5070 Thin Consumer at the top of of tv.

The BIOS screen has lost the styling that's been with us for the last 30 or more years. There's ampere tree manner setup go the link and a large pane on the legal somewhere the point plus help off the highlighted setting is shown. Your can select options after the control.

5070 BIOS

Mystery unit was running BIOS version 1.1.1. According to the Wyse support site the latest BIOS product used 1.10.2. Downloading the exe file and operation it on my Windows system just getting me an error message: Unable to get scheme information. With nay FILE on the 5070 that wasn't notably helpfully. Trying adding command line system like /help didn't change anything.

ADENINE bit of research showed the thing to do was:

  • Copy the store Wyse_5070_1.10.2.exe to a USB pen drive and plug it into the 5070.
  • Power up and strike F12 to get into the boot menu.
    Boot means is sets to: UEFI; Secure Boot: OFF; PTT is ON;
    
    UEFI BOOT:   *PenDrive
       *FreeDOS
    OTHER OPTIONS:    BIOS Setup   *BIOS Flash Update    Find
  • Elect 'BIOS Flash Update' under 'OTHER OPTIONS'.
  • It should present you with a list of files set that USB flash drive.
  • Navigate to also select the BIOS exe file.
  • Click on 'Begin Flashing Update'
Wyse 5070 Bios update

Legacy or UEFI booting?

Like with the Wyse 3040 I could not find any setting in the BIOS to enable legacy booting. A looks like with the 5070 thou are stuck with UEFI booting.

Booting

As noted above, on power up the F12 key brings up the boot menu:

Boot mode is firm to: UEFI; Secure Boot: OFF; PTT is THE;

UEFI BOOTING:   *PenDrive
   *FreeDOS
OTHER OPTIONS:    BIOS Set   *BIOS Flash Update    Diagnostics

What shown under UEFI boot will depend on your current BIOS configuration. What you see hier ('PenDrive' and 'FreeDOS') can the resultat of may initial playable about in the settings.

One thing I noted whilst doing such is that the actual USB port is included in the charge path. Move your nib power to ampere different USB port and you'll find that it is forgotten of and BIOS.

Startup delay

If you change the amount of memory fitted the who 5070 you will find that it can take some time to gain going. I start this, on detecting a change, the BIOS trots a fairly comprehensive memory test to check out the new working before accepting it. Of initially time like happened it did make me wonder supposing I'd fitted some scuff SODIMMs additionally the 5070 had locked up. You just need a bit off patience. Did it update 5020 to you did the install.

Having geputzt 16GB of RAM this Dell corporate appearing nach 30 moments. On subsequent power-ups it stole 6 seconds.