Wyse Technology Z90D7 manual

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    Inst allation Guide Wyse ® Z Class Conversion to ThinOS Wyse ® USB Firmware T ool TM Release 1.19 Products: Z50D, Z50S, Z90D7, Z 90D7B, Z90D7p, Z9 0DE7, Z90DE7p, Z90DEW , Z90DW , Z90S7, Z90S7p, Z90SW Issue: 0801 13 PN: 883887-33L Rev . A[...]

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    Copyright Notices © 2013, Wyse T echnology LLC. All rights reserved. This manual and the software and firmware described in it are copyrighted. Y ou may not reproduce, transmit, transcribe, store in a retrieval system, or translate into any language or compute r language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnet ic, optica l, ch[...]

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    Content s 1 Introduction 1 Kit Contents 1 Wyse T echnical Support 2 Related Document ation and Services 2 Wyse Online Community 2 2 Converting Wyse Z Class to ThinOS 3 Requirements 3 Procedures 4 T roubleshooting 10 USB Keys - T rou bleshooting Boot Issues 10 SanDisk Cruiser Flash Drives - T rou bleshooting Partition Issues 10[...]

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    1 Introduction This guide provides the instr uctions you nee d to install and use Wyse ® USB Firmware To o l TM to convert the following Wyse D class thin clients to ThinOS: W ARNING : ThinOS v8.0_03 7 conversion Does Not support : • Wireless (af ter conversion, Wireless will not work on Wireless devices). · No support for the Intel or Atheros [...]

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    2 Chapter 1 The Conversion Sof tware Assembly DVD-ROM contains: • A PDF of this Reference Guide • Wyse USB Firmware T ool Release 1.19 • Z Class ThinOS Conversio n Im ag e fo lde r co ntaining the fo llow i ng files: · bios.img · commandsXml.xml · par 1.i mg • Z Class ThinOS 3.0D BIOS Image folder containing the following files: · bios.[...]

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    2 Converting W yse Z Class to ThinOS This chapter include s the requirements and procedure s you need to install and use Wyse ® USB Firmware T ool TM to update your thin c lient to ThinOS firmware. TIP : The purpose of the Wy se USB Firmware T o ol is to c onfigure a boo t able USB key for device firmware. In the following procedur es, you will cr[...]

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    4 Chapter 2 Procedures IMPORT ANT : Complete the following procedures as an administrator (ad min istrator privileges are re qu ire d ). S tep 1: Copy the Z Class ThinOS Conversion Image Folder and Z Class ThinOS 3.0D BIOS Image Folder to Y our Local Hard Drive Navigate to the Z Class ThinOS Conversion Image folder and the Z Class ThinOS 3.0D BIOS [...]

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    Converting Wyse Z Class to ThinO S 5 Figure 3 Configuration options 3. Select the Configure the USB key t o Copy/Pull or to Up dat e/Push firmware option, and then click Next to open the Select the Configuration dialog bo x. Figure 4 Upda te firmware options 4. Select the WTOS/Xenith/Xenith Pro operating system (OS) type option (note that OS Image [...]

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    6 Chapter 2 Figure 6 Browse to select commandsXml.xml 8. Navigate to the Z Class ThinOS Conversion Image folder on your h ard drive (this is the location you selected in "S tep 1: Copy the Z Class ThinOS Conversion Imag e Folder and Z Class T hinOS 3.0D BIOS I mage Folder to Y our Local Hard Drive"), click on the commandsXml.xml file to s[...]

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    Converting Wyse Z Class to ThinO S 7 S tep 4: Use the Configured USB Key to Install Firmware on Each Thin Client In this step, you will boot each thin client you want to convert from the configured USB key so that the USB key will push the contents from the USB key onto the t arget device . NOTE : BIOS selection, movement, and exit in structions ar[...]

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    8 Chapter 2 S tep 6: Update the BIOS on Each Converted Thin Client In this step you will use the USB Firmware T o ol to update the BIOS of each thin client to BIOS version 3.0D . T o do this, you must repeat the following steps on a sep arate (second) USB key using the commandsXml.xml file located in the Z Class ThinOS 3.0D BIOS Image folder on you[...]

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    Converting Wyse Z Class to ThinO S 9 S tep 8: Obtain a Firmware Update If you are under a Wyse maintenance contract, yo u can download ThinOS sof tware updates from yo ur My Downloads page in the Wyse Se lf-Service Center at http://support.wyse.c om/selfservice.html . If you are not und er maintenance and wish to gain access to ThinOS software upda[...]

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    10 Chapter 2 T roubleshooting This section contains ge neral troubleshooting information. USB Keys - T roubleshoot ing Boot Issues Due to differ ent manufacturing processes on U SB keys (and the variety o f them), not all brands have been tested with the Wyse USB Firmware T ool. If you experience problems booting from a configured USB key , it is r[...]

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    Inst allation Guide Wys e ® Z Class Conversion to ThinOS Issue: 0801 13 Written and publishe d by: Wyse T echnology LLC, August 2013 Created using Fra m eM a ke r ® and Acrobat ®[...]