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    Inst allation Guide Wyse ® C Class Conversion to ThinOS Wyse ® USB Firmware T ool TM Release 1.1 1 Issue: 03291 1 PN: 883887-14L Rev . C[...]

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    Copyright Notices © 201 1, Wyse T echnology Inc. All rights reserved. This manual and the software and firmware described in it are copyrighted. Y ou may not rep roduce, 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, [...]

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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 C Class to ThinOS 3 Requirements 3 Procedures 4 T roubleshooting 9 USB Keys - T roubleshooting Boot Issues 9 SanDisk Cruiser Flash Drives - T roubleshooting Partition Issues 9[...]

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    1 Introduction This guide provides the instructions you need to install and use Wyse ® USB Firmware To o l TM to convert the following Wyse C class thin clients to ThinOS: • C30LE • C50LE • C90LE • C90LEW Kit Content s The conversion kit includes: • 1 Y ear ThinOS Mainte nance (you w ill receive an email from Wyse or your reseller with f[...]

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    2 Chapter 1 Wy se T echnical Support T o access Wyse techni cal resources, visit http://www .wyse.com/support . If you still have questions, you can submit your que stions using the Wyse Self-Service Center (on the Wyse.com home pa ge, go to Support > Knowledge Base > Home tab) or call Customer Support at 1-800-800-WYSE (toll free in U.S. and[...]

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    2 Converting W yse C Class to ThinOS This chapter include s the requirements and procedures you need to inst all and use Wyse ® USB Firmware T oo l TM to update your thin c lient to ThinOS firmware. Tip The purpose of the Wyse USB Fir mware T ool is to configure a boot able USB key for device firmware. In the following procedures, you will create [...]

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    4 Chapter 2 Procedures Complete the following procedures as an adm inistrator (administrator privileges are required). S tep 1: Copy the C Class ThinOS Conversion Image Folder to Y our Local Hard Drive Navigate to the C Class ThinOS Conversion Image folder (contained on the Conversion Sof tware Assembly CD-ROM ) and co py it to your local har d dri[...]

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    Converting Wyse C Class to ThinOS 5 2. Click Next to open the Select an Op tion dialog box. Figure 4 Configuration o ptions 3. Select the Configure a single USB key to Copy or Up date firmware option, and then click Next to open the Select t he Configuration dialog box. Figure 5 Up date f irmware optio ns 4. Select the WTOS / Xenith OS type option.[...]

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    6 Chapter 2 Figure 7 Browse to select command sXml.xml 8. Navigate to the C Class ThinOS Conversion Image folder on your hard drive (t his is the location you selected in "S te p 1: Copy the C Class ThinOS Conversion Image Folde r to Y our Local Hard Drive"), click on the commandsXml.xml file to select it (you may need to select the All F[...]

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    Converting Wyse C Class to ThinOS 7 S tep 4: Use the Configured USB Key to Install Firmware on Each Thin Client On each thin client yo u want to conver t, use t he one-time boot menu to configure it to boo t from the configured USB key (the one-time boot menu will not modify your default BIOS configurations). T o enter and use the on e-time boot me[...]

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    8 Chapter 2 S tep 6: Attach a Wyse Conversion Label on Each Converted Thin Client The conversion kit is supplied with Wyse Conversi on Labels that must be att ached to each thin client as shown in Figure 9. Be sure you have purchased the amoun t of labels you need. Caution Failure to inst all the labels may cause delays in service and support. The [...]

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    Converting Wyse C Class to ThinOS 9 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 proble ms booting from a conf[...]

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    Inst allation Guide Wys e ® C Class Conversion to ThinOS Issue: 0329 1 1 Written and publishe d by: Wyse T echnology Inc., March 20 1 1 Created using FrameMake r ® and Acrobat ®[...]