15$ Dell Wyse 5060 Thin Client

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Samir

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jibsaramnim said:
You're probably right. (Partially) Answering my own question; I installed XP SP3 on my Wyse using WinSetupFromUSB, which worked surprisingly smoothly — I had not tried this before, it's been years since I did anything with Windows, let alone XP. I got missing drivers to install using SDIO, all except one; graphics. As it turns out, drivers for the Radeon R5E were never made available for Windows XP, only (seemingly) Windows 7 and onward. I did try a bit of .inf modification shenanigans to see if I could get something working, but I did not get that lucky. I was able to get a driver to install but it would fail to start, with Windows listing it with one of those yellow exclamation points and saying something went wrong with it and the driver couldn't load.

That's as far as I got. It's a bit of a shame, as it otherwise was a very smoth process with sound and ethernet and everything working with just a few drivers needed. I wonder if someone more knowledgeable would be able to figure this out more easily, sadly I'm not all too familiar with this and a quick search seems to show that no-one else tried or succeeded to get later AMD drivers (as in, anything after Catalyst v14, the last one released for XP) backported.
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There's some good notes on what these can do a retro gaming consoles, including DOS, here:

Using the Wyse 5060 (N07D) Thin Client

Using the Wyse 5060 (N07D) thin client
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I didn't realize what series these are--a couple of generations ago these do have a native xp embedded dom (embedded standard 2009, as it was a option on mine), so xp should install great:

Wyse Z90D7 Thin Client

Hardware description of the Wyse Z50 (Z50S,Z50D) and Wyse Z90 (Z90SW, Z90DW, Z90S7, Z90D7, Z90DER7 ) thin client hardware
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But for any retro computing, the even earlier era thin clients were really great for this, and they're readily available fully set up and ready to go at reasonable prices like this one:
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Wyse V90LE - Windows 98/XP Retro Gaming PC -16GB SSD, 1GB Ram, 1.2GHZ VIA C7 Vx0 | eBay

WYSE Vx0 Retro Gaming PC demonstration - YouTube. -Second partition (7.5 GB) - Windows XP Pro. -NOTE that when booted to Windows 98, you cannot see the Windows XP partition as it is NTFS. -Latest version of Firefox supported by XP.
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Does anybody know if this thing will boot off a NVMe drive plugged into the WiFi port via adapter? Probably not but thought I'd ask.
 
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Fritz said:
Does anybody know if this thing will boot off a NVMe drive plugged into the WiFi port via adapter? Probably not but thought I'd ask.
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RolloZ170 said:
sure not.
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A version of iPXE with an NVMe driver has been made into an option ROM that works with Phoenix BIOS on ThinkPads: NVMe BIOS Option ROM

If you're willing to put some work into it and take the risk of bricking your 5060, it might be possible to mod it into the 5060 BIOS also. It can be put on a thumb drive, so first step would be to try that, and if it works from a thumb drive, then take the plunge into BIOS modding.

There is also a hacked version of the VMware NVMe option ROM for the same purpose, but it looks like that one has mostly been used with AMI BIOS: [Experimental] NVMe Option ROM
 
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aeg said:
A version of iPXE with an NVMe driver has been made into an option ROM that works with Phoenix BIOS on ThinkPads: NVMe BIOS Option ROM

If you're willing to put some work into it and take the risk of bricking your 5060, it might be possible to mod it into the 5060 BIOS also. It can be put on a thumb drive, so first step would be to try that, and if it works from a thumb drive, then take the plunge into BIOS modding.

There is also a hacked version of the VMware NVMe option ROM for the same purpose, but it looks like that one has mostly been used with AMI BIOS: [Experimental] NVMe Option ROM
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thank you sir. I have 3 of them so I'm going to give it a try.
 
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If anyone is looking for the base, here it is. brand new, screws included. I ordered 3 of them and yes, they do fit the 5060.

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57587 Dell, Inc WYSE 5000 5010 5020 Thin Vertical SERIES STAND 8" | eBay

57587 Dell, Inc WYSE 5000 5010 5020 Thin Vertical SERIES STAND 8" Brand: Dell Part number: 57587 MPN: 57587-057587-CN-057587 Type: Stand Model: 5020 Compatiblity: Compatible Line: Wyse Compatible Model: Dell Wyse 5000 5010 5020 Condition: Seller Refurbished This item will be shipped exactly as...
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Hey,
I have a unit that is running windows 10. I’m wanting to run Debian which I can do but I’m having issues updating the bios. Anyone able to walk me through how to update the bios?
I’m on 1.0H and wanting to upgrade to 1.0K.

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i picked one of these up a while back and turned it into a proxmox backup server after adding another 4GB of ram. it was quite the ordeal to get to the open slot on that board. i have a usb 3.0 external drive for backups since it does support usb 3.0. nice little server!
 
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