2-2 Workstation 5A Setup Guide - Fourth Edition
Workstation 5A BIOS
The BIOS System Configuration Utility
The BIOS System Configuration Utility
In 2008, Phoenix Technologies purchased General Software which provided
the BIOS for the Workstation 5 and Workstation 4 LX. The General Software
Embedded BIOS 2000 (EB2K) is now called the Phoenix EB(SF) Embedded
BIOS with StrongFrame
®
Technology, and Firmbase
®
Technology.
The custom Firmbase applications such as Flash CE and Windows CE Factory
Restore, originally developed for the Workstation 5 carry forward to the
Workstation 5A.
Starting the BIOS System Configuration Utility
1. Connect a USB Keyboard to one of the USB ports located on the IO panel.
2. Power-up or restart the workstation.
3. When the BIOS Splash screen shown below appears, press the [DEL] key
.
Figure 2-1: Workstation 5A BIOS Splash Screen
The MICROS BIOS Version is always displayed in the upper left hand
corner of the splash screen as shown in the Figure above.
Up to four Workstation 5A BIOS Versions have been deployed. Each is
detailed in the following pages.
• BIOS Version Q1000g shipped on Revision D System Boards until July
2012.
• BIOS Version Q1010m was released as part of a CE Platform update to
introduce support for SparkLan Mini-PCI WiFi Card.
• BIOS Version Q2010g released as part of the Windows CE GR2.0
Platform update.