Clear Cmos; Clear Password - QUANTA QuantaGrid S31A-1U User Manual

BIOS
Table 10: Terminology (Continued)
Term
Stock Keeping Unit – indicates a specific marketing package, in this sense based around a
SKU
server board configuration.
SMBIOS System Management BIOS.
SMI System Management Interrupt.
SMM System Management Mode.
SOL Serial Over LAN.
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface, a serial data interface used for Flash memory.
Unbuffered DIMM (also called Unregistered) memory modules do not have a register
UDIMM
between the SDRAM modules and the system's memory controller.
UE or UCE Uncorrectable Error (memory ECC error).
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface – replacement for Legacy BIOS and the Legacy DOS
UEFI
interface.
USB Universal Serial Bus, a standard serial expansion bus meant for connecting peripherals.
UUID Universally Unique Identifier. See also GUID.
WHEA Windows Hardware Error Architecture.

Clear CMOS

The following steps will load the BIOS defaults by jumper:
1. Power down the system.
2. Move CMOS clear jumper from pins 2-3 to pins 1-2 for a few seconds.
3. Move CMOS clear jumper back to pins 2-3.
4. System automatically powers on.
5. Check BIOS defaults are loaded.

Clear Password

1. Power down the system.
2. Move password clear jumper from pins 2-3 to pins 1-2.
3. Power on the system.
4. Make sure password is cleared.
5. Power down the system.
6. Move password clear jumper from pins 1-2 back to pins 2-3.
7. Power on the system.
8. Set new password.
Description
C CMOS
LEAR
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