Dell Precision 5550 Service Manual page 56

Table 14. System setup options—POST Behavior menu(continued)
POST Behavior
Extend BIOS POST Time
Full Screen Logo
Mouse/Touchpad
Sign of Life
Early Logo Display
Early Keyboard Backlight
MAC Address Pass-Through
Table 15. System setup options—Virtualization menu
Virtualization
Intel Virtualization Technology
VT for Direct I/O
Table 16. System setup options—Maintenance menu
Maintenance
Asset Tag
Asset Tag
Service Tag
BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive
BIOS Auto-Recovery
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Default: Thorough. Performs complete hardware and configuration initialization during
boot.
Configures the BIOS POST (Power-On Self-Test) load time.
Default: 0 seconds
Enabled or disabled the computer to display full screen logo if the image match
screen resolution.
Default: OFF
Defines how the computer handles mouse and touchpad input.
Default: Touchpad and PS/2 Mouse. Leave the integrated touchpad enabled when an
external PS/2 mouse is present.
Display Logo Sign of Life.
Default: ON
Keyboard Backlight Sign of Life.
Default: ON
Replaces the external NIC MAC address (in a supported dock or dongle) with the
selected MAC address from the computer.
Default: System Unique MAC Address.
Enables the computer to run a virtual machine monitor (VMM).
Default: ON
Enables the computer to perform Virtualization Technology for Direct I/O (VT-d).
VT-d is an Intel method that provides virtualization for memory map I/O.
Default: ON
Creates a system Asset Tag that can be used by an IT administrator to uniquely
identify a particular system. Once set in BIOS, the Asset Tag cannot be changed.
Displays the Service Tag of the computer.
Enables the computer to recover from a bad BIOS image, as long as the Boot Block
portion is intact and functioning.
Default: ON
NOTE: BIOS recovery is designed to fix the main BIOS block and cannot
work if the Boot Block is damaged. In addition, this feature cannot work
in the event of EC corruption, ME corruption, or a hardware issue. The
recovery image must exist on an unencrypted partition on the drive.
Enables the computer to automatically recover the BIOS without user actions. This
feature requires BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive to be set to Enabled.