Dell Precision 7960 Tower Service Manual page 126

Table 12. System setup options—Security menu (continued)
Security
UEFI Boot Path Security
Authenticated BIOS Interface
Enable Authenticated BIOS Interface
Legacy Manageability Interface
Access
Table 13. System setup options—Update, Recovery menu
Update, Recovery
UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates
BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive
BIOS Downgrade
Allow BIOS Downgrade
SupportAssist OS Recovery
BIOSConnect
Dell Auto OS Recovery Threshold
Table 14. System setup options—System Management menu
System Management
Service Tag
126 BIOS setup
Persistence cannot be re-enabled. No further changes to the
Enable/Disable states are allowed.
NOTE: The Enable/Disable options will be unavailable while Computrace is
in the activated state.
Controls whether the system prompt the user to enter the admin password (if
set) when booting to a UEFI boot path device from the F12 boot menu.
By default, the Always Except Internal HDD option is enabled.
Enable or disable the authenticated BIOS interface.
By default, the option is disabled.
Allows the platform administrator to control access through the Legacy
Manageability Interface Access when ABI is enabled and provisioned.
By default, the option is enabled.
Enable or disable BIOS updates through UEFI capsule update packages.
NOTE: Disabling this option blocks BIOS updates from services such as
Microsoft Windows Update and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).
By default, the option is enabled.
Enables the user to recover from certain corrupted BIOS conditions from a
recovery file on the user primary hard drive or an external USB key.
By default, the option is enabled.
NOTE: BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive is not available for self-encrypting
drives (SED).
This field controls the flashing of the system firmware to previous revisions.
By default, the option is enabled.
Enable or disable the boot flow for SupportAssist OS Recovery tool in the
event of certain system errors.
By default, the option is enabled.
Enable or disable cloud Service operating system recovery if the main operating
system fails to boot with the number of failures equal to or greater than the
value specified by the Auto operating system Recovery Threshold setup option
and local Service operating system does not boot or is not installed.
By default, the option is enabled.
Controls the automatic boot flow for SupportAssist System Resolution Console
and for Dell operating system Recovery Tool.
By default, the threshold value is set to 2.
Displays the Service Tag of the system.