Chapter 3. Typical Usage; Listing Current Bios Settings; Changing Bios Settings; Changing The Boot Order - Lenovo ThinkPad T500 User Manual

Chapter 3. Typical usage

Through WMI, you can configure BIOS settings in the following ways:
v List BIOS settings
v Change BIOS settings
v Change the boot order (sometimes referred to as the startup sequence)
v Load default BIOS settings

Listing current BIOS settings

For a list of all available BIOS settings that can be changed through WMI on a
specific computer, use the Lenovo_BiosSetting class (see "List all BIOS settings on
the local computer" on page 13 and "List all BIOS settings on the remote
computer" on page 15 for sample scripts).
See Table 4 on page 4 for a list of available BIOS settings.

Changing BIOS settings

To change a BIOS setting, complete the following steps:
1. Identify the BIOS setting you want to change using the Lenovo_BiosSetting
2. Identify the value to which the setting will be changed.
3. Change the BIOS setting to the desired value using the Lenovo_SetBiosSetting
After making changes to the BIOS settings, you must reboot the computer before
the changes will take effect.

Changing the boot order

To change the boot order, complete the following steps:
1. Determine the current setting for "BootOrder" by using the Lenovo_BiosSetting
2. To set a new boot order, use the Lenovo_SetBiosSetting class, then use the
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class (see "List all BIOS settings on the local computer" on page 13 and "List
all BIOS settings on the remote computer" on page 15 for sample scripts).
Note: See Table 4 on page 4 for a list of available values for a particular setting.
class, then use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting class to save the settings (see "Set a
single BIOS setting on the local computer" on page 14 and"Set a single BIOS
setting on a remote computer" on page 16 for sample scripts).
Note: BIOS settings and values are case sensitive.
class (see "List all BIOS settings on the local computer" on page 13 and "List
all BIOS settings on the remote computer" on page 15 for sample scripts).
Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting class to save the settings (see "Set a single BIOS setting
on the local computer" on page 14 and"Set a single BIOS setting on a remote
computer" on page 16 for sample scripts). Specify a new boot order by listing
the boot devices in order, separated by colons. Devices that are not specified
are excluded from the boot order. In the following example, the CD drive 0 is
the first boot device and hard disk drive 0 is the second startup device.
ATAPICD0:HDD0
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