Clearing Cmos Settings; Clearing Bios (System Setup) And System Passwords - Dell Inspiron 5482 Service Manual

Table 11. System setup options—Maintenance menu
Maintenance
Service Tag
Asset Tag
BIOS Downgrade
Data Wipe
BIOS Recovery
First Power On Date
Table 12. System setup options—System Logs menu
System Logs
BIOS Events
Thermal Events
Power Events
Table 13. System setup options—SupportAssist System Resolution menu
SupportAssist System Resolution
Auto OS Recovery Threshold
SupportAssist OS Recovery
Identifier
Status

Clearing CMOS settings

CAUTION: Clearing CMOS settings will reset the BIOS settings on your computer.
1 Remove the base cover.
2 Disconnect the battery cable from the system board.
3 Remove the coin-cell battery.
4 Wait for one minute.
5 Replace the coin-cell battery.
6 Connect the battery cable to the system board.
7 Replace the base cover.
Identifier
Status

Clearing BIOS (System Setup) and System passwords

To clear the system or BIOS passwords, contact Dell technical support as described at www.dell.com/contactdell.
Display the system's Service Tag.
Create a system Asset Tag.
Control flashing of the system firmware to previous revisions.
Enable to securely erase data from all internal storage devices.
Enable the user to recover from certain corrupted BIOS conditions from a recovery
file on the user primary hard drive or an external USB key.
Sets ownership date.
Display BIOS events.
Display the Thermal events.
Display the Power events.
Control the automatic boot flow for SupportAssist System Resolution Console and for
the Dell OS Recovery tool.
Enable or disable the boot flow for the SupportAssist OS Recovery tool when certain
system errors.
GUID-CA599AD5-9996-4BE8-9643-1C626DB94E2D
Released
GUID-5941E06E-ABCB-4468-ACE5-D51EF6AAA083
Released
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