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Maintenance
BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive
BIOS Auto-Recovery
Start Data Wipe
Allow BIOS Downgrade
Table 16. System setup options—System Logs menu
System Logs
Power Event Log
Clear POWER Event Log
BIOS Event Log
Clear Bios Event Log
Thermal Event Log
Clear Thermal Event Log
Table 17. System setup options—SupportAssist menu
SupportAssist
Dell Auto operating system Recovery
Threshold
SupportAssist OS Recovery
BIOSConnect
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System setup
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 (only
for computers shipped with hard 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.
Default: OFF
CAUTION:
This Secure Wipe Operation will delete information in a way
that it cannot be reconstructed.
If enabled, the BIOS will queue up a data wipe cycle for storage devices that are
connected to the motherboard on the next reboot.
Default: OFF
Controls flashing of the system firmware to previous revisions.
Default: ON
Selects an option to keep or clear the POWER Event log.
Default: Keep
Selects an option to keep or clear the Bios Event log.
Default: Keep
Selects an option to keep or clear the Thermal Event log.
Default: Keep
Controls the automatic boot flow for SupportAssist System Resolution Console and
for Dell operating system Recovery tool.
Default: 2
Enables or disables the boot flow for SupportAssist operating system Recovery tool
in the even of certain system errors.
Default: ON
Enables or disables attempting cloud Service OS recovery.
Default: ON
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