Clearing Cmos Settings; Clearing Bios (System Setup) And System Passwords - Dell G5 5590 Service Manual

Maintenance
BIOS Downgrade
Data Wipe
BIOS Recovery
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 solid-state drive/Intel
4 Remove the coin-cell battery.
5 Wait for one minute.
6 Replace the coin-cell battery.
7 Replace the solid-state drive/Intel
8 Connect the battery cable to the system board.
9 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.
NOTE: For information on how to reset Windows or application passwords, refer to the documentation accompanying Windows
or your application.
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.
Display BIOS events.
Display Thermal events.
Display Power events.
Control the automatic boot flow for SupportAssist System Resolution Console and for
Dell OS Recovery tool.
Enable or disable the boot flow for SupportAssist OS Recovery tool in the even of
certain system errors.
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