System Management - Dell Vostro 5501 Service Manual

Table 11. Update and recovery(continued)
Option
BIOS Recovery from Hard
Drive
BIOS Downgrade
SupportAssist OS
Recovery
BIOSConnect
Dell Auto OS Recovery
Threshold

System management

Table 12. System management
Option
Service Tag
Asset Tag
AC Behavior
Auto On Time
Description
Allows you to recover BIOS on the primary hard drive or USB drive in corrupted conditions.
BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive - By default, this option is enabled.
NOTE: BIOS Recovery from hard drives is not available for Self-Encrypting Drives (SED).
Allows you to control flashing of the system firmware to previous versions.
Allow BIOS Downgrade - By default, this option is enabled.
Allows you to enable or disable the boot flow for SupportAssist OS Recovery if there are certain system
errors.
SupportAssist OS Recovery - By default, this option is enabled.
NOTE: If SupportAssist OS Recovery setup option is disabled, then all the automatic boot
flow for SupportAssist OS Recovery tool is disabled.
Allows you to recover cloud service operating system if the main operating system and/or local service
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.
BIOSConnect - By default, this option is enabled.
The Auto OS Recovery threshold setup options control the automatic flow for SupportAssist System
Resolution Console and for Dell OS Recovery Tool.
The options are:
• Off
• 1
• 2 - Default
• 3
Description
Displays the service tag of your computer.
An Asset Tag is a string of 64 characters that are used by IT administrator to uniquely identify a particular
system. On an asset tag is set, it cannot be changed.
Allows you to enable or disable the computer from turning on automatically when an AC adapter is
connected.
Wake on AC
By default, this option is disabled.
This setting allows a system to automatically power on for defined days/time.
The options are:
• Disabled - This option is enabled by default.
• Every Day
• Weekdays
• Select Days
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