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Maintenance
BIOS Recovery from Hard Drive
BIOS Auto-Recovery
Start Data Wipe
Allow BIOS Downgrade
Table 41. System setup options—System Logs menu
System Logs
Power Event Log
BIOS Event Log
Thermal Event Log
Table 42. System setup options—SupportAssist menu
SupportAssist
Dell Auto operating system Recovery
Threshold
SupportAssist operating system Recovery
Clearing BIOS (System Setup) and System passwords
About this task
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.
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.
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.
Displays Power events.
Default: Keep.
Displays BIOS events.
Default: Keep.
Displays Thermal events.
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.
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