Clearing Cmos Settings; Clearing Bios (System Setup) And System Passwords - Dell Inspiron 3584 Service Manual

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Table 10. System setup options—Wireless menu
Wireless
Wireless Switch
Wireless Device Enable
Table 11. System setup options—Maintenance menu
Maintenance
Service Tag
Asset Tag
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

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.
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.
Determine which wireless devices can be controlled by the Wireless Switch.
Enable or disable internal wireless devices.
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.
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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