Chapter 3. Typical Usage; Listing Current Bios Settings; Changing Bios Settings; Changing The Boot Order - Lenovo ThinkCentre M58 Deployment Manual

Chapter 3. Typical Usage

Listing current BIOS settings

Changing BIOS settings

Changing the boot order

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Through WMI, you can configure BIOS settings in the
following ways:
·List BIOS settings
·Change BIOS settings
· Change the boot order (sometimes referred to as the startup
sequence)
·Load default BIOS settings
For a list of all available BIOS settings that can be changed
through WMI on a specific computer, use the
Lenovo_BiosSetting class (see "List all BIOS settings on the
local computer" on page 12 and "List all BIOS settings on the
remote computer" on page 14 for sample scripts).
See Table 4 on page 4 for a list of available BIOS settings.
To change a BIOS setting, complete the following steps:
1. Identify the BIOS setting you want to change using the
Lenovo_BiosSetting class (see "List all BIOS settings on the local
computer" on page 12 and "List all BIOS settings on the remote
computer" on page 14 for sample scripts).
2. Identify the value to which the setting will be changed.
Note: See Table 4 on page 4 for a list of available values for a
particular setting.
3. Change the BIOS setting to the desired value using the
Lenovo_SetBiosSetting class, then use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSetting
class to save the settings (see "Set a single BIOS setting on the local
computer" on page 12 and "Set a single BIOS setting on a remote
computer" on page 14 for sample scripts).
Note: BIOS settings and values are case sensitive.
After making changes to the BIOS settings, you must reboot the
computer before the changes will take effect.
To change the boot order, complete the following steps:
Determine the current setting for "BootOrder" by using the
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