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Password Authentication

If a supervisor password is already set, you must specify that supervisor password

before you can change any BIOS settings.

The format for password parameters is "abc,ascii,us" with descriptions in Table 3.

Table 3. Password parameters format, password authentication

Parameter

Description

Parameter 1

Current password

Parameter 2

Password encoding

Parameter 3

Keyboard languages

(valid only if encoding is "ascii")

Available BIOS setting names

Some BIOS settings are dependent on the presence of certain hardware features.

Settings might vary on different computers.

Notes:

1. BIOS settings and values are case sensitive.

2. The security-related options are not changed even if the "load default" is

Table 4. List of available BIOS settings

Item name

WakeOnLAN

FlashOverLAN

EthernetLANOptionROM

HarddriveDMA

WirelessLANAndWiMAXRadios

SerialPort

SerialPortIO

SerialPortIRQ

ParallelPort

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Table 2. Return Types (continued)

Return Type

Description

System Busy

BIOS changes have already been made that need to be committed. Reboot

the system and try again

requested.

Selection name

"Enable", "Disable"

"3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8"

"3", "4", "5", "7"

"Enable", "Disable"

Possible selections

v "abc" - raw ascii character

v "1e302e" - scancode

v "ascii"

v "scancode"

v "us" - English US, English UK,

Chinese-Traditional, Danish, Dutch,

French-Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,

Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,

Spanish-European, Spanish-Latin American,

Swiss, Turkish

v "fr" - French-European, Belgian

v "gr" - German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian

Load default?