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Restoring default settings

To restore default BIOS settings, use the Lenovo_LoadDefaultSettings class, then

use the Lenovo_SaveBiosSettings class to save the BIOS changes (see sample

scripts).

Changing an existing hardware password

To update a password, specify a password type and format the password. The

format for password parameters is "pop,abc,def,ascii,us" with descriptions in

Table 5 (see "Set a supervisor password on the local computer when a supervisor

password exists" on page 18 and "Set a supervisor password on a remote

computer when a supervisor password exists" on page 18 for sample scripts).

Table 5. Password parameters format, changing existing hardware password

Parameter

Description

Parameter 1

Password type string

Parameter 2

Current password string

Parameter 3

New password string

Parameter 4

Password encoding

Parameter 5

Keyboard languages

Limitations

The following WMI limitations exist for BIOS setup:

v BIOS settings cannot be changed at the same boot as power-on passwords (POP)

v A password cannot be set using this method when one does not already exist.

Lenovo BIOS Windows Management Instrumentation Interface Deployment Guide

and hard disk passwords (HDP). If you want to change BIOS settings and POP

or HDP, you must reboot the system after changing one of them.

Passwords can only be updated or cleared.

Possible selections

v "pap": Supervisor

v "POP": Power-on

v "uhdp1": User HDP 1

v "mhdp1": Master HDP 1

v "uhdp2": User HDP 2

v "mhdp2": Master HDP 2

v "uhdp3": User HDP 3

v "mhdp3": Master HDP 3

v "abc" - raw ascii character

v "1e302e" - scancode

v Raw ascii "def"

Scan code "201221"

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