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dLang;" Notes: 1. See Appendix A, "Sample Visual Basic scripts for configuring BIOS settings,"on page 19 for Visual Basic sample scripts. 2. See Table 4 on page 6 for a listing of acceptable setting names. Return types You will receive one of the following return types after making changes to BIOS settings: Table 2. Return Types Return Type Description Success Operation completed successfully. Not Supported The feature is not supported on this system. Invalid Parameter The item or value provided is not valid. Access Denied The change could not be made due to an authentication problem. If a supervisor password exists, the correct supervisor password must be provided. System Busy BIOS changes have already been made that need to be committed. Reboot the system and try again Password Authentication If an Administrator password is already set, you must specify that administrator 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 Possible selections Parameter 1 Current password ·"abc" - raw ascii character ·"1e302e" - scancode Parameter 2 Password encoding Parameter 3 Keyboard languages (valid only if encoding is ″ascii″) ·"ascii" ·"scancode" ·″us″ - English US, English, French-Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish-European, Spanish-Latin American, Swiss, Turkish ·″fr″ - French-European, Belgian ·″gr″ - German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian @Copyright Lenovo 2012 5

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@Copyright Lenovo 2012
5
Notes:
1.
See Appendix A,
“Sample
Visual Basic scripts for configuring
BIOS
settings,”
on page 19 for Visual Basic sample scripts.
2.
See Table 4 on page 6 for a listing of acceptable setting names.
Return types
You will receive one of the following return types after making
changes to BIOS settings:
Table 2. Return Types
Return Type
Description
Success
Operation completed successfully.
Not
Supported
The feature is not supported on this system.
Invalid
Parameter
The item or value provided is not valid.
Access
Denied
The change could not be made due to an authentication
problem. If a supervisor password exists, the correct supervisor
password must be provided.
System Busy
BIOS changes have already been made that need to be
committed. Reboot the system and try again
Password Authentication
If an Administrator password is already set, you must specify that
administrator 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
Possible selections
Parameter 1
Current password
·
“abc”
- raw ascii character
·
“1e302e”
scancode
Parameter 2
Password encoding
·
“ascii”
·
“scancode”
Parameter 3
Keyboard languages
(valid only if encoding is
ascii
)
·
us
- English US, English,
French-Canadian, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese,
Spanish-European, Spanish-Latin
American, Swiss, Turkish
·
fr
- French-European, Belgian
·
gr
- German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian
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