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Password Authentication, Available BIOS setting names

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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 ʺabc,ascii,usʺ with descriptions in Table 3. Table 3. Password parameters format, password authentication Parameter Parameter 1 Description Current password Parameter 2 Password encoding Parameter 3 Keyboard languages (valid only if encoding is ″ascii″) Possible selections ·"abc" ‐raw ascii character ·"1e302e"-scancode ·"ascii" ·"scancode" ·″us″‐English US, English, French‐Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish‐European, Spanish‐LatinAmerican, Swiss, Turkish ·″fr″‐French‐European,Belgian ·″gr″‐German,Czech,Slovak,Slovenian 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. "Load Defaults" will only change the values for BIOS settings that can be changed via the WMI interface. Table 4. List of Available BIOS settings for S20 Item Name Selection Name Load "Legacy Diskette A" "Serial Port A" "Disabled", "Enabled" Y "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y "Serial A Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y "Serial A Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y "Serial Port B" "Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic" Y "Serial B Base IO Address" "3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8" Y "Serial B Interrupt" "IRQ3", "IRQ4" Y "USB Support" "Disabled", "Enabled" Y "USB Front Ports" "Disabled", "Enabled" Y "USB Card Reader" "Disabled", "Enabled" Y "Serial ATA" "Disabled", "Enabled Y "Native Mode Operation" "Automatic", "Serial ATA" Y Lenovo BIOS Windows Management Instrumentation Interface Deployment Guide for Workstations 4

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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
ʺ
abc,ascii,us
ʺ
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
LatinAmerican, Swiss, Turkish
·
fr
French
European,Belgian
·
gr
German,Czech,Slovak,Slovenian
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.
"Load Defaults" will only change the values for BIOS
settings that can be change
d
via t
he
WMI interface.
Table 4. List of Available BIOS settings for S20
Item Name
Selection Name
Load
"Legacy Diskette A"
“Disabled”,
“Enabled”
Y
"Serial Port A"
"Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic"
Y
"Serial A Base IO Address"
"3F8", "2F8",
"3E8", "2E8"
Y
"Serial A Interrupt"
"IRQ3", "IRQ4"
Y
"Serial Port B"
"Disabled", "Enabled", "Automatic"
Y
"Serial B Base IO Address"
"3F8", "2F8", "3E8", "2E8"
Y
"Serial B Interrupt"
"IRQ3", "IRQ4"
Y
"USB Support"
“Disabled”, “Enabled”
Y
"USB Front Ports"
“Disabled”, “Enabled”
Y
"USB Card Reader"
“Disabled”, “Enabled”
Y
“Serial ATA”
“Disabled”, “Enabled
Y
"Native Mode Operation"
"Automatic", "Serial ATA"
Y
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