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Philippines Slovak Republic Switzerland Poland Slovenia UK Portugal Spain USA Romania Sweden Information about Intel® AMT Your computer might support Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) depending on the model you purchased. Using built-in platform capabilities and popular third-party management and security applications, Intel® AMT allows IT to better discover, heal, and protect their networked computing assets. Consult with your system administrator about configurations of the AMT function before connecting to a network. Disable the AMT function Intel® AMT function is enabled by default, and in a situation where no system administrator presents, it is strongly recommended that you turn off the AMT function before connecting to a network. If the AMT function is NOT turned off, there is a danger that the management of AMT function will be abused by other parties which possibly lead to the leak of sensitive and/or proprietary information, data loss, HDD/SSD erasure, or file overwritten. First, you must do the following in the BIOS setup utility: 1. Turn on the computer while pressing the F2 key. 2. On the BIOS setup utility screen, change AMT Setup Prompt to Enabled. 3. Press the F10 key, and press Y key to save the settings. When the computer restarts, the message "Press < Ctrl - P > to enter Intel(R) ME Setup" appears. Press CTRL + P to enter the MEBx Setup. To disable the AMT function, do the following: 1. Select MEBx Login, and enter the default password "admin" in the password field. User's Manual 7-14

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Romania
Slovak Republic
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Switzerland
UK
USA
Information about Intel
®
AMT
Your computer might support Intel
®
Active Management Technology (AMT)
depending on the model you purchased.
Using built-in platform capabilities and popular third-party management and
security applications, Intel
®
AMT allows IT to better discover, heal, and
protect their networked computing assets.
Consult with your system administrator about configurations of the AMT
function before connecting to a network.
Disable the AMT function
Intel
®
AMT function is enabled by default, and in a situation where no
system administrator presents, it is strongly recommended that you turn off
the AMT function before connecting to a network.
If the AMT function is NOT turned off, there is a danger that the
management of AMT function will be abused by other parties which
possibly lead to the leak of sensitive and/or proprietary information,
data loss, HDD/SSD erasure, or file overwritten.
First, you must do the following in the BIOS setup utility:
1.
Turn on the computer while pressing the
F2
key.
2.
On the BIOS setup utility screen, change AMT Setup Prompt to
Enabled
.
3.
Press the
F10
key, and press
Y
key to save the settings.
When the computer restarts, the message “Press < Ctrl - P > to enter
Intel(R) ME Setup” appears. Press
CTRL
+
P
to enter the MEBx Setup.
To disable the AMT function, do the following:
1.
Select
MEBx Login
, and enter the default password “admin” in the
password field.
User's Manual
7-14