- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Working on your computer
- Technology and components
- Major components of your system
- Removing and installing components
- BIOS setup
- Troubleshooting
- Getting help
Option | Description |
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Strong Password | This option lets you enable or disable strong passwords for the system. The option is disabled by default. |
Password Configuration | Allows you to control the minimum and maximum number of characters allowed for a administrative password and the system password. The range of characters is between 4 and 32. |
Password Bypass | This option lets you bypass the System (Boot) Password
and the internal HDD password prompts during a system restart.
NOTE The system
will always prompt for the system and internal HDD passwords when
powered on from the off state (a cold boot). Also, the system will
always prompt for passwords on any module bay HDDs that may be present. |
Password Change | This option lets you determine whether changes
to the System and Hard Disk passwords are permitted when an administrator
password is set. Allow Non-Admin Password Changes - This option is enabled by default. |
UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates | This option controls whether this system allows BIOS updates via UEFI capsule update packages. This option is selected by default. Disabling this option will block BIOS updates from services such as Microsoft Windows Update and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) |
TPM 2.0 Security | Allows you to control whether the Trusted Platform
Module (TPM) is visible to the operating system.
Choose any one option:
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Absolute | This field lets you Enable, Disable or Permanently Disable the BIOS module interface of the optional Absolute Persistence Module service from Absolute Software.
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Chassis Intrusion | This field controls the chassis intrusion feature. Choose any one of the option:
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OROM Keyboard Access |
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Admin Setup Lockout | Allows you to prevent users from entering Setup when Admin password is set. This option is not set by default. |
SMM Security Mitigation | Allows you to enable or disable additional UEFI SMM Security Mitigation protections. This option is not set by default. |