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only if the system supports the following features: Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), Extended
Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), PCI, Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association (PC Card/PCMCIA), PnP, Advanced power management (APM), Upgradeable BIOS,
BIOS Shadowing allowed, Video Electronics Standards Association (VL VESA), Extended System
Conguration Data (ESCD).
• 32 to 47 are always set to 0 by Dell-developed BIOS.
• 48 sets to 1 if the built-in NIC supports MagicPacket.
• 49 sets to 1 if the system supports Wake-on-LAN.
• 50 sets to 1 if the system supports chassis intrusion.
• 51 sets to 1 if the built-in NIC supports pattern-matching.
• 52 sets to 1 if the system BIOS supports a seven character service tag.
• 53 to 63 are reserved for future assignments.
--biosconnect
Valid Argument enable, disable
Description
Enables or disables BIOS Connect feature.
--biosconnectactivation
Valid Argument deactivate, fullactivation, launchpadactivationonly
Description
Congures the state of the available BiosConnect boot paths.
• deactivate — BIOS setup options are not available and all BiosConnect boot paths are
disabled.
• fullactivation — BIOS Setup options are enabled and all BiosConnect boot paths are enabled.
• launchpadactivationonly — BIOS setup options are enabled and only launchpad code path is
enabled.
--bioscurlang
Valid Argument
Read-only
Description Displays the selected language for the BIOS.
--biosdowngrade
Valid Argument
enable, disable
Description
Allows or restricts downgrading of the system BIOS.
• enable — Allows the system to downgrade the system BIOS.
• disable — Restricts the system to downgrade the system BIOS.
CAUTION: You cannot enable the biosdowngrade feature using the Dell Command |
Congure.
NOTE: One of the methods of enabling the biosdowngrade feature is from the BIOS
setup screen.
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