Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC BIOS User guide
- About this guide
- New in this release
- BIOS
- BIOS setup
- How to boot into BIOS settings after upgrade
- How to retrieve a VEP4600 product service tag
- How to change the default BIOS password
- Password reset
- Hardware flow control
- Super IO configuration
- Boot order
- Server management
- Option ROM dispatch policy
- SR-IOV support
- USB 3.0
- PXE and HTTP boot support
- Network interface configuration
- Advanced power management
- Trusted computing
- Embedded DIAGS
- Dell EMC support
New in this release
New features and bug fixes history.
Topics:
• BIOS
BIOS
New features and version history.
BIOS 3.41.0.9-18
New Features and bug fixes:
1. Beginning with BIOS VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-18.BIN Dell has introduced a BIOS setup manual admin user password.
a. If your system is running BIOS VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-18.BIN or later the BIOS setup manual admin user password is
<servicetag>!
NOTE: The password is case sensitive. The password must match servicetag exactly.
NOTE: For example if the service tag is: GWGRG02 then the password is GWGRG02!
i. Setup admin user manual password: <servicetag>!
b. If your system is running less than BIOS VEP4600-BIOS-3.41.0.9-18.BIN there is no default setup manual admin user
password.
NOTE: No password is required for setup manual user account.
2. New Intel microcode with security vulnerability fixes (microcode 0x02009606)
3. Update AMI BakervillePkg to label 29 to fix security vulnerability.
NOTE:
Because there are some new add NVRAM variables in BakervillePkg_29, the BIOS Setup settings cannot be
preserved when upgrading to BIOS 3.41.0.9-17
BIOS 3.41.0.9-16
New Features and bug fixes:
1. Micro code security-related fixes
2. Intel security vulnerabilities
a. Intel-SA-00240: Intel CPU Local Privilege Escalation Advisory
i. CVE-2019-0151
ii. CVE-2019-0152
b. Intel-SA-00280:
i. CVE-2019-1113
ii. CVE-2019-11137
c. Intel-SA-00255:
i. CVE-2019-0139
ii. CVE-2019-0140
iii. CVE-2019-0144
iv. CVE-2019-0150
d. Intel-SA-00270:
i. CVE-2019-11135
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