Password Authentication; Available Bios Setting Names - Lenovo ThinkPad T400 Deployment Manual

Table 2. Return Types (continued)
Return Type Description
Access Denied The change could not be made due to an authentication problem. If a supervisor password exists,
the correct supervisor password must be provided.
System Busy BIOS changes have already been made that need to be committed. Reboot the system and try
again

Password Authentication

If a supervisor password is already set, you must specify that supervisor password before you can change
any BIOS settings.
The format for password parameters is "abc,ascii,us" with descriptions in the following table.
Table 3. Password parameters format, password authentication
Parameter Description
Parameter Current password
1
Parameter Password encoding
2
Parameter Keyboard languages
3 (valid only if encoding is "ascii")

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. The security-related options are not changed even if the "load default" is requested.
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Possible selections
• "abc" - raw ascii character
• "1e302e" - scancode
• "ascii"
• "scancode"
• "us" - English US, English UK,
Chinese-Traditional, Danish, Dutch,
French-Canadian, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Spanish-European, Spanish-Latin American,
Swiss, Turkish
• "fr" - French-European, Belgian
• "gr" - German, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian