bios reset on dell poweredge blades

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I had never heard of this trick so I thought I’d pass it along as I just got it from Dell. This may be OEM, so it may apply to other hardware.

Enter BIOS
Turn on num, caps and scroll lock
Press ALT-E to erase the nvram
Press ALT-F to load factory defaults
Press ALT-B to reboot.

I did this through a KVMoIP so I wasn’t sure it was working until the ALT-B when the box did reset.

6 thoughts on “bios reset on dell poweredge blades”

AZA Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:45:09 -0700 at 4:45 am

its not correct cause i supose if thats worked the time of machine will be back to the manufactured time
btm Post authorWed, 26 Aug 2009 04:52:47 -0700 at 4:52 am

That’s quite the supposition. It did reset the settings for me. I don’t know about the time, frankly I didn’t care about resetting the time.
MArio Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:50:29 -0700 at 2:50 pm

its work fine for me i dont need time to reset only settings thx dude !!
Josh Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:30:16 -0700 at 9:30 am

This appears to also work for PowerEdge R610 rackmounts. Thanks!
TheDeepFriedBoot Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:38:48 -0700 at 11:38 pm

Works with the Dell Poweredge 800 as well.
Ali Baba Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:41:07 -0700 at 8:41 pm

work on poweredge t310 🙂 thanks