Dell Products Inc.

Dell USA L.p.

Richard Chan

Austin Patrick Bolen

Samer El Haj Mahmoud

Ricardo Luis Martinez

Stuart William Hayes

William Carl Munger

Joseph A Vivio

Kurt David Gillespie

Janardan Rajagopal Pradeep Gopal

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The BIOS may comprise a program of instructions executable by the processor and configured to cause the processor to initialize one or more information handling resources of the information handling system. The BIOS may further be configured to, during a boot of an information handling system, and in response to a request to set a password associated with the information handling system, generate a random password, securely store the random password in a memory such that the password may be retrieved during a subsequent boot of the information handling system by a user physically present at the information handling system, and set the random password as the password associated with the information handling system.

Systems and methods for automatic generation and retrieval of an information handling system password

A computer implemented method includes identifying a first question that is associated with an object at an information handling system. The first question represents an opportunity to select a first configuration setting having a first value. A second question associated with the object is identified, the second question representing an opportunity to select a second configuration setting having a second value. The method further includes determining that relevance of the second question depends on the first value. A first dependency modifier is associated with the second question based on determining the relevance. The first dependency modifier identifies the first question, the first value, and an action keyword. The action keyword identifies a first action to be associated with a presentation of the second question.

System and method for expressing platform configuration dependencies for local and remote system management

A first portion of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) configuration language string is determined, the first portion identifying an Human Interface Infrastructure (HII) configuration attribute. A second portion of the string is determined and includes a first attribute modifier. The first attribute modifier includes a first name-value pair identifying a first name and a first value. The first name and the first value are individually parsable, and the meaning of the first value is determined based on the first name. The string is stored at a HII string package of an HII database. An HII string identifier uniquely references the string.

System and method for mapping platform configuration human interface infrastructure data to system attributes for local and remote system management

A switch is disclosed for indicating that a computer card is installed in an expansion slot of a computer. A conductive strip attaches to an end wall of the slot and deforms when a computer card is installed. A conductive contact is provided in the wall of the slot to complete an electrical connection when the conductive strip is deformed. The strip connects electrically to a conductor that is passively driven high by a voltage source and pull-up resistor. The contact connects electrically to ground, so that when the computer card causes the strip to touch the contact, the voltage on conductor is driven low, providing an indication to associated circuitry that a card is present in the slot. A pair of switches may be used to provide repetitive signals indicating a card is present. If only one switch is closed, the computer may indicate to the user that a card has been installed improperly, or contaminants are present in the slot.

Slot for mechanically detecting the presence of a computer card

In a computer system comprising a CPU, main memory, and a memory controller, a system and method to dynamically remap memory while maintaining memory coherency. The main memory is divided into memory areas, one of which is a reserve memory area. Memory accesses are checked for errors and the errors are logged, as is the memory area in which the error occurred. The error log for each memory area is compared to an acceptable error frequency level. If a particular memory area exceeds the acceptable error frequency level, the memory area will be dynamically remapped to the reserve memory area while memory coherency is maintained. The dynamic remapping is performed by copying the memory from the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level, to the reserve memory are. During the copying, all writes to the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level are concurrently performed to both the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level and to the reserve memory area, thus preserving memory coherency. Also, the copying is performed in small blocks to avoid system timing problems.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Richard Chan