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You will probably remember my long thread some time back about my concern about TPM/Pin/bios update. Well I'm in a fix and don't know how to get out of it. At the time I removed my pin, went back to using a password, and all was well...I thought.
In response to all the kernel power event 137 errors I was getting when I put the PC to sleep, the Dell technician came today and replaced my motherboard again. When he put it all back together, the PC booted fine, was running bios 1.5.1, required a password through several boots, and the kernel power error did not happen through several sleeps..
Within 30 minutes of him leaving, the PC went into a bios update ON ITS OWN and updated to bios 1.6 (which is what I had on the old motherboard.)
Upon restart after the bios updated, the PC forced me make a pin. I had NO OPTION to enter my password.. So to get into it I made a pin. Now here's what my SignIn Options page looks like. Each and every option is grayed out. I tried Brink's bat file to remove the pin but it didn't work. I have absolutely no control of any of these settings now, when I did before. How do I get control of these setting again? Don't anyone tell me that a bios update can't change the way you get into your computer and the control you have over it.
The kernel power errors are still gone and I now have the proper power options in powercfg -a so at least that problem was solved.


In response to all the kernel power event 137 errors I was getting when I put the PC to sleep, the Dell technician came today and replaced my motherboard again. When he put it all back together, the PC booted fine, was running bios 1.5.1, required a password through several boots, and the kernel power error did not happen through several sleeps..
Within 30 minutes of him leaving, the PC went into a bios update ON ITS OWN and updated to bios 1.6 (which is what I had on the old motherboard.)
Upon restart after the bios updated, the PC forced me make a pin. I had NO OPTION to enter my password.. So to get into it I made a pin. Now here's what my SignIn Options page looks like. Each and every option is grayed out. I tried Brink's bat file to remove the pin but it didn't work. I have absolutely no control of any of these settings now, when I did before. How do I get control of these setting again? Don't anyone tell me that a bios update can't change the way you get into your computer and the control you have over it.
The kernel power errors are still gone and I now have the proper power options in powercfg -a so at least that problem was solved.


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- Dell factory
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