The Intel® Management Engine BIOS Extension (MEBx) provides platform-level configuration options for you to configure the behavior of
Management Engine (ME) platform. Options include enabling and disabling individual features and setting power
configurations.
This section provides details about MEBx configuration options and constraints, if any.
All the ME Platform Configuration setting changes are not cached in MEBx. They are committed to ME non-volatile memory (NVM)
until you exit MEBx. Hence, if MEBx crashes, the changes made until that point are NOT going to be committed to ME NVM.
Access MEBx Configuration User Interface
The MEBx configuration user interface can be accessed on a computer through the following steps:
Turn on (or restart) your computer.
When the blue DELL™ logo appears, press <Ctrl><p> immediately.
If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft® Windows®
desktop. Then shut down your computer and try again.
Type the ME password. Press <Enter>.
The MEBx screen appears as shown below.
The main menu presents three function selections:
Intel ME Configuration
Intel AMT Configuration
Change Intel ME Password
The Intel ME Configuration and Intel AMT Configuration menus are discussed on the following pages. First, the password must be changed in order to proceed through these menus.
Changing the Intel ME Password
The default password is admin and is the same on all newly deployed platforms. You must change the default password before
changing any feature configuration options.
The new password must include the following elements:
Eight characters
One uppercase letter
One lowercase letter
A number
A special (nonalphanumeric) character, such as !, $, or ; excluding the :, ", and , characters.)
The underscore ( _ ) and spacebar are valid password characters but do NOT add to the password complexity.
