I've done some more work and I extracted the VEP1400-X-BIOS-3.48.0.9-19_ufw 2.3_External which i downloaded from the dell site. I managed to identify the the watchdog similar to above but I had more success to extract the IFR data It looks like there are multipe bits referring to it... see the IFR information below:
I can see its referring to a ME WDT and a PMC WDT... both disabled by default.
Fingers crossed that there is the same in the Edge 610... My CH341A is till on the way with a eta on the 14th of may... does anyone else have a unmodified edge 610 and has a ch341a readily avaiable to do a bios dump so that I can see if I can make some further progress on trying to idenify the correct bios bits to permanently turn off the watch dog without needing a bios reflash
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Form FormId: 0x330, Title: "Internal Pwr Loss Event Setup"
Subtitle Prompt: "", Help: "", Flags: 0x0
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EqIdVal QuestionId: 0x2BB, Value: 0x0
EqIdVal QuestionId: 0x2BB, Value: 0x1
Or
End
CheckBox Prompt: "SoC Pwr loss support", Help: "enable internal detection of ADR entry instead of a CPLD", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2C6, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x292, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
End
CheckBox Prompt: "PMC reset", Help: "Notify when global reset because of SMBUS Slave pwr down; CF9 w/global reset; Host partition timeout w/Promote to global reset; Sx entry timeout", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2C7, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x294, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
CheckBox Prompt: "Power Button Override", Help: "Notify when Power Button Override", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2C8, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x297, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
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CheckBox Prompt: "ME Pwr Button Override", Help: "Notify when ME initiated Power Button Override", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2C9, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x298, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
CheckBox Prompt: "ME WDT", Help: "Notify when ME watchdog timer expire", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CA, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x299, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
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CheckBox Prompt: "ME reset", Help: "Notify when ME initiated global reset", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CB, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x29A, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
CheckBox Prompt: "PMC WDT", Help: "Notify when PMC watchdog timer expire", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CC, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x29C, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
CheckBox Prompt: "ME uncorr Error", Help: "Notify when ME uncorrectable error", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CD, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x29D, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
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CheckBox Prompt: "SYS_PWROK", Help: "Notify when SYS_PWROK failure", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CE, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x29E, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
End
CheckBox Prompt: "PMC parity error", Help: "Notify when PMC parity error", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2CF, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x2A0, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
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CheckBox Prompt: "Return power", Help: "Power up ~4 sec after ADR entry", QuestionFlags: 0x10, QuestionId: 0x2D0, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x2AF, Flags: 0x0, Default: Disabled, MfgDefault: Disabled
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EndFingers crossed that there is the same in the Edge 610... My CH341A is till on the way with a eta on the 14th of may... does anyone else have a unmodified edge 610 and has a ch341a readily avaiable to do a bios dump so that I can see if I can make some further progress on trying to idenify the correct bios bits to permanently turn off the watch dog without needing a bios reflash
