Security. Acer 4600, 4100

Security

The Security screen contains parameters that help safeguard and protect your computer from unauthorized use.

PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility

Info.

Main Advanced

Security

Boot Exit

Supervisor Password Is:

User Password Is:

HDD Password Is:

HDD Master ID:

Set Supervisor Password

Set User Passord

Set HDD Password

Password on boot

Clear

Clear

Clear

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[Enter]

[Enter]

[Enter]

[Disabled]

Item Specific Help

Supervisor Password controls accesses to the setup utility.

F1 Help

↑ ↓

Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults

Esc Exit

← →

Enter

4

Sub -Menu F10 Save and Exit

The table below describes the parameters in this screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested parameter settings.

Parameter

Supervisor Password Is

User Password Is

HDD Password Is

HDD Master ID

Set Supervisor Password

Set User Password

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Press Enter to set the administrator password. When set, this password protects the BIOS Setup Utility from unauthorized access.

[Set]: System password is set

[Clear]: System password is not set

Option

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Length -- No more than 8 characters

Characters -- 0-9, A-Z (not case sensitive)

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Parameter

Set HDD Password

Password on boot

Description

When shown as [Locked], the hard drive password currently can not be changed or disabled.

To change or disable it, turn off the system and enter Setup immediately after turning it back on.

Press [Enter] to input change, or disable hard drive password.

Defines whether a password is required or not while the events defined in this group happened. The following suboptions are all requires the Supervisor password for changes and should be grayed out if the user password was used to enter setup.

Allows the user to specify whether or not a password is required to boot.

Enter

Disabled

Enabled

Option

Set Supervisor/User Password

If password on boot is required, the password must be set otherwise it cannot be enabled.

The formats of the password are as follows:

Length No more than 8 characters

Characters 0-9,A-Z (not case sensitive)

While these fields are highlighted and press “Enter”, a window similar to the following is shown:

Set SupervisorPassword

Enter New Password [ ]

Confirm New Password [ ]

If there is an old password then setup will prompt with the following window instead and a current password will be required to be entered at first:

Set Supervisor Password

Enter current password [ ]

Enter New Password [ ]

Confirm New Password [ ]

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User can now type password in field “Enter New Password”, and re-enter password in field “Confirm New

Password” for verification.

If the verification is OK:

The password setting is complete after user presses enter.

Setup Notice

Changes have been saved.

[ continue]

If the current password entered does not match the actual current password:

Setup Warning

Invalid password

Re-enter Password

[ continue]

If the new password and confirm new password strings do not match:

Setup Warning

Password do not match

Re-enter Password

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