Acer 505 series Laptop User Manual


 
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Password icons
Below are the password icons and their descriptions:
Parameters Description
Power-on Password icon When set to present, prompts the user to input the
correct password for the system to continue. It is
shown after the TravelMate logo.
Hard Disk Password icon When set to present, prompts the user to input the
correct password for the hard disk to operate. It
is shown after the Power-on Password Icon.
Password character icon When typing the characters of the password, the
screen displays this icon for each character
instead of the actual password character.
Wrong password icon If the wrong password is entered, this icon will
be displayed beside the wrong password.
Successful password entry icon If the password is correctly entered, this icon will
be displayed beside the correctly entered
password.
Password failure icon The system allows the user 3 chances to type the
correct password. After the password has been
incorrectly entered 3 times, this icon will be
displayed together with a short message stating
“system shut-down”. The user then has to reboot
the system to try to type the correct password
again.