Acer 8210 Laptop User Manual


 
52 Chapter 2
Security Menu
The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a Supervisor
Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a non-volatile storage device
(EEPROM).
All the passwords will obey the following rules:
All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen.
The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be
assigned.
The valid keys are listed in the table below:
Symbol Character Symbol Name
A-Z letters A to Z (not case sensitive)
0-9 numerical characters
- dash
= equal sign
[ left bracket
] right bracket
. period
, comma
; semi-colon
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility
Info. Main Advanced Boot
Item Specific Help
Supervisor Password Is: Clear
User Password Is: Clear
[Enter]
Set Supervisor Password
Password on boot:
[Disabled]
Supervisor Password
controls access to the
setup utility.
F1 Help
↑↓
Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults
Esc Exit
←→
Select Menu Enter Select
4
Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit
Set User Passord
[Enter]
Clear
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Set HDD Password
[Enter]
Exit
Security
HDD Password Is:
HDD Master ID: