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• Not be your name or your user name
• Not be a common word or a common name
• Be signicantly different from your previous password
Power-On Password
When a Power-On Password is set, the computer cannot be used until a valid password is typed from the
keyboard.
Administrator Password
When an Administrator Password is set, it deters unauthorized persons from changing conguration
settings. If you are responsible for maintaining the settings of several computers, you might want to set an
Administrator Password.
After you set an Administrator Password, a password prompt is displayed each time you try to access the
Setup Utility program.
If both the Power-On Password and the Administrator Password are set, you can type either password.
However, to change any conguration settings, you must use your Administrator Password.
Hard Disk User Password
When a Hard Disk User Password is set, it prevents unauthorized users from accessing the data on the
hard disk drive.
For computer models that do not have an internal hard disk drive and use a remote hard disk drive accessed
through the SMC - Storage Array, contact your network or storage administrator.
Setting, changing, and deleting a password
To set, change, or delete a password, do the following:
Note: A password can be any combination of up to 64 (1 to 64) alphabetic and numeric characters. For more
information, see “Password considerations” on page 43.
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See Chapter 6 “Using the Setup Utility” on page 43.
2. From the Setup Utility program, select Security ® Set Passwords.
3. Read the information displayed on the right side of the screen.
Enabling or disabling a device
This section provides information on how to enable or disable user access to the following devices:
Serial ATA When this feature is set to Disabled, all devices connected to the SATA connectors
(such as hard disk drives or the optical drive) are disabled and will not be displayed in
the system conguration.
External SATA Port When this feature is set to Disabled, the device connected to the External SATA
connector cannot be accessed.
Legacy Diskette A (some
models)
When this feature is set to Disabled, the diskette drive cannot be accessed.
To enable or disable a device, do the following:
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See “Starting the Setup Utility program” on page 43.
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