Acer TravelMate P243 SERIES, Service Manual

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2-20 System Utilities
CAUTION
:
!
If BIOS Security menu item
Password on Boot
is set to
Enabled
, the BIOS
password can only be cleared by the Crisis Disk Recovery procedure. (The
default parameter of
Password on Boot
is set to
Disabled
.)
If wrong Supervisor Password is entered three times, the message
System will halt!
is displayed on screen ( Figure 2-20 ).
Figure 2-20. Supervisor Password Error
If user is unable to obtain correct password then it must be unlocked. There are two
methods to do this.
Method 1:
0
If BIOS Security menu item ‘
Supervisor Password Is’
and ‘
User Password Is’
has been set to
Set
and ‘
Password on Boot’
is set to
Enabled
, then Crisis Recovery
disc must be used.
Method 2:
0
If BIOS menu item
Password on Boot
is set to
Disabled
.
1. Press any key to exit the menu.
2. Refer to
Removing Insyde BIOS Passwords
.
3. In DOS mode, execute ClearPwd.EXE.
Figure 2-21. Clear Supervisor Password
4. When message
Clear the SU Pws completely
is displayed, supervisor password
has been removed.
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