VIA 82C693
MAINBOARD
AWARD BIOS SETUP
4-24
4.11
SUPERVISOR PASSWORD / USER PASSWORD
The password entry in these field is different to what was mentioned in Section 2-2,
Section 4-8. The password setting in the previous pages is used to power on your PC
system, However, the “SUPERVISOR PASSWORD” and “USER PASSWORD” will
be used to check the authority when power-on. Whenever there is the password stored
in either of these fields, the correct password will be requested so that the PC system
will continue to load the operation system.
You can enter up to eight alphanumeric characters here. When you have typed in the
password and pressed the “Enter” key, you will be asked to reconfirm your password
again to complete password setup. If you press the “Enter” key twice without any
alphanumeric character entered, the PASSWORD will be disabled.
If the “User Password” and the “Supervisor Password” are both enabled and they have
different password setup, “Supervisor Password” is always has the higher priority,
Basically, an “User” is only authorized to change the content of “User Password”,
while a “Supervisor” has the authorization to dominate all settings.
