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Security Measures
To prevent unauthorized access of your computer, the various security measures are provided below.
You can set your "Supervisor Password" and "User Password" (The User Password can
only be set when the Supervisor Password has been set).
Without the password, access to your computer is impossible.
Starting up when the password is set
When you do not want your computer to be used without permission
If the correct password is input,
Will Start
Will Not Start
*
(Power off)
Upon entering your Supervisor
Password or User Password
and pressing
Enter
.
If entering the Setup Utility with Supervisor Password
If entering the Setup Utility with User Password
Over three incorrect attempts,
or no password is entered for about one minute,
CAUTION
It is not necessary to set the User Password.
It is necessary to set [Password on boot] in the Setup Utility to [Enable].
You can not register [Advanced] menu and some items in [Security] menu.
When [User Password Protection] has been set to [Protected], you can not regis-
ter the User Password.
F9
does not work.
You can register all items of the Setup Utility (
page 51
).
does not appear when the computer resumes from the standby mode.
Use the hibernation mode.
(If you want to use the security function when using the standby mode, add the
check mark for [Prompt for password when computer goes off standby] in [Control
Panel] - [Power Management] - [Advanced].)
*
If after three attempts the correct password is not
input, or if no password is entered for about a minute,
the computer returns to the condition just before
the attempt was made to start up the computer.
Reference
Situation
You do not want your computer to be used without permission
You do not want the data on the hard disk to be read, or data to
be written to the hard disk, in cases including theft.
You want to prevent theft or damage to data by using a disk
Function to use
Supervisor Password
User Password
Hard Disk Lock
Prevent operation by
using a disk
below
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NOTE
When [Password on boot] in the Setup Utility is set to [Disable], the password is not
necessary when the computer is started up, but the password becomes necessary
when the Setup Utility is started up. This alternative makes it possible to prevent
the contents of the Setup Utility from being changed.
