Chapter 5 Award BIOS Setup
Page: 5-24
Prox-2622 USER
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5-11. PASSWORD SETTING
User may select either supervisor or user password, or both of them on the
Main Menu, the differences between them is that the supervisor password
allows the user to enter and change the options of the setup menus while the
user password can only enter but do not have the right to change the options
of the setup menus.
TO SET A PASSWORD
If you want to enable this item you should choose the
〝
PASSWORD
SETTING
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option from the main menu, the following message will appear
at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password.
Enter Password:
Type the password, up to eight characters in length, and press < Enter >.
You will be asked to confirm the password. Type the password again and
press < Enter >. You may also press < Esc > to abort the selection and not
enter a password.
To change the original password, enter CMOS setup Menu again and you
will be asked to enter the original password, then select
〝
PASSWORD
SETTING
〞
and press enter. The system will ask you to enter a password,
you may enter the new password and re-type the new password for
confirmation.
User should bear in mind that when a password is set, you will be ask
to enter the password everything you enter CMOS setup Menu.
Additionally, you may also determine when the password is required
within the BIOS Features Setup Menu and its Security option. If the
Security option is set to “System”, the password will be required both at
boot and at entry to Setup. If set to “Setup”, prompting only occurs
when trying to enter Setup.
