protech ProX-1550, User Manual

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Chapter 5 Award BIOS Setup
Page: 5-22
Prox-1550 USER
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5-11 PASSWORD SETTING
You may choose to select to set either supervisor or user password, or both
of them. The differences is that the supervisor password can enter and
change options of the setup menus while user password can only enter setup
menu but does not have any rights to change any settings.
TO SET A PASSWORD
If you want to enable this item you should choose the
〝
PASSWORD
SETTING
〞
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, and press the < Enter > key. 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, you will
be asked to enter the original password, then select
〝
PASSWORD
SETTING
〞
and press enter. The system will asked you to enter a
password, then you may enter new password and re-type new password for
confirmation.
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User should bear in mind that when a password is set, you will be ask
to enter the password whenever you enter CMOS setup Menu. This
can prevent an unauthorized person from changing any part of your
system configuration.
You may 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.