Acer TravelMate 4650 TravelMate 4150 / 4650 Service Guide - Page 54

Hard Disk Password Function/ Password on boot function This feature allows the user to set the password to prevent any unauthorized access to the internal hard disk. T If the original HDD come from other machine with password protected, the system just show " Enter HDD password [ ]" User is required to enter HDD password when system boot up. T If user enter the wrong password, it will pop out message "Setup Warning, Invalid Passwrod"..... T If the password is correct, system will continue to boot up into OS. T "Password on boot" T Password on boot is "Disabled", the system will NOT POP any password prompt windows during POST. T If Password on boot is set to "Enabled" , the system will POP "Enter password" prompt windows during POST. No matter the user key in "Supervisor Password" or "User Password", the system will be unlocked. Valid Password Characters Valid Password Characters: Symbol Character A-Z 0-9 Symbol Name Alphabets A through Z (Not Case Sensitive) Numerical Characters Dash Equal Sign Left Bracket Right Bracket Period Comma Semi-Colon Slash Back-slash Chapter 2 45