HP Dx2250 HP Compaq dx2250 Business PC, Service Reference Guide, 1st Edition - Page 47
National Keyboard Delimiter Characters, Clearing Passwords, DriveLock
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3. When the key icon appears, type the current password followed by a slash (/) or alternate delimiter character as shown: current password/ 4. Press Enter. NOTE: Refer to National Keyboard Delimiter Characters on page 41 for information about the alternate delimiter characters. The power-on password and setup password may also be changed using the Security options in Computer Setup. National Keyboard Delimiter Characters Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use to change or delete the password depend on the keyboard that came with the computer. National Keyboard Delimiter Characters Arabic Belgian / Greek = Hebrew - Russian / . Slovakian - BHCSY* Brazilian Chinese - Hungarian / Italian / Japanese - Spanish - - Swedish/Finnish / / Swiss - Czech - Korean / Taiwanese / Danish - Latin American - Thai / French ! Norwegian - Turkish . French Canadian é Polish - U.S. English / German - Portuguese - * For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia Clearing Passwords If you forget the password, you cannot access the computer. Refer to the Troubleshooting Guide on the Documentation and Diagnostics CD for instructions on clearing passwords. If the system is equipped with an embedded security device, refer to the HP ProtectTools Security Manager Guide at www.hp.com. DriveLock DriveLock is an industry-standard security feature that prevents unauthorized access to the data on ATA hard. DriveLock has been implemented as an extension to Computer Setup. It is only available when hard drives that support the ATA Security command set are detected. DriveLock is intended for HP customers for whom data security is the paramount concern. For such customers, the cost of the hard drive and the loss of the data stored on it is inconsequential when compared with the damage that could result from unauthorized access to its contents. In order to balance this level of security with the practical need to accommodate a forgotten password, the HP implementation of DriveLock employs a twopassword security scheme. One password is intended to be set and used by a system administrator while the other is typically set and used by the end-user. There is no "back-door" that can be used to unlock the drive if both passwords are lost. Therefore, DriveLock is most safely used when the data ENWW Asset Tracking and Security 41