Acer Aspire 1400 Aspire 1400 Notebook Service Guide - Page 49

1. Use the w andy keys to highlight the Set User Password/Set Supervisor Password parameter and press the e key. The Set User Password/Set Supervisor Password box appears: Set SuperVisor Password Enter New Password [ ] Confirm New Password [ ] 2. Type a password in the Enter new password field. The password may consist of up to eight alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9). Retype the password in the Confirm new password field. 3. If there is an old password then setup will prompt with the following window instead and a current password will be required to be entered at first. Set Supervisor Password Enter current password [ ] Enter New Password [ ] Confirm New Password [ ] IMPORTANT:Be very careful when typing your password because the characters do not appear on the screen. 4. User can type password in field of enter new password, and re-enter password in field of "confirm new password" for verification. If verification OK, the supervisor password is set complete after user press enter. User can see the following message. Setup Notice Changes have been saved. [Continue] If verification fail, then user will see the following message. Setup Warning Password does not match Re-enter Password [Continue] 5. Press e. After setting the password, the computer sets the User Password/Supervisor Password parameter to "Set". 6. If desired, you can opt to enable the Password on boot parameter. 7. When you are done, press u to save the changes and exit the BIOS Setup Utility. Chapter 2 43