Acer Aspire 5510 Aspire 5510 Service Guide - Page 42

Parameter Set HDD Password Password on boot Description When shown as [Locked], the hard drive password currently can not be changed or disabled. To change or disable it, turn off the system and enter Setup immediately after turning it back on. Press [Enter] to input change, or disable hard drive password. Defines whether a password is required or not while the events defined in this group happened. The following suboptions are all requires the Supervisor password for changes and should be grayed out if the user password was used to enter setup. Allows the user to specify whether or not a password is required to boot. Option Enter Disabled Enabled Set Supervisor/User Password If password on boot is required, the password must be set otherwise it cannot be enabled. The formats of the password are as follows: Length No more than 8 characters Characters 0-9,A-Z (not case sensitive) While these fields are highlighted and press "Enter", a window similar to the following is shown: Set SupervisorPassword Enter New Password [ ] Confirm New Password [ ] 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 [ ] 36 Chapter 2