Acer TravelMate 6410 TravelMate 6410/6460 Service Guide - Page 62

Security The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a Supervisor Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a non-volatile storage device (EEPROM). All the passwords obeys the following rules: • Password Policy • All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen. • The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be assigned. • The valid keys are listed in the table below: Symbol Character A-Z 0-9 = [ ] . , ; Symbol Name letters A to Z (not case sensitive) numerical characters dash equal sign left bracket right bracket period comma semi-colon Chapter 2 56