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Deleting a power-on or setup password, National keyboard delimiter characters, Clearing passwords

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Deleting a power-on or setup password To delete a power-on or setup password: 1. Power on or restart the workstation. In Windows, click Start>Shut Down>Restart the Computer. 2. To delete the power-on password, go to step 3. To delete the setup password, as soon as the workstation is powered on, press and hold the F10 key until you enter the Computer Setup (F10) Utility. Press Enter to bypass the title screen, if necessary. NOTE: If you do not press the F10 key at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer and press and hold the F10 key again to access the utility. Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process. 3. When the key icon appears, enter your current password followed by a slash (/) or alternate delimiter character as shown: current password/. 4. Press Enter. NOTE: See the National keyboard delimiter characters on page 42 for information about the alternate delimiter characters. The power-on password and setup password can also be changed using the Security options in the Computer Setup (F10) Utility. National keyboard delimiter characters Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use for changing or deleting your password depend on the keyboard that came with your workstation. Table 3-4 National keyboard delimiter characters Language Character Language Character Language Character Arabic / Greek - Russian / Belgian = Hebrew . Slovakian - BHCSY* - Hungarian - Spanish - Brazilian / Italian - Swedish/Finnish / Chinese / Japanese / Swiss - Czech - Korean / Taiwanese / Danish - Latin American - Thai / French ! Norwegian - Turkish . French Canadian é Polish - U.K. English / German - Portuguese - U.S. English / * For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia. Clearing passwords If you forget your password, you cannot access the workstation. See Resetting the password jumper on page 163 for instructions on clearing passwords. 42 Chapter 3 System management ENWW

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Deleting a power-on or setup password
To delete a power-on or setup password:
1.
Power on or restart the workstation. In Windows, click
Start>Shut Down>Restart the Computer.
2.
To delete the power-on password, go to step 3.
To delete the setup password, as soon as the workstation is powered on, press and hold the
F10
key until you enter the Computer Setup (F10) Utility. Press
Enter
to bypass the title screen, if
necessary.
NOTE:
If you do not press the F10 key at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer
and press and hold the
F10
key again to access the utility.
Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process.
3.
When the key icon appears, enter your current password followed by a slash (/) or alternate
delimiter character as shown:
current password/
.
4.
Press
Enter
.
NOTE:
See the
National keyboard delimiter characters
on page
42
for information about the
alternate delimiter characters. The power-on password and setup password can also be changed using
the Security options in the Computer Setup (F10) Utility.
National keyboard
delimiter characters
Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use
for changing or deleting your password depend on the keyboard that came with your workstation.
Table 3-4
National keyboard delimiter characters
Language
Character
Language
Character
Language
Character
Arabic
/
Greek
-
Russian
/
Belgian
=
Hebrew
.
Slovakian
-
BHCSY*
-
Hungarian
-
Spanish
-
Brazilian
/
Italian
-
Swedish/Finnish
/
Chinese
/
Japanese
/
Swiss
-
Czech
-
Korean
/
Taiwanese
/
Danish
-
Latin American
-
Thai
/
French
!
Norwegian
-
Turkish
.
French
Canadian
é
Polish
-
U.K. English
/
German
-
Portuguese
-
U.S. English
/
* For Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia.
Clearing passwords
If you forget your password, you cannot access the workstation. See
Resetting the password jumper
on page
163
for instructions on clearing passwords.
42
Chapter 3
System management
ENWW