Deleting a power-on or setup password
1. Power on or restart the workstation.
2. To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
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 then press and hold the F10 key again to access the utility.
Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process.
4. When the key icon appears, enter your current password followed by a slash (/) or alternative
delimiter character: current password/.
NOTE: See National keyboard delimiter characters on page 45 for information about the
alternative delimiter characters.
5. Press Enter.
National keyboard delimiter characters
Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use
for changing or deleting passwords depend on the keyboard included with your workstation.
Table 4-4 National keyboard delimiter characters
Language Delimiter Language Delimiter Language Delimiter
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 /
NOTE: * 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 155 for instructions about clearing passwords.
DriveLock
WARNING! Enabling DriveLock can render a hard drive permanently inaccessible if the master
password is lost or forgotten. No method exists to recover the password or access the data.
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