Deleting a power-on or setup password
1. Power on or restart the workstation.
2. Choose from the following:
●
To delete the power-on password, when the key icon appears, enter your current password
followed by a slash (/) or alternative delimiter character:
current password/.
For information about the alternative delimiter characters, see
National keyboard delimiter
characters on page 40.
To delete the setup password, as soon as the workstation is powered on, press and hold
F10 until you enter the Computer Setup (F10) Utility.
Press Enter to bypass the title screen, if necessary.
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.
3. Press Enter.
National keyboard delimiter characters
Each keyboard meets country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys you use for changing or
deleting passwords depend on the keyboard included with your workstation.
Table 3-3 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 workstation power-on password, you cannot access the workstation until the
established password is cleared and a new password established. For instructions about clearing
passwords, see
Clearing and resetting workstation passwords on page 141.
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