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AdministratorPassword

SettinganAdministratorPassworddetersunauthorizedpersonsfromchangingcongurationsettings.Ifyou

areresponsibleformaintainingthesettingsofseveralcomputers,youmightwanttosetanAdministrator

Password.

AfteryousetanAdministratorPassword,apasswordpromptisdisplayedeachtimeyoutrytoaccessthe

SetupUtilityprogram.

Ifboththeuserandadministratorpasswordsareset,youcantypeeitherpassword.However,tochange

anycongurationsettings,youmustuseyouradministratorpassword.

Setting,changing,anddeletingapassword

Toset,change,ordeleteapassword,dothefollowing:

Note:Apasswordcanbeanycombinationofuptosevencharacters(A-Z,a-z,and0-9)

1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram(see“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage47)

2.FromtheSetupUtilityprogrammenu,selectSecurity.

3.SelectSetPasswords.Readtheinformationdisplayedontherightsideofthescreen.

Selectingastartupdevice

Ifthecomputerdoesnotstartup(boot)fromadevicesuchastheCD-ROM,diskette,orharddiskas

expected,useoneofthefollowingprocedurestoselectastartupdevice.

Selectingatemporarystartupdevice

Usethisproceduretostartupfromanybootdevice.

Note:NotallCDs,harddisks,anddiskettesarestartable(bootable)

1.Ifyourcomputerisalreadyonwhenyoustartthisprocedure,shutdowntheoperatingsystemand

turnoffthecomputer.

2.ToopentheStartupDeviceMenu,repeatedlypresstheF12keyasyouturnonthecomputer.

Note:Selectingastartupdevicefromthislistdoesnotpermanentlychangethestartupsequence;itis

validforonebootcycleonly.

Changingthestartupdevicesequence

Tovieworpermanentlychangetheconguredstartupdevicesequence,dothefollowing:

1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram(see“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage47)

2.SelectStartup.

3.SelectStartupSequence.Seetheinformationdisplayedontherightsideofthescreen.

4.SelectthedevicesforthePrimaryStartupSequence,theAutomaticStartupSequence,andtheError

StartupSequence.

5.SelectExitfromtheSetupUtilitymenuandthenSaveSettingsorSaveandexittheSetupUtility.

Ifyouhavechangedthesesettingsandwanttoreturntothedefaultsettings,selectLoadDefaultSettings

ontheExitmenu.

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