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Starting the computer by password, Power-up modes – Toshiba Computer L300 User Manual

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User’s Manual

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L300/L300D series

Starting the computer by password

If you have already registered a password, please enter the password

manually to start the computer:
To start up the computer with the user password, follow these steps:

1. Turn on the power as described in Chapter 3,

Getting Started

. The

following message appears:

Enter Current Password

2. Enter the password.
3. Press ENTER.

Power-up modes

The computer has the following power-up modes:

Boot: Computer shuts down without saving data. Always save your

work before you turn the computer off in boot mode.

Hibernation: Data in memory is saved to the hard disk.

Sleep: Data is maintained in the computer’s main memory.

Windows utilities

You can specify the setting in Power Options.

Hot keys

You can use hot keys FN + F3 to enter sleep mode and FN + F4 to enter

hibernation mode. See Chapter 5,

The Keyboard

for details.

At this point, the hot keys FN + F1 to F9 do not work. They will function

after you enter the password.

If you enter the password incorrectly three times in a row, the computer

shuts off. In this case, you must turn the computer back on to retry

password entry.

Refer also to the sections

Turning on the power

and

Turning off the power

in Chapter 3,

Getting Started

.