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Security – Acer 5000 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Security

The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a
Supervisor Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a
non-volatile storage device (EEPROM).

Password Policy:

All the passwords will obey the following rules:

All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen.
The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be

assigned.

The valid keys are listed in the table below:

Symbol Character

Symbol Name

A-Z

letters A to Z (not case sensitive)

0-9

numerical characters

-

dash

=

equal sign

[

left bracket

]

right bracket

.

period

,

comma

;

semi-colon

/

slash

PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility

Info.

Main Advanced

Boot

Item Specific Help

Supervisor Password is:

Clear

User Password is:

Clear

[Enter]

Set Supervisor Password

Supervisor Password

controls accesses of the

setup utility.

F1

Help

↑ ↓

Select Item

F5/F6

Change Values

F9

Setup Defaults

Esc

Exit

Select Menu

Enter

Select

4

Sub -Menu

F10

Save and Exit

Set User Passord

[Enter]

Set SATA Port 0 HDD Password

[Enter]

Exit

Security

SATA Port 0 Disk Status Clear

Password on boot:

[Disabled]