User's Manual

7.5 The Security Menu
The Notebook's advanced system of security allows you to set a
password to prevent unauthorized access to system resources,
data, and the BIOS Setup program. This section covers each
parameter of the Security Menu. Selecting Security from the
menu bar displays the following menu:
Each field of the Security Menu is covered in detail below.
A Note about Passwords
The BIOS Setup program allows you to specify passwords in the
Security menu. The passwords control access to the BIOS and
certain Security menu options during system startup.
The passwords are not case sensitive. In other words, a password
can be entered using either upper or lower case letters; it makes
no difference.
Passwords should be composed of characters A-Z, 0-9 and ten
characters in length.
The administrator password must be set before the user password
can be set.
Set User Password… / Set Supervisor Password…
These fields allow you to set the System Password. The System
Password allows full access to the BIOS Setup menus. To set the
Supervisor password, highlight this field and press [Enter].