Lenovo IdeaCentre K3 Series Hardware Maintenance Manual

Hardware Maintenance Manual

Setting, changing, and deleting a Administrator password

To set, change, or delete a password, do the following:

Note: A password can be any combination of up to 16 characters (A- Z, a-z,

and 0-9). For more information, see “Password considerations” on

page 17.

1. Start the Setup Utility program (see “Starting the Setup Utility program”

on page 16).

2. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Security .

3. Select Set Administrator Password and press Enter.

4. The password dialog box will be displayed. Type the new password,

and press Enter.

5. when prompted to conﬁrm the password, type the password again. If

you type the password correctly, the password will be installed.

To delete a previously set Administrator password, do the following :

Note: When prompted for a password, you must type your Administrator

password.

1. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Change Supervisor

Password and press Enter.

2. when you type the Administrator password. a message will display

that Enter New Password. Press Enter and a message will display

that indicates the password has been disabled. After that, the power-

on password will be disabled too if a power-on password has been

installed.

3. Press any key to contine.

Power-on Password

When a Power-On Password is set, you cannot start the Setup Utility

program until a valid password is typed from the keyboard.

You should set a power-on password after you set the administrator

password. If you didn’t setup the administrator password but only set the

power-on password, you cannot change any conﬁguration settings.

Setting, changing, and deleting a power-on password

To set, change, or delete a power-on password, do the following:

Note: A password can be any combination of up to 16 characters(A-Z, a-z,

and 0-9).

1. Start the Setup Utility program (See ”Starting the Setup Utility program”.)