Deleting A Power-On Or Setup Password; National Keyboard Delimiter Characters; Clearing Passwords; Drivelock - HP Xw4600 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Technical Reference Manual

Deleting a power-on or setup password

1. Power on or restart the workstation.
2. To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
3. To delete the setup password, as soon as the workstation is powered on, press and hold the
F10 key until you enter the Computer Setup (F10) Utility. (Press
if necessary.)
NOTE:
and then press and hold the
Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process.
4. When the key icon appears, enter your current password followed by a slash (/) or alternative
delimiter character: current password/.
NOTE:
alternative delimiter characters.
5. Press Enter.

National keyboard delimiter characters

Each keyboard is designed to meet country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys that you use
for changing or deleting passwords depend on the keyboard included with your workstation.
Table 4-4 National keyboard delimiter characters
Language
Arabic
Belgian
BHCSY*
Brazilian
Chinese
Czech
Danish
French
French
Canadian
German
NOTE: * Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia

Clearing passwords

If you forget your password, you cannot access the workstation. See
on page 155

DriveLock

WARNING!
password is lost or forgotten. No method exists to recover the password or access the data.
ENWW
If you do not press the
F10
See National keyboard delimiter characters on page 45
Delimiter Language
/ Greek
= Hebrew
- Hungarian
/ Italian
/ Japanese
- Korean
- Latin American
! Norwegian
é Polish
- Portuguese
for instructions about clearing passwords.
Enabling DriveLock can render a hard drive permanently inaccessible if the master
F10 key at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer
key again to access the utility.
Delimiter
-
.
-
-
/
/
-
-
-
-
Enter to bypass the title screen,
for information about the
Language
Russian
Slovakian
Spanish
Swedish/Finnish
Swiss
Taiwanese
Thai
Turkish
U.K. English
U.S. English
Resetting the password jumper
Workstation management
Delimiter
/
-
-
/
-
/
/
.
/
/
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