Acer 280, 230 manual Removing a Password

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Type the Supervisor Password and press to access the BIOS Utility.

2. When the User Password is set and Power on boot is set enabled, the following prompt appears at boot- up when pressing .

Password

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Type the User Password (a symbol appears for each character you type) and press

to use the computer.

If you enter the password incorrectly, an x symbol appears. Try again and press

.

3.

When the Power on boot is set enabled, the following prompt appears at boot-up.

Enter

Password

4. When the Hard Disk Password is set, the following prompt appears at boot-up.

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Enter Password

to use the

Type the Hard Disk Password (a symbol appears for each character you type) and

computer. If you enter the password incorrectly, an x symbol appears. Try again and press

.

press

You have three chances to enter a password. If you successfully entered the password, the

starts

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Removing a Password

If you fail to enter the password correctly after three tries, the system hangs.

To change a password, follow the same steps used to set a password.

1.

Use the cursor / keys to highlight a Password parameter (Supervisor Password,

Password,

Password on boot) and press

. The following prompt appears:

User

Enter Current Password [

]

Enter NewPassword

[

]

Confirm NewPassword

[

]

2. Type Current Password, leave

“ Enter New Password” blank and press

. Leave “ Confirm New

Password” blankwandypress

, then the password is removed.

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