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‡Service Tag displays the system’s five-character service tag number, which was programmed into NVRAM by Dell during the manufacturing process. Refer to this number during technical assistance or service calls. The service tag number is also accessed by certain Dell support software, including the diagnostics software.

‡Asset Tag displays the customer-programmable asset tag number for the system if an asset tag number has been assigned. You can use the Asset Tag utility, which is included with your software support utilities, to enter an asset tag num- ber of up to ten characters into NVRAM. For information on using the utility, see “Asset Tag Utility” in Chapter 2.

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Your Dell system is shipped to you without the system password feature enabled. If system security is a concern, you should operate your system only with system pass- word protection.

You can assign a system password, as described in the next subsection, “Assigning a System Password,” whenever you use the System Setup program. After a system password is assigned, only those who know the password have full use of the system.

When System Password is set to Enabled, the computer system prompts you for the system password just after the system boots.

To change an existing system password, you must either know the password or have access to the inside of the computer (see “Deleting or Changing an Existing System Password” found later in this section).

If you assign and later forget a system password, you need your computer key to get inside the chassis, where you can change a jumper setting to disable the system password feature (see “Disabling a Forgotten Password” found later in this chapter). Note that you erase the setup password at the same time.

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Before you can assign a system password, you must enter the System Setup program and check the System Password status.

With a system password assigned, the status shown in System Password is Enabled. With the system password feature disabled by a jumper setting on the

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