Gigabyte G-MAX N501 user manual The Security Menu, A Note about Passwords

G-MAXTMN501 User’s Manual

6.5The Security Menu

Your notebook computer G-MAX N501'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].

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