NEC VX manual Password Protection, Establishing Passwords, Hard Disk Drive Passwords

Password Protection

Your NEC Versa supports a password for system security on several levels. Keep in mind that you must set the supervisor password before the BIOS Setup utility allows you to set a user password.

Once you set a supervisor password, you must enter it before you can enter BIOS Setup, access the system at startup, or resume from Suspend or Save-to-File, depending on your configuration selection.

Establishing Passwords

To establish password protection for entering the BIOS Setup utility or accessing the system at startup, you must set the supervisor password before setting a user password.

!To enter a password simply select Assign Supervisor Password, enter the password, re-enter the password to confirm, and press any key to continue. Repeat the procedure to set the user password.

!To initiate password protection while you step away from your system, simply press Ctrl, Alt, Backspace or Suspend/Save-to-File the system. The Caps lock and Scroll lock LEDs alternately flash indicating that you must enter a password to resume operation.

In Windows 98, the supervisor and user passwords are only valid when resuming from Save-to-File. To establish password protection for resuming from Standby or Hibernation modes you must do the following:

!Set a Windows password in Control Panel, Password Properties, Change Passwords.

!Enable the option “Prompt for password when the computer goes off standby,” in Control Panel, Power Management Properties, Advanced.

Hard Disk Drive Passwords

Your NEC Versa allows you to establish password protection for the internal hard disk drive. Hard disk drive (HDD) password protection restricts access to the drive, only if the drive is removed from your NEC Versa and installed in another system. You are not prompted to enter your hard disk drive passwords while the drive remains in your current system.

The HDD passwords are written to the system BIOS and to the hard disk drive to ensure that the password protection travels with the drive when moved from system to system.

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