Operating Basics

Fingerprint System Boot AuthenticationGeneral

The fingerprint authentication system can be used to replace the keyboard- based User/BIOS Password authentication system when booting up.

If you do not want to use the fingerprint authentication system for password authentication when booting up, but prefer to use the keyboard-based system instead, press the BkSP (backspace) key when the Fingerprint System Boot Authentication screen is displayed. This will switch the password input screen to the keyboard-based one.

■It is necessary to register the User Password before using the Fingerprint System Boot Authentication and its extended function, the Fingerprint Single Touch Boot Feature. Please use TOSHIBA Password Utility to register the User Password.

■The Single Touch Boot Feature cannot function if Windows’s secure logon function (requiring users to press Ctrl + Alt + Del) is set to ON. To use this feature, please disable the secure logon function. Note, however, that disabling the secure logon function might lead to security problems.

■When Fingerprint System Boot Authentication is configured, a new 24 MB hard disk partition is created to store the configuration information for administration purposes. Please do not delete this partition. If the partition is deleted, Fingerprint System Boot Authentication will not function anymore and the User/BIOS Password as well as any sub- passwords, if elected, including the Hard Disk Drive and Supervisor Passwords will have to be re-entered via the keyboard.

■If this hard disk partition is deleted by mistake, check that the hard disk drive has at least 24 MB of empty space, set the Enable System Boot Authentication checkbox from PBA Settings in the OmniPass Control Center to off, end this utility, restart the system and set this checkbox to on again. Refer to How to Enable Fingerprint System Boot Authentication Settings. This will restore the hard disk partition storing the configuration information and allow Fingerprint System Boot Authentication to function again.

■For systems that used the Fingerprint System Boot Authentication function before but had their OS reinstalled, please reregister the User Password after first releasing the User Password in the system. Failure to do so will result in Fingerprint System Boot Authentication not functioning properly.

■When swiping, please do it slowly and at a constant speed. If this does not improve the authentication rate, please adjust the speed.

■This function can only be used when booting up the OS from the built- in hard disk drive.

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