Technical information

54 Chapter 2
Security
The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a
Supervisor Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a
non-volatile storage device (EEPROM).
• Password Policy:
All the passwords will obey the following rules:
• All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen.
• The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be
assigned.
• The valid keys are listed in the table below:
Symbol Character Symbol Name
A-Z letters A to Z (not case sensitive)
0-9 numerical characters
- dash
= equal sign
[ left bracket
] right bracket
. period
, comma
; semi-colon
/slash
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility
Info. Main Advanced Boot
Item Specific Help
Supervisor Password is: Clear
User Password is: Clear
[Enter]
Set Supervisor Password
Supervisor Password
controls accesses of the
setup utility.
F1 Help
↑↓
Select Item F5/F6 Change Values F9 Setup Defaults
Esc Exit
←
→
Select Menu Enter Select
4
Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit
Set User Passord [Enter]
Set SATA Port 0 HDD Password [Enter]
Exit
Security
SATA Port 0 Disk Status Clear
Password on boot: [Disabled]