HP Z220 SFF, Z220 CMT, Z420, Z620, and Z820 Workstations Maintenance and Service Guide

Deleting a power-on or setup password
To delete a power-on or setup password:
1. Power on or restart the computer.
2. Choose from the following:
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To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
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To delete the setup password, as soon as the computer is powered on, press and hold F10
until you enter Computer Setup (F10) Utility. Press Enter to bypass the title screen, if
necessary.
If you do not press F10 at the appropriate time, you must restart the computer and then
press and hold F10 again to access the utility.
Use the appropriate operating system shutdown process.
3. When the key icon appears, enter the current password followed by a slash (/) or alternative
delimiter character:
current password/.
For information about the alternative delimiter characters see the following section.
4. Press Enter.
National keyboard delimiter characters
Each keyboard meets country-specific requirements. The syntax and keys you use for changing or
deleting passwords depend on the keyboard included with the computer.
Language Delimiter Language Delimiter Language Delimiter
Arabic / Greek - Russian /
Belgian = Hebrew . Slovakian -
BHCSY
*
- Hungarian - Spanish -
Brazilian / Italian - Swedish/Finnish /
Chinese / Japanese / Swiss -
Czech - Korean / Taiwanese /
Danish - Latin American - Thai /
French ! Norwegian - Turkish .
French Canadian é Polish - U.K. English /
German - Portuguese - U.S. English /
*
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and Yugoslavia
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