Deleting a power-on or setup password
To delete a power-on or setup password:
1.
Power on or restart the workstation.
2.
Choose from the following:
●
To delete the power-on password, go to step 4.
●
To delete the setup password, as soon as the workstation is powered on, press and hold
F10
until you enter the 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 workstation 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
National keyboard delimiter
characters on page 56
.
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 workstation.
Table 4-3
National keyboard delimiter characters
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
/
*
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