Acer TravelMate 6460 Service Manual page 62

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).
All the passwords obeys the following rules:
• Password Policy
• 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:
Chapter 2
Symbol Character
A-Z
0-9
-
=
[
]
.
,
;
Symbol Name
letters A to Z (not case sensitive)
numerical characters
dash
equal sign
left bracket
right bracket
period
comma
semi-colon
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