How To Reset The Passwords - Toshiba SATELLITE 2610 Series User Manual

How to reset the passwords

This section describes how to reset the supervisor and user password.
Supervisor password
1. Go to the DOS prompt, type in SVPW, and press Enter.
2. If the password has been registered, the following line will be displayed:
3. Press Y to delete the password. The following line will be displayed:
4. Enter the currently registered password. The character string you
enter is displayed as a string of asterisks. For example, if you enter a
password consisting of four characters, the display is shown as:
5. Press Enter. If character strings match, the password is registered and
the display changes to:
If they do not match, the following message appears:
Press Y to return to step 3. Press N to return to DOS.
If you enter the password incorrectly three times, the screen will display:
Password access denied!
You will not be able to access the SVPW program. In this case you must
turn the power off and back on to retry the procedure.
6. Follow the same procedures described in the earlier section, How to
set the password, to set a new supervisor password.
After you register or delete a supervisor password, if you press the reset
switch before turning off the power, your latest supervisor password
setting will be cancelled.
User's Manual
SUPERVISOR PASSWORD = Registered
Do you want to delete the supervisor password
<Y/N>?
Enter Password --->
Enter Password ---> ****
SUPERVISOR PASSWORD = Not Registered
Password verify error!
Do you want to retry <Y/N>?
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