How To Remove The Hard Disk Password; Power Management; Screen Blank Mode (For The Windows 7 Operating System Only); Sleep Mode - Lenovo ThinkPad S430 Maintenance Manual

7. Type the current SVP in the Enter Current Password field. then leave the Enter New Password field
blank, and press Enter twice.
8. In the Changes have been saved window, press Enter.
9. Press Fn+F10; then, in the Setup Notice window, select Yes.

How to remove the hard disk password

Attention: If User only mode is selected and the user HDP has been forgotten and cannot be made
available to the service technician, neither Lenovo nor Lenovo authorized service technicians provide any
services to reset the user HDPs or to recover data from the hard disk drive. To put the system back to
operational status, the only Lenovo and Lenovo-authorized service solution would be to replace the hard
disk drive or solid-state drive with a scheduled fee.
To remove a user HDP that has been forgotten, when the master HDP are known, do the following:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. When the ThinkPad logo comes up, immediately press F1 to enter ThinkPad Setup.
3. Select Security, using the cursor directional keys to move down the menu.
4. Select Password.
5. Select Hard-disk x password, where x is the letter of the hard disk drive. A pop-up window opens.
6. Select Master HDP.
7. Type the current master HDP in the Enter Current Password field. then leave the Enter New Password
field blank, and press Enter twice.
8. Press Fn+F10 to save changes and exit the ThinkPad Setup program.
9. Select Yes in the Setup Notice window. Both user HDP and master HDP will have been removed.

Power management

To reduce power consumption, the computer has three power management modes: screen blank, sleep,
and hibernation.

Screen blank mode (for the Windows 7 operating system only)

If the time set on the "Turn off monitor" timer in the operating system expires, the LCD backlight turns off.
To put the computer into screen blank mode, right-click the battery gauge from the Windows notification
area and select Power off display (keep current power plan).
To end screen blank mode and resume normal operation, press any key.

Sleep mode

When the computer enters sleep mode, the following events occur in addition to what occurs in screen
blank mode:
• The LCD is powered off.
• The hard disk drive is powered off.
• The microprocessor stops.
In certain circumstances, the computer goes into sleep mode automatically:
• After a period of inactivity specified in power plan settings
• When the battery indicator blinks orange, indicating that the battery power is low
To cause the computer to return from sleep mode and resume operation, do one of the following:
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