Power Management - Lenovo ThinkPad X60 1706 Hardware Maintenance Manual

1. Turn on the computer; then, while the "To interrupt normal startup, press the
blue Access IBM button" message is displayed at the lower-left of the screen,
press the Access IBM button.
2. Enter the SVP. Select Start setup utility.
3. Select Security, using the cursor keys to move down the menu.
4. Select Password.
5. Select Power-On Password.
6. At the Enter Current Password field, enter the SVP.
7. When the Enter New Password field opens, leave it blank and press Enter
twice.
8. In the Changes have been saved window, press Enter.
9. Press F10; then, in the Setup confirmation 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 servicer, IBM does not provide any services to
reset the user HDPs or to recover data from the hard-disk drive. The hard-disk
drive can be replaced for a scheduled fee.
To remove a user HDP that has been forgotten, when the SVP and the master HDP
are known, do the following:
1. Turn on the computer; then, while the "To interrupt normal startup, press the
blue Access IBM button" message is displayed at the lower-left of the screen,
press the Access IBM button.
2. Enter the SVP. Select Start setup utility.
3. Select Security, using the cursor 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. Enter the master HDP; then leave the New Password field blank and press
Enter twice.
8. Press F10.
9. Select Yes in the Setup Configuration 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, standby, and hibernation.
Screen blank mode
Screen blank mode has three variants, as follows:
1. If you press Fn+F3, or if the time set on the "LCD off timer" in the BIOS Setup
Utility expires,
v The LCD backlight turns off.
v The hard disk drive motor stops.
v The speaker is muted.
2. If you are using the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
operating system and you press Fn+F3,
v The LCD backlight turns off.
v The hard disk drive motor stops.
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