HP 2230s - Compaq Business Notebook Manuallines page 9

Password change on different keyboard layouts may have
potential issues
If the password is initially set with one keyboard layout – e.g. US English (409)
and then the user changes the password using a different but also supported
keyboard layout – e.g. Latin American (080A), the password change will work in
Drive Encryption but will fail in BIOS if the user uses characters which exist on
the latter (say ē) but not on the former.
Note: this issue is worked by the dev team and maybe fixed in the later release.
A simple solution to this problem is to remove the user in question from HP
ProtectTools by running the HP ProtectTools Manage Users application to
remove the user from HP ProtectTools. Then, it is possible to run the Getting
Started wizard again for the same user, ensuring that the desired keyboard
layout is selected in the OS prior to running the wizard. This way, the BIOS
stores the desired keyboard layout, and passwords that can be typed on this
keyboard layout will be properly set in the BIOS.
Another potential issue is the use of different keyboard layouts that can all
produce the same characters. For example, both the U.S. International keyboard
layout (20409) and the Latin American keyboard layout (80A) can produce the
character, é, though different keystroke sequences might be required. If a
password is initially set with the Latin American keyboard layout, then the
Latin American keyboard layout is set in the BIOS, even if the password is
subsequently changed using the U.S. International keyboard layout.
Special Key Handling
 Chinese, Slovakian, Canadian French, Czech, Korean
When a user selects one of the above keyboard layouts and enters a
password (e.g. abcdef), the same password has to be entered with a shift
key for lower case and the shift key and cap key for upper case in Preboot
BIOS and Drive Encryption.
Note:
Some standard Asian keyboards don't allow numeric characters. In these cases if a
user tries to enter a number for password, it will be rejected on the following keyboards.
· Chinese Bopomofo
· Japanese
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