Disabling A Forgotten Password And Setting A New Password; Entering System Setup; System Setup Screens - Dell Precision 490 Desktop User Manual

3. Type your password into the Old Password field.
4. If you are changing an existing password, follow the instructions in
5. If you are deleting a password, press <Enter> in New Password field, leaving the field blank.
6. Press <Enter> a second time, in the Confirm New Password field, leaving the field blank.
7. Confirm that Not Set is displayed for the Admin Password setting.
If Not Set is displayed, the administrator password has been deleted. If Not Set is not displayed, then repeat
8. Exit system setup.

Disabling a Forgotten Password and Setting a New Password

To reset system and/or administrator passwords, see
System Setup
Overview
Use system setup as follows:
To change the system configuration information after you add, change, or remove any hardware in your computer
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To set or change a user-selectable option such as the user password
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To read the current amount of memory or set the type of hard drive installed
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Before you use system setup, it is recommended that you write down the system setup screen information for future reference.

Entering System Setup

1. Turn on (or restart) your computer.
2. When the blue DELL™ logo is displayed, you must watch for the F2 prompt to appear.
3. Once this F2 prompt appears, press <F2> immediately.
NOTE: The F2 prompt indicates that the keyboard has initialized. This prompt can appear very quickly, so you must watch for it to display, and then
press <F2>. If you press <F2> before you are prompted, this keystroke will be lost.
4. If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft® Windows® desktop. Then, shut down your
computer (see Turning Off Your
NOTE: If an administrator password has been set, you will be prompted to enter this password. Without an administrator password, you may view the
contents of system setup, but cannot change any settings.

System Setup Screens

The system setup screen displays current or changeable configuration information for your computer.
Clearing Forgotten
Computer) and try again.
Assigning an Administrator Password, starting from
Passwords.
step 4.
step 3 through step 8.