Power-On Password; Privileged Access Password; Setting, Changing, And Deleting A Password; Enabling Or Disabling A Device - Lenovo ThinkCentre Hardware Maintenance Manual

v Contain at least one alphabetic character and one numeric character
v Setup Utility program and hard disk drive passwords are not case sensitive
v Not be your name or your user name
v Not be a common word or a common name
v Be significantly different from your previous password

Power-On Password

When a Power-On Password is set, the computer cannot be used until a valid
password is typed in.

Privileged Access Password

When a Privileged Access Password is set, it deters unauthorized people from
changing configuration settings. If you are responsible for maintaining the settings
of several computers, you might want to set a Privileged Access Password.
After you set a Privileged Access Password, a password prompt is displayed each
time you try to access the Setup Utility program.
If both the Power-On Password and Privileged Access Password are set, you can
type either password. However, to change any configuration settings, you must use
your Privileged Access Password.

Setting, changing, and deleting a password

To set, change, or delete a password, do the following:
Note: A password can be any combination of up to 16 (1 to 16) alphabetic and
1. Start the Setup Utility program. See Chapter 6, "Using the Setup Utility," on
2. From the Setup Utility program menu, select Security → Set Power-On
3. Read the information displayed on the right side of the screen.

Enabling or disabling a device

This section provides information on how to enable or disable user access to the
following devices:
SATA Controller
Floppy A
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numeric characters. For more information, see "Password considerations" on
page 49.
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Password or Set Privileged Access Password.
When this feature is set to Disabled, all devices connected to the
SATA controller (such as hard disk drives or the optical drive) are
disabled and will not be displayed in the system configuration.
When this feature is set to Disabled, the diskette drive cannot be
accessed.