Acer 500L - Manual (Page 78)

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Power-on Password
Enter your new Power-on Password twice. Power-on
Password may be up to 7 characters long.
Enter Password .................. [ ]
Enter Password again ............ [ ]
Set or Change Password
Operation Mode
This function lets you enable or disable the password prompt display.
When set to
Normal , the password prompt appears before system
boot. When set to Keyboard Lock , the password prompt does not
appear; however, your system will not respond to any keyboard or
mouse input until you enter the correct password.
Disk Drive Control
The disk drive control features allow you to control the floppy drive or
the hard disk drive boot function to prevent loading operating systems
or other programs from a certain drive while the other drives are
operational (under DOS mode only).
Floppy Drive
Setting Description
Normal Floppy drive functions normally
Write Protect All Sectors Disables the write function on all
sectors
Write Protect Boot Sector Disables the write function only
on the boot sector
Hard Disk Drive
Setting Description