Starting the computer by password, Power-up modes, Starting the computer by password -12 – Toshiba Portege M800 User Manual

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Power and Power-Up Modes

Starting the computer by password

To start up the computer with the user password, follow these steps:
1. Turn on the power as described in Chapter 3,

Getting Started

. The

following message appears:

2. Enter the password.
3. Press Enter.

or if available
Swipe your fingerprint on the sensor if you have already registered the

fingerprint with the Fingerprint utility and enabled Fingerprint Power On

Security. If you would not like to swipe your finger or cannot authenticate

the fingerprint for some reasons, push the BkSp key to skip the fingerprint

authentication screen. You can try to swipe the fingerprint up to five times.

If you failed fingerprint authentication more than five times, you must enter

the password manually to start the computer.

Power-up modes

The computer has the following power-up modes:

Boot Mode: Computer shuts down without saving data. Always save

your work before you turn the computer off in boot mode.

Hibernation Mode: Data in memory is saved to the hard disk.

Sleep Mode: Data is maintained in the computer's main memory.

Hot keys

You can use hot keys Fn + F3 to enter Sleep Mode and Fn + F4 to enter

Hibernation Mode. Refer to Chapter 5,

The Keyboard

for details.

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At this point, the hotkeys Fn + F1 to F9 do not work. They will function after

you enter the password.

If you enter the password incorrectly three times in a row, the computer

shuts off. In this case, you must turn the computer back on to retry

password entry.

Refer also to the sections

Turning on the power

and

Turning off the power

in Chapter 3,

Getting Started

.

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