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Chapter4.FingerprintreadersettingsintheBIOS

ThissectionprovidesinformationabouttheﬁngerprintreadersettingsintheBIOS.

SettinguptheﬁngerprintreaderintheBIOS

TosetuptheﬁngerprintreaderinyourcomputerBIOS,dothefollowing:

1.Setapower-onpasswordoraharddiskdrivepassword,orboth.

2.Turnoffthecomputerandthenturniton.

3.Whenprompted,swipeyourﬁngerovertheﬁngerprintreader.

4.Typeyourpower-onpassword,yourharddiskdrivepassword,orbothasrequested.Theenrolled

ﬁngerprintisnowassociatedwithyourpower-onpassword,yourharddiskdrivepassword,orboth.

Theﬁrsttimeyoustartthecomputer,youwillneedtologontothesystembyswipingyourﬁngeroverthe

readeronceandenteringyourpasswordtoassociatethetwo.Thenexttimeyoustartthecomputer,you

canlogontothesystembyswipingyourﬁngeroverthereaderonce.

Attention:Ifyoualwaysuseyourﬁngerprinttologontothesystem,youmayforgetyourBIOSpassword.

Writedownyourpasswordandkeepitinasafeplace.Ifyouforgetyourpasswordandcannotswipeyour

ﬁnger,youcannotstartthecomputerorchangethepassword.Foroptimalperformance,enrollmore

thanoneﬁngerprint.

Ifyouforgetyourpower-onpassword,youmusttakeyourcomputertoaLenovoservicerepresentative

tohavethepassworderased.

Ifyouforgetyourharddiskdrivepassword,Lenovowillnotresetyourpasswordorrecoverdatafromthe

harddiskdrive.YoumusttakeyourcomputertoaLenovoservicerepresentativetohavetheharddiskdrive

replaced.Proofofpurchaseisrequired,andafeewillbechargedforpartsandservice.

ChangingtheBIOSsettingsfortheﬁngerprintreader

Note:TheinformationinthistopicappliestocertainThinkPad

computermodelsonly.

TheFingerprintsubmenuundertheSecuritymenuoftheBIOSSetupUtilityprogramoffersthefollowing

choices:

•Predesktopauthentication:Enablesordisablestheﬁngerprintauthenticationbeforetheoperating

systemisinstalled.Youalsocanchangetheﬁngerprintpriority.

•ReaderPriority:Choosetheexternalorinternalﬁngerprintsensorasthepriority.

•SecurityMode:Speciﬁesthesettingsofthesecuritymode.

Tochangethesettingsoftheﬁngerprintreader,dothefollowing:

1.Printtheseinstructions.

2.Saveallopenﬁlesandexitallapplications.

3.Turnoffthecomputerandthenturniton.

4.Whenthe“Tointerruptnormalstartup...”messageisdisplayedonthelowerleftsideofthewindow,

pressF1.TheBIOSSetupUtilitywindowopens.

5.Usingthecursorkeys,movetoSecurityandpressEnter.TheSecuritymenuopens.

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