Toshiba A300D 用户手册

User’s Manual

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Power and Power-up Modes

If you have already registered a password, there are two ways to start the 
computer:

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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, press the ESC key or 
click Switch User button 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.

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Enter the password manually.

To enter a password manually, follow these steps:

1. Turn on the power as described in Chapter 3, 

. The fol-

lowing message appears:

2. Enter the password.

3. Press ENTER. 

The computer has the following power-up modes:

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Boot: Computer shuts down without saving data. Always save your 
work before you turn the computer off in boot mode.

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

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

You can specify the setting in Power Options.

You can use hot keys FN + F3 to enter sleep mode and FN + F4 to enter 
hibernation mode. See Chapter 5, 

 for details.