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Hi everyone, I use a power on password on my X61T, I notice that when i enter in the wrong password a little x appears and then I am to try again, so I assume there's a max number of times you can enter in the wrong password. should the number of wrong passwords be entered exceed the limit, what happens?

pb_blade wrote:Hi everyone, I use a power on password on my X61T, I notice that when i enter in the wrong password a little x appears and then I am to try again, so I assume there's a max number of times you can enter in the wrong password. should the number of wrong passwords be entered exceed the limit, what happens?

The X simply tells the user that the password is incorrect. I have tried up to 3 times due to poor typing with no problems. I am not aware of any max times, but if there is you would likely just be forced to re-toot and then your tries would be re-set.

ah ok thanks, i was concerned cause someone told me that over 3 tries and it locks down and u gotta take the pad to a service center or something, didn't make sense but thought i'd find out to be sure.