I have a new fingerprint reader that I installed under Windows 10 on a Lenovo Thinkstation P300 that was working ok.
Upon reboot the bios would prompt me for a password in order to bootstrap to Windows and then swipe my finger again to login to Windows 10 as.
My PC is setup to enter a password from the bios during bootup. After installing the fingerprint reader upon a reboot the bios would prompt me of a fingerprint in order to boot to Windows 10, I'm able to login by swiping my finger from the reader.
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However after a while the bios reboot no longer prompts to scan a finger and I need to manually enter a password from the keyboard to boot to Windows 10 login.
Apparently the bios stopped prompting me for a fingerprint scan upon a reboot.
I can remember years ago fingerprint software and drivers had an option where one only needed to scan a finger once during bios reboot and the pc would boot up into Windows (also password protected). One fingerprint scan would get you past both the bios and Windows login. However I don't see that option under Windows 10.
I'm running the latest bios which was updated prior to installing the fingerprint reader, which is working ok except now during a reboot the bios no longer prompts me.
Perhaps I need to reset the bios admin password?
***Modified title from: Reboot, bios quit promting for fingerprint scan, Windows Login ok***
When Apple announced in 2013 that its next iPhone would include a fingerprint reader, it touted the feature as a leap forward in security. Many people don’t set up a passcode on their phones, Apple SVP Phil Schiller said at the keynote event where the Touch ID sensor was unveiled, but making security easier and faster might convince more users to protect their phones. (Of course, Apple wasn’t the first to stuff a fingerprint reader into a flagship smartphone, but the iPhone’s Touch ID took the feature mainstream.)
The system itself proved quite secure—scanned fingerprints are stored, encrypted, and processed locally rather than being sent to Apple for verification—but the widespread use of fingerprint data to unlock iPhones worried some experts. One of the biggest questions that hung over the transition was legal rather than technical: How might a fingerprint-secured iPhone be treated in a court of law?
The question went unanswered for a year, until a Virginia judge ruled in 2014 that police can force users to unlock their smartphones with their fingerprints. But until this February, when a federal judge in Los Angeles signed a search warrant that required a woman to use her fingerprint to unlock her iPhone, it didn’t appear that any federal law-enforcement agency had ever used that power.