Acer AcerPower F6 User manual

Acer
Aspire E560/T660 and AcerPower F6
Service Guide
PRINTED IN TAIWAN
Service guide files and updates are
available on the ACER/CSD web. For
more information, please refer to http:/
/csd.acer.com.tw

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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates of Desktop Aspire E560/T660 and AcerPower F6
service guide.
Date Chapter Updates
September 11, 2006 first release

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Copyright
Copyright© 2006 by Acer Incorporated. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any
language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic,
optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Acer
Incorporated.

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Disclaimer
The information in this guide is subject to change without notice.
Acer Incorporated makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with
respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties of merchantability or
fitness for any particular purpose. Any Acer Incorporated software described in this manual is
sold or licensed “as is”. Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer
(and not Acer Incorporated, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary
servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the
software.
Acer is a registered trademark of Acer Incorporated.
Other brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.

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Conventions
The following conventions are used in this manual:
SCREEN MESSAGES Denotes actual messages that appear on screen.
NOTE Gives bits and pieces of additional information
related to the current topic.
WARNING Alerts you to any damage that might result from
doing or not doing specific actions.
CAUTION Gives precautionary measures to avoid possible
hardware or software problems.
IMPORTANT Reminds you to do specific actions relevant to the
accomplishment of procedures.

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Preface
Before using this information and the product it supports, please read the following general
information.
1. This Service Guide provides you with all technical information relating to the BASIC CONFIGURATION
decided for Acer's “global” product offering. To better fit local market requirements and enhance
product competitiveness, your regional office MAY have decided to extend the functionality of a
machine (e.g. add-on card, modem, or extra memory capability). These LOCALIZED FEATURES will NOT
be covered in this generic service guide. In such cases, please contact your regional offices or the
responsible personnel/channel to provide you with further technical details.
2. Please note WHEN ORDERING FRU PARTS, you should check the most up-to-date information available
on your regional web or channel. For whatever reason, if a part number change is made, it will not be
noted in the printed Service Guide. For ACER-AUTHORIZED SERVICE PROVIDERS, your Acer office may
have a DIFFERENT part number code to those given in the FRU list of this printed Service Guide. You
MUST use the list provided by your regional Acer office to order FRU parts for repair and service of
customer machines.

Chapter 1 1
Overview
Main Board
Description
Size Max. 244 mm x 244 mm, MicroATX
Processor • Socket type: Intel socket T LGA775 pin
• Socket quantity: one
• Intel Prescott 775 / Smithfield / Cedar Mill / Presler / Conroe, FSB 533/800/
1066MHz (FMB 95W or lower)
• Intel Celeron D 775, FSB 533MHz
System Chipset • GMCH: ATI RC415s
• ICH: ATI SB600
Memory • Two DDR2 connectors
• Capacity:
• 256MB to 1GB DDR2 667/533/400 unbuffered ECC SDRAM module
support
• Max. 256MB to 4GB memory support
• Dual-channel function enabled when plugging in two same memory
size DDR2 memory modules
Onboard Graphic
Solution
• ATI RC415s integrated graphics device (IGD) solution
• DVMT technology support
• One VGA port on the rear side
PCI Express / PCI
Slots
• One PCI Express x16 slot
• One PCI Express x1 slot
• Two PCI 2.2 5V slots
FDD • One slot for FDD
• 1.44MB / 3 mode 3.5” devices support
IDE • One 40-pin PATA IDE slot, PIO mode 0/1/2/3/4 and ATA mode 33/66/100
support
• Four SATA slots, HDD/CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/
DVD Dual/DVD Super Multi Plus support
Audio • Controller: ATI SB600 compatible
• Chip: HD audio codec ALC888 HD codec 7.1 with S/PDIF out/in
• Connectors support:
• Rear six jacks that follow HD audio definition
• Front microphone in
• Front headphone out
• S/PDIF header (1*3)
• CD-in
• AUX-in
• Front panel audio header (2*5) support
• HD de-pop CKT added
• S/N ration: 90 dB at rear output jack
System Specification
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LAN • Controller: PCI-E Giga LAN
• H/W, F/W, and S/W should be able to support ASF compliant
USB • Controller: ATI SB600 compatible
• Onboard four USB back panel ports
• Connector pin: standard Intel FPIO pin definition
• Data transfer rate support: USB 2.0/1.1
• For 1394 SKU: ten ports
• Two for front daughter board
• Two for internal USB card reader
• Four for rear I/O (two co-lay with rear I/O, under RJ-45 port, for internal
USB RF & IR receiver board support)
• Two reserved header
• For non-1394 SKU: ten ports
• Four for front daughter board
• Four for rear I/O (two co-lay with rear I/O, under RJ-45 port)
• Two reserved header
Front Panel IO
Header
System LDE
Definition
• Power state LED:
• S0: blue steady
• S1/S3: blue blinking
• S4/S5: off
• HDD state LED:
• IDE active: blue blinking
• IDE idle: off
• LAN state LED:
• LAN active: blue blinking
• LAN idle: off

Chapter 1 3
Special Design Specification
Wake-Up Event Specification
All Onboard
Connectors List
• Rear I/O connectors:
• One PS/2 keyboard port, one PS/2 mouse port
• One parallel port, one serial port
• One GA (CRT) port
• One RJ-45 LAN port
• Four USB ports for non-1394 SKU; four USB ports + IEEE 1394 port for
1394 SKU
• 7.1 channel phone jack
• Onboard connectors:
• One CPU socket
• Two memory sockets
• One PCI Express x16 socket
• One PCI Express x1 socket
• Two PCI slots
• One FDD slot
• One PATA IDE connector
• Four SATA IDE connectors
• Three 2*7 pin Intel FPIO specification USB pin connectors (follow Intel
FPIO standard specification)
• One 2*5 pin Intel FPIO specification microphone-in/headphone-out pin
connector
• One serial port 2*5 pin connector (2nd serial port)
• One CD-in four-pin connector (CD-ROM audio input)
• One S/PDIF three-pin connector
• One four-pin CPU fan connector
• One four-pin system fan connector with three-pin system fan co-layout
• One intrusion alarm connector
• One 24-pin ATX interface PS3/PS2 SPS connector
• One 2*7 pin front panel IO header
• Two reserved two-pin GPIO connector
• One onboard buzzer
• Color management for onboard connector
Description
Thermal Design • At least four steps fan speed control by hardware monitor
• Intel MTM technology, default read/write enabled
• CPU overheat (120oC) power off protection
• Compliant with Intel 2005 Mainstream and Performance FMB design
• Compliant with Intel 2006 TDP
S1 S3 S4 S5
Power Button Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled
PS2 Keyboard Enabled Enabled n/a n/a
USB Keyboard Enabled Enabled n/a n/a
WOL (wake on LAN) n/a n/a n/a n/a
WOR (wake on Ring) n/a n/a n/a n/a
RTC (real time clock) n/a n/a n/a Enabled

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Block Diagram

Chapter 1 5
Main Board Placement
#Label Component #Label Component
1 CPU socket LGA775 socket for Intel
Pentium D/Pentium 4/
Celeron D CPUs
2 CPU_FAN CPU cooling fan
connector
3 DIMM1~2 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM
slots
4 IR1 Infrared header
5 CHS1 Chassis detect header 6 ATX_POWER Standard 24-pin ATX
power connector
7 FDD Floppy diskette drive
connector
8 IDE1 Primary IDE channel

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9 CLR_CMOS Clear CMOS jumper 10 PANEL1 Front panel switch/LED
header
11 SATA1~4 Serial ATA connectors 12 JP2 To be defined
13 JP1 To be defined 14 BIOS_WP BIOS protect jumper
15 USB3~5 Front panel USB headers 16 1394A1* Onboard 1394a header
17 COM2 Onboard serial port
header
18 AUDIO1 Front panel audio header
19 SPDIFO2 SPDIF out header 20 PCI1~2 32-bit add-on card slots
21 AUX_IN Auxiliary In connector 22 PCIEX1 PCI Express x1 slot
23 PCIEX16 PCI Express x16 slot 24 SYS_FAN System fan connector
25 ATX_12V Auxiliary 4-pin power
connector

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Front Panel
Aspire E560
#Description
1 Optical driver
2 Optical drive eject button
3 Power button
4 USB ports
5 Speaker/Headphone jack
6 Microphone jack
7 Indicators
8 Floppy disk drive
9 Card reader
10 IEEE 1394 port

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Aspire T660
#Description
1 Optical device
2 Floppy drive
3 Power button
4 Microphone jack
5 Speaker/Headphone jack
6 USB ports

Chapter 1 9
AcerPower F6
#Description
1 Optical driver
2 Floppy disk drive
3 Card reader
4 indicators
5 USB ports
6 Microphone jack
7 Speaker/Headphone jack
8 Power button

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Rear Panel
Aspire E560/T660
#Description
1 Optical driver
2 Floppy disk drive
3 Card reader
4 indicators
5 USB ports
6 Microphone jack
7 Speaker/Headphone jack
8 Power button

Chapter 1 11
Acer Empowering Technology
Acer’s innovative Empowering Technology makes it easy for you to access frequently used
functions and manage your new Acer notebook. It features the following handy utilities:
AcerPower F6
•Acer eSettings Management accesses system information and adjusts settings easily.
•Acer eLock Management limits access to external storage media.
•Acer eDataSecurity Management protects data with passwords and advanced encryption
algorithms.
•Acer ePerformance Management improves system performance by optimizing disk space, memory
and registry settings.
•Acer eAcoustics Management offers a useful tool to balance your computing power needs with
your desired level of quietness.
•Acer eRecovery Management backs up and recovers data flexibly, reliably and completely.
Aspire E560/T660
•Acer eDataSecurity Management protects data with passwords and advanced encryption
algorithms.
•Acer ePerformance Management improves system performance by optimizing disk space, memory
and registry settings.
•Acer eRecovery Management backs up and recovers data flexibly, reliably and completely.
For more information, press the key to launch the Empowering Technology menu, then click
on the appropriate utility and select the Help or Tutorial function.
Empowering Technology password
Before using Acer eLock Management and Acer eRecovery Management, you must initialize the
Empowering Technology password. Right-click on the Empowering Technology toolbar and
select “Password Setup” to do so. If you do not initialize the Empowering Technology password,
you will be prompted to do so when running Acer eLock Management or Acer eRecovery
Management for the first time.

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Acer eSettings Management
Acer eSettings Management allows you to inspect hardware specifications, change BIOS
passwords or other Windows settings, and to monitor the system health status. Acer eSettings
Management also:
•Provides a simple graphical user interface for navigating.
•Displays general system status and advanced monitoring for power users on Acer computer.
Acer eLock Management
Acer eLock Management is a security utility that allows you to lock your removable data, optical
and floppy drives to ensure that data can’t be stolen while your notebook is unattended.
•Removable data devices - includes USB disk drives, USB pen drives, USB flash drives, USB MP3 drives,
USB memory card readers, IEEE 1394 disk drives and any other removable disk drives that can be
mounted as a file system when plugged into the system.
•Optical drive devices - includes any kind of CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives.
•Floppy disk drives - 3.5-inch disks only.
•Interfaces - includes serial ports, parallel port, infrared (IR), and Bluetooth.
To activate Acer eLock Management, a password must be set at first. Once set, you can apply
locks to any of the devices. Lock(s) will immediately be set without any reboot necessary, and will
remain locked after rebooting, until unlocked.
Note: If you lose your password, there is no method to reset it except by reformatting your notebook

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or taking your notebook to an Acer Customer Service Center. Be sure to remember or write down your
password.
Acer eDataSecurity Management
Acer eDataSecurity Management is handy file encryption utility that protects your files from
being accessed by unauthorized persons. It is conveniently integrated with Windows explorer as
a shell extension for quick and easy data encryption/decryption and also supports on-the-fly file
encryption for MSN Messenger and Microsoft Outlook.
The Acer eDataSecurity Management setup wizard will prompt you for a supervisor password
and default encryption. This encryption will be used to encrypt files by default, or you can choose
to enter your won file-specific password when encrypting a file.
Note: The password used encrypt a file is the unique key that the system needs to decrypt it. If you lose
the password, the supervisor password is the only other key capable of decrypting the file. If you lose
both passwords, there will be no way to decrypt your encrypted file! Be sure to safeguard all
related passwords!

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