Acer AcerPower SN User manual

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User’s Guide
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Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Preinstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Selecting a Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Unpacking Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Front Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Connecting System Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Connecting the Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Connecting the Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Connecting the Mouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Connecting the Printer (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Connecting Multimedia Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Connecting to the Network (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connecting the Fax/Modem (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connecting USB Devices (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Turning On Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Software Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
System Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Correcting Error Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 2 System Board Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Board Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Floppy Disk / Hard Disk Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Audio Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
USB Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Modem Ring-in Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Wake-on LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 3 BIOS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Entering Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Table of Contents
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System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Product Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Disk Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Onboard Peripherals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Onboard Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Boot Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Changing or Removing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bypassing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Memory/Cache Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
PnP/PCI Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Load Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Abort Settings Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Exiting Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 4 Upgrading the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Preinstallation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Post-installation Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Opening the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Removing the Housing Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Replacing the Housing Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Removing a DIMM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Reconfiguring the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Upgrading the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Removing the Pentium II CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing a Pentium II CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Replacing the Hard Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing and Removing Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing an AGP Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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 !
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:!#
)E2%;0F'041
1&=6"'49,/
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Year 2000 Compliance Statement
G0...;H E7
G0...I
* E E*G"D0...

0...
5G0...#22
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Laser Compliance Statement
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! 1!!3E== &*8)1=)==1!=8)=
=J%8!!8 )JG8 
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%8&)8EM=&=EE=!
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E=OE! +1=&O3 ! +=!DD=! &!
OE= 
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Lithium Battery Statement
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<7TTT
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=TU3=V
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=37
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
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Overview
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Preinstallation
$?
❑"$
❑43$
Selecting a Site
$$%?
❑%%
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%($$@
❑%@
❑%:%
Unpacking Components
43:%"3$
%%
3$%
%%$$$
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Features
$%(3%(
(%3(3
Front Panel
$%
No. Component
1 Headphone/Earphone port
2 CD-ROM tray
3 Stop/Eject button
4 Skip/Forward button
5 CD-ROM LED
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Rear Panel
$%
6 Increase Volume button
7 Decrease Volume button
8 Turbo LED
9 Power LED
10 Hard disk drive LED
11 Power button
12 3.5-inch floppy disk drive eject button
13 3.5-inch floppy disk drive
14 3.5-inch floppy disk drive LED
No. Component
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No. Component
1Fan
2 System main power switch
3 Voltage selector
4 System power socket
5 USB ports
6 PS/2 mouse port
7 PS/2 keyboard port
8 Serial 2 port
9 Parallel port
10 Serial 1 port
11 Speaker-out/Line-out port
12 Line-in port
13 Game/MIDI portt
14 VGA/Monitor port
15 Microphone-in port
16 Add-on card brackets
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Connecting System Components
Caution: Do not turn on the system main power switch on the rear panel of
the system or plug the system in until you finish connecting all system
components.
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%?
Connecting the Keyboard
!$3%3%3
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Connecting the Monitor
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
Connecting the Mouse
!$
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Chapter 1
Getting Started
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Connecting the Printer (optional)
3%%%%&%
(
&%(
B"C!D$<

Connecting Multimedia Components
E%
?
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