Acer Aspire E650 User manual

Acer Aspire E650
Service Guide
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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PRINTED IN TAIWAN

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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates of Aspire E650 service guide.
Date Chapter Updates

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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.
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Pentium and Pentium D are trademarks of Intel Corporation.
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.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 System Specification 1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Main Board Specification 1
Wake-Up Event Specification 3
System LED Definition 4
Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Main Board Placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Aspire E650 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Aspire E650 Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Acer eRecovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Create Backup 10
Restore from Backup 10
Create Factory Default Image CD 10
Re-install Bundled Software without CD 11
Change Password 11
Acer Disc-to-Disc Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Restore without Recovery CD 12
Multilingual Operating System Installation 12
Hardware Specification and Configuration . . . . . . 13
Major Chips 13
Processor 13
Intel 945G 14
Intel ICH7DH 15
LPC Super I/O: ITE8712F 16
AC’97 Audio Codec ALC883 16
BIOS Hotkey List 17
System Memory 17
LAN Interface 18
IDE Interface 18
Floppy Disk Drive Interface 18
USB Interface 19
Serial Port 19
Environment Requirements 19
Power Management Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Device Standby Mode 20
Global Standby Mode 20
Suspend Mode 20

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ACPI 20
Chapter 2 Setup Utility 21
About the Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Standard Configuration 21
Entering the Setup Utility 21
Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Standard CMOS Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Advanced BIOS Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Advanced Chipset Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Integrated Peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Power Management Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PnP/PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
PC Health Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Frequency/Voltage Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Load Default Settings 47
Set Supervisor/User Password 47
Save and Exit Setup 47
Exit without Saving 47
Chapter 3 Machine Disassembly and Replacement 48
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Before You Begin 49
Aspire E650 Disassembly Procedure . . . . . . . . . . 50
Opening the Computer 50
Removing the Optical Disk Drive 52
Removing the Card Reader and the Floppy Disk Drive 52
Removing the Hard Disk Drive 53
Removing the Add-on Cards 54
Removing the Power Supply 55
Removing the System Fan 56
Removing the Memory 57
Removing the CPU 58
Removing the Main Board 59
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting 60
Chapter 5 Jumper and Connector Information 61
Introduction of Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Main Board Placement 61

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Power Cable Connectors 63
Front Panel Header 65
IDE Connector 66
SATA Connectors 66
FDD: Floppy Disk Drive Connector 66
Add-on Card Slots 66
Optional Devices 67
I/O Devices 70
Jumper Settings 71
Chapter 6 FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) List 72
Exploded Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75