Acer Power SE 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 2 System Board Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Board Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Floppy Disk / Hard Disk Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Video Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Audio Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
USB Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hardware Monitoring Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Modem Ring-in Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Wake-on LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Chapter 3 `BIOS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Entering Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Changing or Removing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Bypassing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Memory/Cache Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
PnP/PCI Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Load Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Abort Settings Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Exiting Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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 CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing the Upgrade CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Replacing the Hard Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Installing and Removing a PCI Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Removing a PCI Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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Year 2000 Compliance Statement
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Chapter 1
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3
Overview
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(+&&&$&
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Preinstallation
$8
❑"$
❑.-$
Selecting a Site
$$%8
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9$$
9%**
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Unpacking Components
.-0%"-$
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%%$$$
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Features
$%*-%*
*%-*-
Front Panel
$%
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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Getting Started
6
Rear Panel
$%
6 Increase Volume button
7 Decrease Volume button
8 Turbo LED
9 Power LED
10 Hard disk drive LED
11 Power button
12 3.5-inch floppy disk drive eject button
13 3.5-inch floppy disk drive
14 3.5-inch floppy disk drive LED
No. Component
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No. Component
1Fan
2 System main power switch
3 Voltage selector
4 System power socket
5 USB ports
6 PS/2 mouse port
7 PS/2 keyboard port
8 Serial port 2
9 Parallel port
10 VGA/Monitor port
11 Speaker-out/Line-out port
12 Line-in port
13 Game/MIDI portt
14 Microphone-in port
15 Add-on card brackets
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Getting Started
8
Connecting System Components
Caution: Do not turn on the system main power switch on the rear panel of
the system or plug the system in until you finish connecting all system
components.
$
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Connecting the Keyboard
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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)
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&%*
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
Connecting Multimedia Components
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