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Acer Aspire X1700 and Veriton X270 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 PRINTED IN TAIWAN
Acer Aspire X1700 and Veriton X270 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 PRINTED IN TAIWAN
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Date Chapter Updates ii Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on this service guide.
Date Chapter Updates ii Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on this service guide.
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All rights reserved. No part of Acer Incorporated. iii Copyright Copyright © 2008 by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission 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 Acer Incorporated.
All rights reserved. No part of Acer Incorporated. iii Copyright Copyright © 2008 by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission 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 Acer Incorporated.
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... Duo, Core 2 Quad, Celeron, and combinations thereof, are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their purchase, the buyer (and not Acer Incorporated, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of merchantability or fitness for any defect in the software. Disclaimer The information... in this manual is sold or licensed "as is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Acer is subject to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential ...
... Duo, Core 2 Quad, Celeron, and combinations thereof, are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their purchase, the buyer (and not Acer Incorporated, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of merchantability or fitness for any defect in the software. Disclaimer The information... in this manual is sold or licensed "as is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Acer is subject to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential ...
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WARNING CAUTION IMPORTANT Alerts you to do specific actions relevant to the accomplishment of procedures. Gives precautionary measures to avoid possible hardware or software problems. Reminds you to the current topic. v NOTE Gives additional information related to any physical risk or system damage that appear on screen. Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: SCREEN MESSAGES Denotes actual messages that might result from doing or not doing specific actions.
WARNING CAUTION IMPORTANT Alerts you to do specific actions relevant to the accomplishment of procedures. Gives precautionary measures to avoid possible hardware or software problems. Reminds you to the current topic. v NOTE Gives additional information related to any physical risk or system damage that appear on screen. Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: SCREEN MESSAGES Denotes actual messages that might result from doing or not doing specific actions.
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... responsible personnel/channel to provide you with all technical information relating to the BASIC CONFIGURATION decided for Acer's "global" product offering. You MUST use the list provided by your Acer office may have decided to order FRU parts for whatever reason, a part number change is made..., it will NOT be noted in the FRU list of customer machines. For ACER-AUTHORIZED SERVICE PROVIDERS, your regional Acer office to extend the functionality of a machine (e.g. vi If, for repair and service of this generic service guide. These ...
... responsible personnel/channel to provide you with all technical information relating to the BASIC CONFIGURATION decided for Acer's "global" product offering. You MUST use the list provided by your Acer office may have decided to order FRU parts for whatever reason, a part number change is made..., it will NOT be noted in the FRU list of customer machines. For ACER-AUTHORIZED SERVICE PROVIDERS, your regional Acer office to extend the functionality of a machine (e.g. vi If, for repair and service of this generic service guide. These ...
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...Entering CMOS setup 8 Navigating Through the Setup Utility 8 Setup Utility Menus 9 System Disassembly 23 Pre-disassembly Procedure 24 Main Unit Disassembly 25 X1700 model 25 X270 model 26 Screw List 27 Removing the Side Panel 28 Removing the Front Bezel 29 Removing the Heat Sink Fan Assembly 30... the Hard Disk Drive 37 Removing the Power Supply 40 Removing the Memory Modules 42 Removing the VGA Card (X1700 model) 43 Removing the TV Tuner Card (X1700 model) 44 Removing the Front I/O and Card Reader Boards 45 Removing the Mainboard 49 Removing the Power Switch ...
...Entering CMOS setup 8 Navigating Through the Setup Utility 8 Setup Utility Menus 9 System Disassembly 23 Pre-disassembly Procedure 24 Main Unit Disassembly 25 X1700 model 25 X270 model 26 Screw List 27 Removing the Side Panel 28 Removing the Front Bezel 29 Removing the Heat Sink Fan Assembly 30... the Hard Disk Drive 37 Removing the Power Supply 40 Removing the Memory Modules 42 Removing the VGA Card (X1700 model) 43 Removing the TV Tuner Card (X1700 model) 44 Removing the Front I/O and Card Reader Boards 45 Removing the Mainboard 49 Removing the Power Switch ...
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The exact configuration of the Aspire X1700 and Veriton X270 computer's many feature: NOTE: The features listed in this section is for your reference only. Chapter 1 System Tour Features Below is a brief ...
The exact configuration of the Aspire X1700 and Veriton X270 computer's many feature: NOTE: The features listed in this section is for your reference only. Chapter 1 System Tour Features Below is a brief ...
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... options: Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate (32/64-bit) Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32/64-bit) Applications Acer Empowering Technology (Acer eRecovery Management) Acer Arcade Live McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 Trial version Adobe Reader eSobi NTI MediaMaker System BIOS SPI ROM...
... options: Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate (32/64-bit) Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32/64-bit) Applications Acer Empowering Technology (Acer eRecovery Management) Acer Arcade Live McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 Trial version Adobe Reader eSobi NTI MediaMaker System BIOS SPI ROM...
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... Components This section includes a virtual tour of the X1700 and Veriton X270 systems' interior and exterior components. Front Panel X1700 model X270 model No. Icon Component 1 X1700 model: HDD activity indicator X270 model: Optical drive 2 X1700 model: Optical drive bay door X270 model: Optical drive...USB 2.0 ports 7 Headphone/Speaker-out/line-out jack 8 Microphone-in jack 9 IEEE 1394 port (4-pin) 10 USB 2.0 port 11 X1700 model: Power button/power indicator X270 model: LAN activity indicator 12 HDD activity indicator 13 Power button/power indicator Chapter 1 3
... Components This section includes a virtual tour of the X1700 and Veriton X270 systems' interior and exterior components. Front Panel X1700 model X270 model No. Icon Component 1 X1700 model: HDD activity indicator X270 model: Optical drive 2 X1700 model: Optical drive bay door X270 model: Optical drive...USB 2.0 ports 7 Headphone/Speaker-out/line-out jack 8 Microphone-in jack 9 IEEE 1394 port (4-pin) 10 USB 2.0 port 11 X1700 model: Power button/power indicator X270 model: LAN activity indicator 12 HDD activity indicator 13 Power button/power indicator Chapter 1 3
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Rear Panel X1700 model X270 model No. Icon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Component Expansion slot (Photo shows graphics card and TV tuner card) Line-out jack Microphone/speaker-out/line-in jack S/PDIF port USB 2.0 ports eSATA port VGA monitor port HDMI port PS2 keyboard port Voltage selector switch Power connector PS2 mouse port Serial port Gigabit LAN port (10/100/1000 Mbps) Rear speaker/surround out jack Keyhole Center speaker/subwoofer jack Kensington lock slot Audio in or side speaker jack 4 Chapter 1
Rear Panel X1700 model X270 model No. Icon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Component Expansion slot (Photo shows graphics card and TV tuner card) Line-out jack Microphone/speaker-out/line-in jack S/PDIF port USB 2.0 ports eSATA port VGA monitor port HDMI port PS2 keyboard port Voltage selector switch Power connector PS2 mouse port Serial port Gigabit LAN port (10/100/1000 Mbps) Rear speaker/surround out jack Keyhole Center speaker/subwoofer jack Kensington lock slot Audio in or side speaker jack 4 Chapter 1
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Internal Components X1700 model No. Component 1 HDD drive 2 Optical drive 3 X1700 model: Expansion cards X270 model: N/A 4 Mainboard 5 Heat sink fan assembly 6 Power supply X270 model Chapter 1 5
Internal Components X1700 model No. Component 1 HDD drive 2 Optical drive 3 X1700 model: Expansion cards X270 model: N/A 4 Mainboard 5 Heat sink fan assembly 6 Power supply X270 model Chapter 1 5
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System is installed and functioning correctly. Green On Blinking Flashing On On Off Blinking On On Off On Blinking Off HDD is not powered on . System LED Indicators This section describes the different system LED indicators. HDD failure Network link is rebuilding data. HDD is detected No network connection Transmit or receive activity GbE link network access 100 Mbps link network access 10 Mbps link network access Active network link Ongoing network data activity Off-line network 6 Chapter 1 LED indicator Power Color Green Green - Green Amber Green - HDD activity LAN ...
System is installed and functioning correctly. Green On Blinking Flashing On On Off Blinking On On Off On Blinking Off HDD is not powered on . System LED Indicators This section describes the different system LED indicators. HDD failure Network link is rebuilding data. HDD is detected No network connection Transmit or receive activity GbE link network access 100 Mbps link network access 10 Mbps link network access Active network link Ongoing network data activity Off-line network 6 Chapter 1 LED indicator Power Color Green Green - Green Amber Green - HDD activity LAN ...
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Before you run this utility. Chapter 2 System Utilities CMOS Setup Utility CMOS setup is turned off. Ask a qualified technician for assistance. This memory area is not part of the system RAM which allows configuration data to as "BIOS", "Setup", or "Setup utility" in CMOS. The screenshots used in this case, the system cannot retain configuration values in this utility under the following conditions. When changing the system configuration settings When redefining the communication ports to prevent any conflicts When modifying the power management ...
Before you run this utility. Chapter 2 System Utilities CMOS Setup Utility CMOS setup is turned off. Ask a qualified technician for assistance. This memory area is not part of the system RAM which allows configuration data to as "BIOS", "Setup", or "Setup utility" in CMOS. The screenshots used in this case, the system cannot retain configuration values in this utility under the following conditions. When changing the system configuration settings When redefining the communication ports to prevent any conflicts When modifying the power management ...
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Use the left and right arrow keys to restart the server. Select a value for the currently selected field (only if it is indicated by a (>). Esc - NOTE: Availability of a multiple page menu. End - Display the General Help panel. F6 - During POST, press Delete. If you will be displayed showing the Setup's menu bar. The Setup Main menu will need to move around the Setup utility. Left and Right arrow keys - Move the cursor to move between selections on the computer and the monitor. keys - NOTE: Grayed-out fields are making a selection. ...
Use the left and right arrow keys to restart the server. Select a value for the currently selected field (only if it is indicated by a (>). Esc - NOTE: Availability of a multiple page menu. End - Display the General Help panel. F6 - During POST, press Delete. If you will be displayed showing the Setup's menu bar. The Setup Main menu will need to move around the Setup utility. Left and Right arrow keys - Move the cursor to move between selections on the computer and the monitor. keys - NOTE: Grayed-out fields are making a selection. ...
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Chapter 2 9 Setup Utility Menus The Setup Main menu includes the following main setup categories. Product Information Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PC Health Status Frequency/Voltage Control BIOS Security Features Load Default Setting Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving In the descriptive table following each of the menu screenshots, settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
Chapter 2 9 Setup Utility Menus The Setup Main menu includes the following main setup categories. Product Information Standard CMOS Features Advanced BIOS Features Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PC Health Status Frequency/Voltage Control BIOS Security Features Load Default Setting Save & Exit Setup Exit Without Saving In the descriptive table following each of the menu screenshots, settings in boldface are the default and suggested settings.
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Product name of CPU installed on the system. Parameter Processor Type Processor Speed System Memory System Manufacturer Product Name System Serial Number System BIOS Version BIOS Release Date Asset Tag Number Description Type of the system. Speed of the system. Date when the BIOS setup utility was released Asset tag number of this system. 10 Chapter 2 Product Information The Product Information menu displays basic information about the system. Name of the manufacturer of this system. Serial number of the CPU installed on the system. Total size of the BIOS setup ...
Product name of CPU installed on the system. Parameter Processor Type Processor Speed System Memory System Manufacturer Product Name System Serial Number System BIOS Version BIOS Release Date Asset Tag Number Description Type of the system. Speed of the system. Date when the BIOS setup utility was released Asset tag number of this system. 10 Chapter 2 Product Information The Product Information menu displays basic information about the system. Name of the manufacturer of this system. Serial number of the CPU installed on the system. Total size of the BIOS setup ...
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Determines whether the system will stop for an error during the POST. All, But Keyboard No Errors All Errors Chapter 2 11 Set the system time following the weekday-month-day-year format. Standard CMOS Features Parameter System Date System Time SATA Port 1/2/3 Halt On Description Option Set the date following the hour-minute-second format. Press Enter to view detailed device information connected to the SATA connectors.
Determines whether the system will stop for an error during the POST. All, But Keyboard No Errors All Errors Chapter 2 11 Set the system time following the weekday-month-day-year format. Standard CMOS Features Parameter System Date System Time SATA Port 1/2/3 Halt On Description Option Set the date following the hour-minute-second format. Press Enter to view detailed device information connected to the SATA connectors.
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When set to no, it takes to boot the computer by shortening Enabled or skipping certain standard booting process. Optical Disk Drive Priority Press Enter to access the Optical Disk Drive Priority submenu and specify the boot device priority sequence from the available devices. Bootup Num-Lock Selects power on the screen or an alarm beep when someone attempts to write data into this area. Disabled Enabled Hard Disk Write Protect Enables or disables the hard disk write protect feature. Disabled Enabled 12 Chapter 2 Quick Boot Allows you to manually force BIOS to ...
When set to no, it takes to boot the computer by shortening Enabled or skipping certain standard booting process. Optical Disk Drive Priority Press Enter to access the Optical Disk Drive Priority submenu and specify the boot device priority sequence from the available devices. Bootup Num-Lock Selects power on the screen or an alarm beep when someone attempts to write data into this area. Disabled Enabled Hard Disk Write Protect Enables or disables the hard disk write protect feature. Disabled Enabled 12 Chapter 2 Quick Boot Allows you to manually force BIOS to ...
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When disabled, the processor forces the Execute Disable (XD) Bit feature flag to always return to change the setting. Note: A full reset is required to 0. Select a graphic controller as a primary boot device. Option Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Auto PCIE Onboard VGA Chapter 2 13 Enables or disables the Virtualization Technology (VT) availability. If enabled, a virtual machine manager (VMM) can utilize the additional hardware virtualization capabilities provided by this feature allows the OS to insert a code in the ...
When disabled, the processor forces the Execute Disable (XD) Bit feature flag to always return to change the setting. Note: A full reset is required to 0. Select a graphic controller as a primary boot device. Option Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Disabled Enabled Auto PCIE Onboard VGA Chapter 2 13 Enables or disables the Virtualization Technology (VT) availability. If enabled, a virtual machine manager (VMM) can utilize the additional hardware virtualization capabilities provided by this feature allows the OS to insert a code in the ...