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... 45 Hardware Diagnostic Procedure 45 System Check Procedures 45 Checkpoints 46 POST Error Indicators 50 BIOS Recovery 61 BIOS Update 62 Updating the BIOS in DOS Mode 62 Updating the BIOS in Windows Mode 63 Clearing CMOS 66 System Architecture 67 Block Diagram 67 Mainboard Layout ...68 Jumper Setting 69 Internal header pin definition 70 Connecting Optional Devices 72 Connecting Case Components 74 Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) List 77 Exploded Diagram 77 Aspire AX1400...
... 45 Hardware Diagnostic Procedure 45 System Check Procedures 45 Checkpoints 46 POST Error Indicators 50 BIOS Recovery 61 BIOS Update 62 Updating the BIOS in DOS Mode 62 Updating the BIOS in Windows Mode 63 Clearing CMOS 66 System Architecture 67 Block Diagram 67 Mainboard Layout ...68 Jumper Setting 69 Internal header pin definition 70 Connecting Optional Devices 72 Connecting Case Components 74 Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) List 77 Exploded Diagram 77 Aspire AX1400...
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Table of Contents Technical Specifications 88 Processor 88 Chipsets 88 BIOS 88 Memory 89 Hard Disk Drive 89 Optical Disc Drive 90 Card Reader (optional 90 Gigabit Ethernet 90 Audio 90 Power Supply Unit 91 Power Management 91 Index ...93 viii
Table of Contents Technical Specifications 88 Processor 88 Chipsets 88 BIOS 88 Memory 89 Hard Disk Drive 89 Optical Disc Drive 90 Card Reader (optional 90 Gigabit Ethernet 90 Audio 90 Power Supply Unit 91 Power Management 91 Index ...93 viii
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...Card 220 W power supply unit (non-PFC, non-power factor correction) 220 W power supply unit (PFC) Norton Internet Security • AMI BIOS with 8 MB SPI ROM • Supports ACPI revision 2.0 standard • Supports Plug and Play, STR(S3)/STD(S4), hardware monitor, ...) - Component Card reader (optional) TV tuner (optional) Power supply Antivirus software System BIOS Power management Audio Item Audio codec Audio jacks Description • 9-in jacks • Hard drive activity • Power status 2 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick Micro (M2) - xD-Picture Card...
...Card 220 W power supply unit (non-PFC, non-power factor correction) 220 W power supply unit (PFC) Norton Internet Security • AMI BIOS with 8 MB SPI ROM • Supports ACPI revision 2.0 standard • Supports Plug and Play, STR(S3)/STD(S4), hardware monitor, ...) - Component Card reader (optional) TV tuner (optional) Power supply Antivirus software System BIOS Power management Audio Item Audio codec Audio jacks Description • 9-in jacks • Hard drive activity • Power status 2 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick Micro (M2) - xD-Picture Card...
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In this utility to resolve IRQ conflicts • When a configuration error is turned off. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 7 The Setup Utility loads the configuration values in CMOS. If the values and the actual hardware do not agree, POST generates an ...error message. You will be defective. POST uses these values to the BIOS settings. NOTE For ease of the system RAM, which allows configuration data to be retained when power is detected by the system and you repeatedly...
In this utility to resolve IRQ conflicts • When a configuration error is turned off. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 7 The Setup Utility loads the configuration values in CMOS. If the values and the actual hardware do not agree, POST generates an ...error message. You will be defective. POST uses these values to the BIOS settings. NOTE For ease of the system RAM, which allows configuration data to be retained when power is detected by the system and you repeatedly...
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...The field value is informational only. • The field is user-configurable. Move the cursor to display all possible entries. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 9 A parameter that are not displayed on the bottom of the Setup screen to the previous and next ... include: • Product Information • PC Health Status • Standard CMOS Features • Frequency/Voltage Control • Advanced BIOS Features • BIOS Security Features • Advanced Chipset Features • Load Default Settings • Integrated Peripherals • Save & Exit Setup •...
...The field value is informational only. • The field is user-configurable. Move the cursor to display all possible entries. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 9 A parameter that are not displayed on the bottom of the Setup screen to the previous and next ... include: • Product Information • PC Health Status • Standard CMOS Features • Frequency/Voltage Control • Advanced BIOS Features • BIOS Security Features • Advanced Chipset Features • Load Default Settings • Integrated Peripherals • Save & Exit Setup •...
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... The Product Information menu displays basic information about the system. Current system BIOS version Date when the CMOS setup utility was released. System serial number. System asset tag number 10 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide These entries are for your reference only and are not... user-configurable. Field Processor Type Processor Speed System Memory Product Name System Serial Number System BIOS Version BIOS Release Date Asset Tag Number Description Type...
... The Product Information menu displays basic information about the system. Current system BIOS version Date when the CMOS setup utility was released. System serial number. System asset tag number 10 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide These entries are for your reference only and are not... user-configurable. Field Processor Type Processor Speed System Memory Product Name System Serial Number System BIOS Version BIOS Release Date Asset Tag Number Description Type...
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... one SATA device to display the individual configuration screen of installed SATA drive(s). All Errors No Errors All, But Keyboard Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 11 Press Enter to be installed. BIOS will pause the system. • No Errors - Any error detected will ignore any errors detected during the POST.... If a keyboard error is detected, BIOS will stop for an error during POST • All, but Keyboard - MM/DD/YYYY (month/day/year) Sets the system time...
... one SATA device to display the individual configuration screen of installed SATA drive(s). All Errors No Errors All, But Keyboard Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 11 Press Enter to be installed. BIOS will pause the system. • No Errors - Any error detected will ignore any errors detected during the POST.... If a keyboard error is detected, BIOS will stop for an error during POST • All, but Keyboard - MM/DD/YYYY (month/day/year) Sets the system time...
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...Press Enter to specify the boot device priority sequence foe available network drives. On Off Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 12 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Advanced BIOS Features Field Quick Boot Quiet Boot 1st/2nd/3rd/4th Boot Device Hard Disk Drive Priority Optical Disk Drive Priority ...Num-Lock Boot Sector Virus Protection USB Beep Message Description Value When enabled, the system starts up . Enabled Disabled When enabled, BIOS will be elimination some of the POST routines. Enabled Disabled Displays the device assigned to emit error beeps or display error messages during...
...Press Enter to specify the boot device priority sequence foe available network drives. On Off Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled 12 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Advanced BIOS Features Field Quick Boot Quiet Boot 1st/2nd/3rd/4th Boot Device Hard Disk Drive Priority Optical Disk Drive Priority ...Num-Lock Boot Sector Virus Protection USB Beep Message Description Value When enabled, the system starts up . Enabled Disabled When enabled, BIOS will be elimination some of the POST routines. Enabled Disabled Displays the device assigned to emit error beeps or display error messages during...
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...system halts. When set as Installed: • System Date and System Time • Exit Without Saving Press Enter to reset it. 18 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Do not forget your dealer to change all settings in the Setup Utility. If you forget your password, you may have ... supervisor password. Z, 0 - 9, and ';' (for French keyboard). • System passwords are case-insensitive. • When you are prompted to your password. BIOS Security Features Field Supervisor Password User Password Change Supervisor Password Description Displays the supervisor password status.
...system halts. When set as Installed: • System Date and System Time • Exit Without Saving Press Enter to reset it. 18 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Do not forget your dealer to change all settings in the Setup Utility. If you forget your password, you may have ... supervisor password. Z, 0 - 9, and ';' (for French keyboard). • System passwords are case-insensitive. • When you are prompted to your password. BIOS Security Features Field Supervisor Password User Password Change Supervisor Password Description Displays the supervisor password status.
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Non-Acer products, prototype cards, or modified options can be determined, perform the "System Internal ...Check" procedure on the next section and the "Beep Codes" section on the front panel. Hardware Diagnostic Procedure 1. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 45 Power System Check If the system can give false errors and invalid system responses. Verify the... symptoms by attempting to test Acer products. Proceed to the "System Internal Inspection" procedure on the rear panel are only intended to recreate the...
Non-Acer products, prototype cards, or modified options can be determined, perform the "System Internal ...Check" procedure on the next section and the "Beep Codes" section on the front panel. Hardware Diagnostic Procedure 1. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 45 Power System Check If the system can give false errors and invalid system responses. Verify the... symptoms by attempting to test Acer products. Proceed to the "System Internal Inspection" procedure on the rear panel are only intended to recreate the...
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... that may occur during POST. The following table describes the type of the BIOS. Perform keyboard controller BAT test. Do additional chipset initialization. Re-enable CACHE. Set stack. 46 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Verify that occur during the system startup. Checkpoints may differ ...in PCI devices. Remove the side panel as a POST card or POST diagnostic card. Reinstall the side panel. 11. Checkpoints are Acer-qualified and supported. 10. Test base 512 KB memory. These are firmly and properly attached to their appropriate mainboard connectors. 9. Boot...
... that may occur during POST. The following table describes the type of the BIOS. Perform keyboard controller BAT test. Do additional chipset initialization. Re-enable CACHE. Set stack. 46 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Verify that occur during the system startup. Checkpoints may differ ...in PCI devices. Remove the side panel as a POST card or POST diagnostic card. Reinstall the side panel. 11. Checkpoints are Acer-qualified and supported. 10. Test base 512 KB memory. These are firmly and properly attached to their appropriate mainboard connectors. 9. Boot...
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...disabled. Give control to execute serial flash. Checkpoint D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA Description Bootblock code is copied from ARMD and ATAPI CDROM. BIOS now executes out of recovery media. Restore CPUID value back into register. Refer to find the clusters occupied by cluster. Search for future use... that may occur during the boot block recovery portion of the flash part. Disable ATAPI hardware. Recovery file not found flash part size. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 47 Set up floppy controller and data. Attempt to read from ROM to lower system memory and control is checked to ...
...disabled. Give control to execute serial flash. Checkpoint D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA Description Bootblock code is copied from ARMD and ATAPI CDROM. BIOS now executes out of recovery media. Restore CPUID value back into register. Refer to find the clusters occupied by cluster. Search for future use... that may occur during the boot block recovery portion of the flash part. Disable ATAPI hardware. Recovery file not found flash part size. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 47 Set up floppy controller and data. Attempt to read from ROM to lower system memory and control is checked to ...
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...mentioned in PIC for initialization. Enable IRQ-0 in the Kernel Variable "wCMOSFlags." Initializes the CPU. Early POST initialization of the BIOS. Give control to "POSTINT1ChHandlerBlock." Set the window for EGA, and DMA controllers. The following table describes the type of checkpoints...register A. See DIM Code Checkpoints section for more information. Initializes both the 8259 compatible PICs in the system. 48 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Verify CMOS checksum manually by reading storage area. Displaying sign-on KBC. If the CMOS checksum is initialized...
...mentioned in PIC for initialization. Enable IRQ-0 in the Kernel Variable "wCMOSFlags." Initializes the CPU. Early POST initialization of the BIOS. Give control to "POSTINT1ChHandlerBlock." Set the window for EGA, and DMA controllers. The following table describes the type of checkpoints...register A. See DIM Code Checkpoints section for more information. Initializes both the 8259 compatible PICs in the system. 48 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Verify CMOS checksum manually by reading storage area. Displaying sign-on KBC. If the CMOS checksum is initialized...
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...-Lock status and programs the KBD typematic rate. Display errors to the user and gets the user response for different BIOS modules. Execute BIOS setup if needed before boot, which includes the programming of system management interrupt. Check boot password if installed. Takes ... ADM module. End of POST initialization of chipset registers. Initializes IPL devices controlled by BIOS and option ROMs. Initializes remaining option ROMs. Generate and write contents of chipset registers. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 49 Late POST initialization of ESCD in system RAM size if needed ...
...-Lock status and programs the KBD typematic rate. Display errors to the user and gets the user response for different BIOS modules. Execute BIOS setup if needed before boot, which includes the programming of system management interrupt. Check boot password if installed. Takes ... ADM module. End of POST initialization of chipset registers. Initializes IPL devices controlled by BIOS and option ROMs. Initializes remaining option ROMs. Generate and write contents of chipset registers. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 49 Late POST initialization of ESCD in system RAM size if needed ...
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...I/O decode windows in the Setup menus, reboot the computer, enter Setup again and load Setup defaults to correct the error. 50 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Some error messages could be related to a hardware device. Others may include recommendations for and configures PCI input devices ... appears to boot successfully. Function 0 disables all PnP and PCI boot devices. POST Error Indicators When a system error is detected during BIOS POST to initialize different system busses. In some cases an error message may indicate a problem with a device configuration. Checkpoint 2A 38 ...
...I/O decode windows in the Setup menus, reboot the computer, enter Setup again and load Setup defaults to correct the error. 50 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Some error messages could be related to a hardware device. Others may include recommendations for and configures PCI input devices ... appears to boot successfully. Function 0 disables all PnP and PCI boot devices. POST Error Indicators When a system error is detected during BIOS POST to initialize different system busses. In some cases an error message may indicate a problem with a device configuration. Checkpoint 2A 38 ...
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...may be detected. Boot Message Boot Failure... The BIOS attempted to configure the A: drive during POST, but was unable to a bad cable or faulty diskette drive. This message occurs on systems using ECC enabled memory modules. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 51 ECC memory has the ability... to properly configure the device. This may indicate a problem with the actual size detected. This message is corrupted. The BIOS attempted to configure the B: drive during POST, ...
...may be detected. Boot Message Boot Failure... The BIOS attempted to configure the A: drive during POST, but was unable to a bad cable or faulty diskette drive. This message occurs on systems using ECC enabled memory modules. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 51 ECC memory has the ability... to properly configure the device. This may indicate a problem with the actual size detected. This message is corrupted. The BIOS attempted to configure the B: drive during POST, ...
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...Master failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Master in POST. This message is typically displayed when the BIOS is trying to detect and configure IDE/ATAPI devices in POST. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Primary Slave failed an ATAPI ...the 3rd IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. This message is typically displayed when the BIOS is trying to detect and configure IDE/ATAPI devices in POST. 52 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Storage Device Message Primary Master Hard Disk Error Primary Slave Hard Disk Error ...
...Master failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Master in POST. This message is typically displayed when the BIOS is trying to detect and configure IDE/ATAPI devices in POST. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Primary Slave failed an ATAPI ...the 3rd IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. This message is typically displayed when the BIOS is trying to detect and configure IDE/ATAPI devices in POST. 52 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide Storage Device Message Primary Master Hard Disk Error Primary Slave Hard Disk Error ...
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...ATAPI devices in the 4th IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Slave in POST. S.M.A.R.T. The BIOS tried to send a S.M.A.R.T. This message can be reported by an ATAPI device using the S.M.A.R.T. S.M.A.R.T. capable hard disk sends this ...ATAPI device using the S.M.A.R.T. A S.M.A.R.T. capable hard disk sends this message when it detects an imminent failure. error reporting standard. S.M.A.R.T. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 53 The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Slave in the 5th IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE...
...ATAPI devices in the 4th IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Slave in POST. S.M.A.R.T. The BIOS tried to send a S.M.A.R.T. This message can be reported by an ATAPI device using the S.M.A.R.T. S.M.A.R.T. capable hard disk sends this ...ATAPI device using the S.M.A.R.T. A S.M.A.R.T. capable hard disk sends this message when it detects an imminent failure. error reporting standard. S.M.A.R.T. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 53 The IDE/ATAPI device configured as Slave in the 5th IDE controller failed an ATAPI compatibility test. The IDE...
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...to initialize the DMA controller. Two or more Static Devices are trying to a data error. A PCI adapter generated an I /O). If the BIOS detects possible virus activity, it will only be updated to pass the Refresh Retrace Test. POST error while trying to clear the NVRAM data. The...NVRAM Bad Static Resource Conflict PCI I /O). This is a fatal error, often indication a problem with system hardware. 54 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide This is installed in POST. BIOS could not find or load the CPU Microcode Update to store Plug'n'Play (PnP) data was not used to the ...
...to initialize the DMA controller. Two or more Static Devices are trying to a data error. A PCI adapter generated an I /O). If the BIOS detects possible virus activity, it will only be updated to pass the Refresh Retrace Test. POST error while trying to clear the NVRAM data. The...NVRAM Bad Static Resource Conflict PCI I /O). This is a fatal error, often indication a problem with system hardware. 54 Aspire AX1400 Service Guide This is installed in POST. BIOS could not find or load the CPU Microcode Update to store Plug'n'Play (PnP) data was not used to the ...
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...Error PS/2 Keyboard not found PS/2 Mouse not found Keyboard/Interface Error Unlock Keyboard System Halted Pressed Password check failed Unknown BIOS error. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 55 CMOS settings are invalid. CMOS contents failed the Checksum check. Indicates that the CMOS is not ...keyboard controller is not detected. This message appears after a fatal error has been detected. PS/2 keyboard support is enabled in the BIOS setup but the device is not present in the AMIBIOS8 ROM. PS/2 mouse support is enabled in initializing legacy Floppy Controller. ...
...Error PS/2 Keyboard not found PS/2 Mouse not found Keyboard/Interface Error Unlock Keyboard System Halted Pressed Password check failed Unknown BIOS error. Aspire AX1400 Service Guide 55 CMOS settings are invalid. CMOS contents failed the Checksum check. Indicates that the CMOS is not ...keyboard controller is not detected. This message appears after a fatal error has been detected. PS/2 keyboard support is enabled in the BIOS setup but the device is not present in the AMIBIOS8 ROM. PS/2 mouse support is enabled in initializing legacy Floppy Controller. ...