Aspire T300 Service Guide
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Support 533MHz or 400MHz FSB. Graphics T On-die VGA T 1 VGA port AGP/PCI T One AGP 4X 1.5V slot T Three PCI 2.2 5V slots FDD T One FDD slot supports 1.44MB/3 mode 3.5" devices IDE T T T T T Slot Type: 40 pin ...
Support 533MHz or 400MHz FSB. Graphics T On-die VGA T 1 VGA port AGP/PCI T One AGP 4X 1.5V slot T Three PCI 2.2 5V slots FDD T One FDD slot supports 1.44MB/3 mode 3.5" devices IDE T T T T T Slot Type: 40 pin ...
Aspire T300 Service Guide
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Rear Panel The computer's rear panel (both Aspire T300 & Power ST) consists of the following: Label 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Description Power Socket Voltage Setting Switch (only available in some area) PS/2 Keyboard Port COM1/Serial Port VGA Port Speaker / Headphone Jack Line-in Jack Microphone-in Jack USB Ports Extension Card Slots Ventilation Slot PS/2 Mouse Port Printer Port Game Port LAN Port 6 Chapter 1
Rear Panel The computer's rear panel (both Aspire T300 & Power ST) consists of the following: Label 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Description Power Socket Voltage Setting Switch (only available in some area) PS/2 Keyboard Port COM1/Serial Port VGA Port Speaker / Headphone Jack Line-in Jack Microphone-in Jack USB Ports Extension Card Slots Ventilation Slot PS/2 Mouse Port Printer Port Game Port LAN Port 6 Chapter 1
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T Disable V-sync to control the VESA DPMS monitor. T Hard disk drive goes into power saving mode. T Ultra I/O and VGA chip go into Standby mode (for APM mode. ACPI T ACPI specification 1.0. T Resume method: device activated (Keyboard for DOS, keyboard & mouse...modem ring in, keyboard and mouse for ACPI mode. T CPU goes into SLEEP mode (for ATA standard interface). Chapter 1 17 Suspend Mode T Independent power management timer (2-120 minutes, time step=10 minutes) or pushing external switch button. T Hard disk drive goes into SMM. T On board device configuration ...
T Disable V-sync to control the VESA DPMS monitor. T Hard disk drive goes into power saving mode. T Ultra I/O and VGA chip go into Standby mode (for APM mode. ACPI T ACPI specification 1.0. T Resume method: device activated (Keyboard for DOS, keyboard & mouse...modem ring in, keyboard and mouse for ACPI mode. T CPU goes into SLEEP mode (for ATA standard interface). Chapter 1 17 Suspend Mode T Independent power management timer (2-120 minutes, time step=10 minutes) or pushing external switch button. T Hard disk drive goes into SMM. T On board device configuration ...
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...Slave setup, press [Enter]. Video This item specifies the type of video card in use VGA only, this function is almost useless and may be disregarded in the future. Since current...inch Drive B Allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 2. VGA/EGA CGA40 CGA80 Mono Halt On This parameter enables you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the master...memory that DOS supports. Disabled, Enabled. Extended memory is VGA/EGA. Parameter Description Options IDE Secondary Channel Master Allows you to control the system stops in case ...
...Slave setup, press [Enter]. Video This item specifies the type of video card in use VGA only, this function is almost useless and may be disregarded in the future. Since current...inch Drive B Allows you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the slave port of IDE channel 2. VGA/EGA CGA40 CGA80 Mono Halt On This parameter enables you to configure the hard disk drive connected to the master...memory that DOS supports. Disabled, Enabled. Extended memory is VGA/EGA. Parameter Description Options IDE Secondary Channel Master Allows you to control the system stops in case ...
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.../100 mode supported by the hard disk drive connected to your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to the VGA card. 4, 8, 16, 32, 64MB USB Controller This item is 16.6MB/s. Auto, mode 1, mode 2, mode 3 and mode 4 Primary Master UltraDMA Primary Salve ...Disabled, Primary, Secondary IDE Primary Master PIO IDE Primary Slave PIO IDE Secondary Master PIO IDE Secondary Slave PIO Setting these items to the onboard VGA card. Enabled Disabled AC97 Audio Enabling the on-die AC97 Auto if no add-on -chip Enabled USB. Disabled Chapter 2 31 Settings in boldface...
.../100 mode supported by the hard disk drive connected to your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to the VGA card. 4, 8, 16, 32, 64MB USB Controller This item is 16.6MB/s. Auto, mode 1, mode 2, mode 3 and mode 4 Primary Master UltraDMA Primary Salve ...Disabled, Primary, Secondary IDE Primary Master PIO IDE Primary Slave PIO IDE Secondary Master PIO IDE Secondary Slave PIO Setting these items to the onboard VGA card. Enabled Disabled AC97 Audio Enabling the on-die AC97 Auto if no add-on -chip Enabled USB. Disabled Chapter 2 31 Settings in boldface...
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...Options Selecting "Enabled" to reset Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) only if you should make any ISA bus adapter in the system requires VGA Palette snooping, the setting must be identical. Otherwise, you installed a new add-on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious... conflict that only experienced users should leave it as Manual and go into each of both VGA devices to be set to choose specific resources. PnP/PCI Configuration The following table describes the parameters found in boldface are adjustable...
...Options Selecting "Enabled" to reset Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) only if you should make any ISA bus adapter in the system requires VGA Palette snooping, the setting must be identical. Otherwise, you installed a new add-on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious... conflict that only experienced users should leave it as Manual and go into each of both VGA devices to be set to choose specific resources. PnP/PCI Configuration The following table describes the parameters found in boldface are adjustable...
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Main Unit Top Cover CD ROM Power Supply Modem Card VGA Card Memory Heatsink Floppy/HDD Cage Front Bezel Daughter Board Bracket CPU Mainboard Floppy HDD Daughter Board Chapter 3 45 Disassembly Procedure Flowchart The flowchart below gives you a graphical representation on the entire disassembly sequence and instructs you on the components that need to be removed during servicing.
Main Unit Top Cover CD ROM Power Supply Modem Card VGA Card Memory Heatsink Floppy/HDD Cage Front Bezel Daughter Board Bracket CPU Mainboard Floppy HDD Daughter Board Chapter 3 45 Disassembly Procedure Flowchart The flowchart below gives you a graphical representation on the entire disassembly sequence and instructs you on the components that need to be removed during servicing.
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.... Early PCI Initialization: • Enumerate PCI bus number • Assign memory & I/O resource • Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it into BIOS stack. Init onboard H/W monitor devices Initialize INT 09 buffer Reserved 52 Chapter 4 Reserved Program chipset...information. sum fails, use . Reserved Use walking 1's algorithm to empty PCI & DIMM slots. 2. Also set real-time clock power status, and then check for PCI & PnP use default value instead. Reserved Reserved Initial interrupts vector table. If Early_Init_Onboard_Generator is valid, ...
.... Early PCI Initialization: • Enumerate PCI bus number • Assign memory & I/O resource • Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it into BIOS stack. Init onboard H/W monitor devices Initialize INT 09 buffer Reserved 52 Chapter 4 Reserved Program chipset...information. sum fails, use . Reserved Use walking 1's algorithm to empty PCI & DIMM slots. 2. Also set real-time clock power status, and then check for PCI & PnP use default value instead. Reserved Reserved Initial interrupts vector table. If Early_Init_Onboard_Generator is valid, ...
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... boot sector information for Trend Anti-Virus code 1. Chipset final initialization 5. Program K6 write allocation 8. Build & update ESCD 3. Invoke all PCI ROMs (except VGA) Reserved 1. Program Daylight Saving 3. Power management final initialization 6. Build MP table 2. Load CMOS time into DOS timer tick 5. Assign IRQs to CMOS setup. 2. Program boot up ACPI table...
... boot sector information for Trend Anti-Virus code 1. Chipset final initialization 5. Program K6 write allocation 8. Build & update ESCD 3. Invoke all PCI ROMs (except VGA) Reserved 1. Program Daylight Saving 3. Power management final initialization 6. Build MP table 2. Load CMOS time into DOS timer tick 5. Assign IRQs to CMOS setup. 2. Program boot up ACPI table...
Power ST User Guide
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2 Connectivity • Two PS/2 interfaces for mouse and keyboard • One serial and one parallel interfaces • One VGA port • Four Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports (two on the front and two on the rear panel) • High-speed fax/data PCI modem (optional) • 10Base-T/100Base-TX network support with remote wake-up function
2 Connectivity • Two PS/2 interfaces for mouse and keyboard • One serial and one parallel interfaces • One VGA port • Four Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports (two on the front and two on the rear panel) • High-speed fax/data PCI modem (optional) • 10Base-T/100Base-TX network support with remote wake-up function
Power ST User Guide
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Description 1 Power Socket 2 Voltage Setting Switch (only available for STK & APP & PA) 3 PS/2 Keyboard Port 4 COM1/Serial Port 5 VGA Port 6 Speaker / Headphone Jack 7 Line-in Jack 8 Microphone-in Jack 9 USB Ports 10 Extension Card Slots 11 Ventilation Slot 12 PS/2 Mouse Port 13 Printer Port 14 Game Port 15 LAN Port 7 No.
Description 1 Power Socket 2 Voltage Setting Switch (only available for STK & APP & PA) 3 PS/2 Keyboard Port 4 COM1/Serial Port 5 VGA Port 6 Speaker / Headphone Jack 7 Line-in Jack 8 Microphone-in Jack 9 USB Ports 10 Extension Card Slots 11 Ventilation Slot 12 PS/2 Mouse Port 13 Printer Port 14 Game Port 15 LAN Port 7 No.
Power ST User Guide
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... following features: • Link to the Internet, and surf online. • Send and receive faxes. • Send and receive E-mails. Plug your monitor into the VGA port at the back of the PCI slot. Plug the telephone line to send and receive data through telephone line. The modem card helps to...
... following features: • Link to the Internet, and surf online. • Send and receive faxes. • Send and receive E-mails. Plug your monitor into the VGA port at the back of the PCI slot. Plug the telephone line to send and receive data through telephone line. The modem card helps to...
Power ST User Guide
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Power cable Caution: Before you only have four things to page 13 for additonal instructions and information. 14 Connecting peripherals Setting up your area. Monitor To ... port (black port) or the PS/2 mouse port computer. (green port) located on the rear panel of your Keyboard Plug the keyboard cable into the VGA port (blue port) located on the rear panel of your computer's voltage setting (refer to connect: the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the...
Power cable Caution: Before you only have four things to page 13 for additonal instructions and information. 14 Connecting peripherals Setting up your area. Monitor To ... port (black port) or the PS/2 mouse port computer. (green port) located on the rear panel of your Keyboard Plug the keyboard cable into the VGA port (blue port) located on the rear panel of your computer's voltage setting (refer to connect: the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the...