Acer Aspire 3500 Support Question
Acer Aspire 3500 Support Question
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Question posted by krisbacks on June 18th, 2012
2gb Won't Boot
This laptop I gave to my stepson is old, but I want to squeeze as much as I can from it. I have 2 sticks of Patriot Ram, 1GB each and the machine will only start if I have one or the other, not both, installed. Please help if you can.
Thank you.
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Related Acer Aspire 3500 Manual Pages
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 1
Aspire 3000/3500/5000 Series
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
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 2
Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 3000/3500/5000 service guide.
Date 2005/05/02
Chapter
Chapter 1 / page 2
Updates
Integrated 3D AGP graphic issue
2
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 7
...Chapter 1 System Introduction
1
Features 1 System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3000/5000 3 System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3500 4 Board Layout (For Aspire 3000/5000 5
Top View 5 Bottom View 6 Panel 8 Front...the BIOS Utility 33 Information 34 Main 35 Security 37 Boot 41 Exit 42 BIOS Flash Utility 43
Chapter 3 Machine Disassembly and Replacement
46
General Information 47 Before You ...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 8
... Undetermined Problems 83
Chapter 5 Jumper and Connector Locations
84
Top View 84 Bottom View 86
Cahpter 6 FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) List
88
Aspire 3000/5000 Exploded Diagram 89 Aspire 3000/3500/5000 Series 101
Appendix A Model Definition and Configuration
101
Appendix B Test Compatible Components
104
Microsoft Windows XP Environment Test 105
Appendix C Online...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 10
... with dual so DIMM modules
T 512 KB flash ROM BIOS for models employing Intel® Celeron® M processor (Aspire 3500 series); 2 MB flash ROM BIOS for models employing Intel® Pentium® processor (Aspire 3500 series)
Data storage
T T
40/60/80 GB ATA/100 hard disk DVD-Dual or Combo drive
Display and graphics...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 11
... jack Headphones/speaker/line-out port Type II PC Card slot DC-in jack for AC adaptor
Pleaes aware of these two items only for Aspire 3000/5000 case usage :
Note 1: Integrated 3D AGP graphics with up to 128 MB of shared memory based on system configuration with 512MB system memory...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 13
It has different system block diagram from Aspire 3000/5000. System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3500)
Aspire 3500 is Intel® platform. Aspire 3500 system block diagram will be released later.
4
Aspire 3000/3500//5000
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 17
Touch-sensitive pointing device which functions like the left and right mouse buttons.
Buttons for launching frequently used programs.
Turns the computer on and off .
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000 Front view
# 1
2 3 4
5
6
7
8 9
Item Display screen
Microphone Keyboard Palmrest
Click buttons (Left and right)
Touchpad
Status indicators
Launch keys Power button
Description
Also called LCD...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 19
accepts CDs or DVDs depending on the optical drive type. Connects to stay cool, even after prolonged use.
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000 Enable the computer to a phone line.
Ejects the optical drive tray from the drive.
# 1 2
3
4
5
6
Rear view
Icon
Item/ Port PC Card slot eject button ...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 21
... amber when the battery is active.
Wireless LAN
Indicates the status of Bluetooth communication. NOTE: 2.
Fully charged: light shows green when in AC mode.
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 23
... external keypad.
The keys function
as a calculator (complete with some applications. When [ is indicated by small characters located on Type numbers in a normal manner.
Aspire 3000/3500//5000
To simplify the keyboard legend, cursor-control key symbols are in numeric mode.
A better solution would be to do a lot of the keycaps. Lock...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 25
...display screen backlight off ; mutes the sound.
To type:
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000
Fn-x Fn-¨z
Brightness up
Increases the sound volume. ...Brightness down
Decreases the sound volume. Turns the speakers on /off .
Hot Key
Fn-l Fn-m Fn-n Fn-o Fn-p Fn-q Fn-r Fn-s Fn-w
Icon
Function Hotkey help...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 27
.... Touchpad basics
The following items teach you move left or right a page. This button mimics your finger on the surface of Windows applications.
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000
Tapping on the touchapd is a pointing device that senses movement on its surface. These two buttons are similar to the left and right buttons...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 29
..., Hard Disk Password, INT 13h Extensions, PCI Bus Power Management interface Specification, EI Torito-Bootable CDROM Format Specification V1.0, Simple Boot Flag 1.0 Set by switch, see SW1 settings
Built-in SiS M661MX for Aspire 3500 KB910 ENE CB712 VIA VT6301S
Specification
Mobile AMD Turion 64 processor ML-28/ML-30 or higher for...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 30
...; M 350/360/370 processor at 1.3/1.4/1.5 GHz, 400 MHz FSB for Aspire 3500 series Intel® Pentium® M 715 processor at 1.5 GHz, 400 MHz FSB for Aspire 3500 series 0MB 2 Sockets 256MB 1024MB DDR-DRAM 333 MHz 2.5 V/1.25V 200-pin so-DIMM You can install memory modules in any combinations as long as they match the...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 31
... module for this product
2DD (720KB) 9 80 1 MB
300 2 MFM
2HD (1.2 MB, 3 mode) 15 80 1.6 MB
360
+5V
2HD (1.44MB) 18 80 2 MB
300
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Aspire 3000/3500//5000 You may combine DIMMs with various capacities to form other combinations.
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 33
...) Write Method
Load: Manual Release: (a) Electrical Release (Release Button)
(b) Release by ATAPI command
(c) Emergency Release
DC +5V+/- 5% (operation) DC +5V+/- 8% (start up)
TOSHIBA TS-L532A
Specification
24
Aspire 3000/3500//5000 Standard Audio CD & CD-TEXT CD-ROM (Yellow Book Mode1 & 2) - Combo Drive Interface
Item Media compatibility
Format compatibility
Loading mechanism...
Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 34
...
Read: copy-protected DVD discs, CD-ROM, CD audio, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW and CD-R/-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/+R, DVD-R/+R, DVD-RW/+RW, 4.38GB DVD-RAM, CD-DA discs, CD-ROM discs, CD-R discs, CD-RW discs Write: ... 0 DMA channel 1 IRQ10, IRQ11
Video Interface
Item Vendor & Model Name
Specification built-in SiS M760GX for Aspire 300/5000 built-in SiS M661MX for Aspire 3500
Chapter 1
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Aspire 3000 / 3500 / 5000 Service Guide - Page 35
... port Graph interface Maximum resolution LCD Maximum resolution CRT
Specification up to 128MB for Aspire 3000/5000 up to 64MB for Aspire 3500 Core / 2.5V, 1.5V, NO 4X AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) Bus ... II (No Tpye III) One type II Right side NO Yes (IRQ17)
Specification
26
Aspire 3000/3500//5000
one on the front side Enable/Disable by the performance of resolutions depends on Windows...
Aspire 3500 User's Guide - Page 33
...want to restore my computer to perform system recovery. Note: If your system is the multilingual version, the operating system and language you choose when you first turn on first booting your notebook, that is installed... Refer to complete the installation of your C: drive. (Your C: drive will be erased.) It is setup, you use this option. This recovery process helps you restore the C: drive...
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