Acer Aspire M5620 Support Question
Acer Aspire M5620 Support Question
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Question posted by antoniusrex on December 27th, 2011
Compatibility Acer M5620 Quad Q6600 With Hd 500gb Sata Iii
I have a ACER Aspire M5620 CORE 2 QUAD Q6600. I want to install a Hard Disk Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB SATA III 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache. Before buying it I would like to know whether it is compatible with my PC
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Answer #1: Posted by kcmjr on December 27th, 2011 1:36 PM
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Check your specs: http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireM5620/AspireM5620sp2.shtml
This PC uses SATA 2 and directly supports drives up to 500 GB. A SATA 3 drive will revert back to SATA 2 or SATA 1 as needed.
This drive will work fine.
A service manual is here: http://www.helpowl.com/manuals/Acer/AspireM5620/65447
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Related Acer Aspire M5620 Manual Pages
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 1
for
more information please refer to http://csd.acer.com.tw
PRINTED IN TAIWAN Aspire M5620 VeritonT661/M661/S661
Service Guide
Service guide files and updates are available on the AIPG/CSD web;
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 2
Date
Chapter
Updates
II
Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire M5620 VeritonT661/M661/S661 service guide.
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 3
... (and not Acer Incorporated, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of Acer Corporation. Disclaimer
...Other brand and product names are trademarks of Acer Incorporated. Acer Incorporated makes no representations or warranties, either expressed...of Intel Corporation. Any Acer Incorporated software described in any form or by Acer Incorporated. Acer is a registered trademark ...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 5
... for repair and service of customer machines. In such cases, please contact your regional Acer office to those given in the FRU list of a machine (e.g. These LOCALIZED FEATURES will... number change is made, it supports, please read the following general information. 1. For ACER-AUTHORIZED SERVICE PROVIDERS, your regional web or channel. Preface
Before using this information and the...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 6
... Features 30 Integrated Peripherals 34 Power Management 41 PnP/PCI Configuration 44 PC Health Status 46 Frequency/Voltage Control 47 Load Default Settings 49 Set... 53
Chapter 3 Machine Disassembly and Replacement 54
General Information 55 Disassembly Procedure 56 Aspire M5620 Disassembly Procedure 57 VeritonT661/M661/S661 Disassembly procedure 65
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting 73
Chapter ...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 10
FDD
Slot Quantity: 1 Design Criteria:
Should support 1.44MB/3 mode 3.5" Devices
SATA
Slot Type: SATA slot Slot Quantity: 6 Storage Type support:
HDD/CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/ DVD Dual/DVD
SuperMultiPlus/Blu-Ray ODD
Audio
Audio Type: HD audio codec Audio Channel: 7.1 channel
4
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 12
Data transfer rate support: USB 2.0/1.1
1394
Controller: VIA TSB43AB23PDTG4 1 on board header 1 6-pin 1394 port on rear port
BIOS
BIOS Type: Phoenix Award or AMI Kernel with Acer skin BIOS 16Mb Flash BIOS Note:
Boot ROM should be included (PXE function should be built in with default and
RPL function is optional by service BIOS) Compliant with latest ASF 2.0 spec
6
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 14
Microphone In/ Headphone Out pin connectors 1 serial port 2*5 pin connector (2nd serial port) 1 HD audio digital header 1 4 pin CPU Fan connector 1 3 pin System FAN connector with linear circuit
8 4 DDR2 memory sockets 1 PCI Express x16 slot 1 PCI Express x 1 slot 2 PCI slots 1 FDD ...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 15
1 24pin + 4pin ATX interface PS3/PS2 SPS connector 1 2*7 pin front panel IO header 1 1394 header 1 Jumper for clear CMOS Color management for on board connecters (please refer to Acer spec) Header for CIR & IR blaster function (Check ITE Solution)
Power Supply
PSP Type: 250W/300W
9
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 18
Aspire M5620 Front Panel
The computer's front panel consists of the following:
Label
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Description
Optical drive Card reader Power and HDD LED Power button Speaker or headphone Microphone jack USB ports
12
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 19
Aspire M5620 Rear Panel
Label
Description
1
Power card socket
2
Voltage selector switch
3
Fan aperture
4
PS/2 keyboard connector
5
PS/2 mouse connector
6
Serial port
7
Printer connector
Label Description
8
Monitor connector
9
USB 2.0 ports
10 RJ-45 Ethernet connector
11
Microphone jack
12 Line-out jack
13
Line-in jack
14 Extension card slots
13
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 22
...
Support to LS-120 drive Support to BIOS boot block feature
Specification Phoenix Award or AMI Kernel with Acer skin V6.0 SPI Flash 16Mb PXE 2.1 DMI V.2.0(s)or 2.1 SMBIOS 2.5 ACPI v3.0b - 1st priority: SATA HDD - 2nd priority: CD-ROM - 3rd priority: FDD - 4th priority: LAN - 5th priority: USB device YES YES
BIOS...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 23
... Bridge South Bridge APG controller Super I/O controller Audio controller
LAN controller HDD controller Keyboard controller
Specification Intel G33 Intel ICH9R Intel G33 ITE8718 Realtek HD audio codec ALC888S HD codec 7.1 (co-lay with ALC888) IT8718 ITE8718 ITE8718
Memory Combinations
Slot
Memory
Slot 1
512MB, 1GB, 2GB
Slot 2
512MB, 1GB, 2GB
Slot 3
512MB, 1GB...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 24
... digital and analog high performance chip Enhanced stereo full duplex operation High performance audio accelerator and AC'97 support Full native DOS games compatibility Virtual FM enhances audio experience through real-time FM-to error correction code (ECC) feature Memory module combinations
Yes No
You can install memory modules in any combination as...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 25
... Support bootable CD-ROM
Specification Intel ICH9R PCI bus SATA X 6 YES
Floppy disk drive Interface
Item
Specification
Floppy disk drive controller
ITE 8718
Floppy disk drive controller resident bus ISA bus
Support FDD format
360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB,
2.88MB
Parallel Port
Item Parallel port controller Parallel port controller resident bus ...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 31
...CMOS and exit setup
Exit Without Saving Abandon all configurations of PCI &
PnP ISA resources
PC Health Status
This setup page is the System auto detect Temperature,
voltage, and fan speed...the
Defaults
value of the system parameters which the system would
be in standard
Features
compatible BIOS
Advance BIOS FeaturesThis setup page includes all the items of Award special
enhanced ...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 42
...Transfer Access DMA transfer access of 33 MB/s. IDE DMA
This category allows you to [Disabled]
Channel
activate the first and/or second IDE interface. SATA 1 control port 1 and 3, SATA 2 control
port 2 and 4. ... two IDE channels. Parameter
Description
Options
IDE
The four IDE PIO fields let you
install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE
interface, set a PIO mode
Primary/Seconda...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 43
... category allows you to determine the
[Auto],
speed of block read /write. Integrated Peripherals-Onboard Device Setup
37 Parameter
Description
Options
IDE HDD Block Mode
SATA PORT Speed Settings
Block mode is also called block transfer,
[Enabled],
multiple commands, or multiple sectors
[Disabled]
read /write per sector
the drive can support...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 51
...(I/O [Auto]
Controlled By address, IRQ&DMA channels) for Plug and Play [Manual]
compatible devices automatically or manually
IRQ Resources When resource are controlled by manually, assign [Press Enter...Disabled" unless a video device
[Enabled]
specifically requires the setting enabled upon
installation. The following table describes the parameters found in this field Disabled. Parameter
...
Aspire M5620 Service Guide - Page 89
... chapter whenever ordering for parts to repair or for repair and service of Aspire M5620 VeritonT551/M661/S661. NOTE: Please note WHEN ORDERING FRU PARTS, that you should check the most
up-to-date information available on your regional Acer office to this printed Service Guide. Chapter 6
FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) List
This...
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