Acer 3600GT, 3600V User Manual

Veriton 3600GT/3600V

User’s guide

Veriton 3600GT/3600V

User’s guide

Original issue date: November 2003

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1 First things first 1

System specifications 3 Package contents 5 Accessing the user’s guide 6

2 System tour 7

Features 9

Performance 9 Multimedia 9

Connectivity 9 Front panel 10 Rear panel - VT3600G 12 Keyboard 14

Internet/E-mail/Search keys 15

Multimedia keys 16

Volume control/Mute keys 17

Lock keys 18

Cursor keys 19

Windows keys 20

Function keys 21

Palm rest 21 Optical drive 22 Hard disk 24

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Contents

3 Setting up your computer 25

Arranging a comfortable work area 27

Adjusting your chair 27

Positioning your PC 27

Positioning your monitor 30

Positioning your keyboard 30

Positioning your mouse 31 Connecting peripherals 32

Connecting your mouse 32

Connecting your keyboard 34

Connecting a monitor 36

Connecting the power cable 37 Turning on your computer 38 Turning off your computer 39 Connecting options 40

Connecting your printer 40

Connecting the modem (optional) 41

Connecting to the network 42

Connecting multimedia devices 43

Connecting USB devices 46

4 Upgrading your computer 47

Installation precautions 49

ESD precautions 49 Preinstallation instructions 49 Post-installation instructions 50

Opening your computer 51

To remove the computer cover 51

To replace the computer cover 52 Internal components 53 System boards 54

Mainboard layout 54

Audio board 57 Upgrading your computer 58

Installing additional memory 58

Replacing the hard disk 60

Installing an expansion card 63

5 System utilities 65

Acrobat Reader 68 Acer LANScope (optional) 69 Norton AntiVirus 70 NTI CD-Maker (for models with CD-RW) 72 PowerDVD (for models with DVD) 74 BIOS utility 75 Reinstalling programs 76 Recovering your system 77 Using Backup (Windows XP only) 82 Disk Defragmenter (Windows XP only) 83

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6 Frequently asked questions 85

Appendix A: Notices 91

Energy Star Guidelines Compliance 92

FCC notice 92

Notice: Canadian users 93

Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 93

Modem notices 93

Important safety instructions 94

Macrovision copyright protection notice 95

Lithium battery statement 96 Laser compliance statement 96 Declaration of Conformity for CE marking 98 Federal Communications Comission Declaration of Conformity 99

Appendix B: Taking care of your computer 101

Important tips 102 Cleaning and servicing 102 Asking for technical assistance 103

Index 105

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1 First things

first

This chapter describes the system specifications and the contents of your computer package.

System specifications

Component Specification

Processor • Intel® Pentium® 4 2.0~3.6 GHz

• Intel®Celeron® 2.0 - 2.6 GHz

System memory Four SDRAM slots support a maximum of 4 GB dual-

Chipset • Intel® 865G+ICH5(3600GT)

Graphics Intel® 865G supporting:

Audio AC ’97 Codec

LAN 10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet connectivity

IDE Two 40 pin parallel ATA IDE slots

FDD 1.44 MB 3.5 inch floppy drive

PS/2 • PS/2 keyboard port

USB Eight external USB 2.0 ports

Serial port One serial port on I/O bracket

channel DDR memory

• Intel® 865GV+ICH5(3600V)

• DVMT technology

• Dual Display

Two Serial ATA ports

• PS/2 mouse port

(Optional 2nd serial port connecting via “COM2” on page 55)

Printer port One parallel printer port

Thermal Dynamic fan speed control

Security • Chassis lock pad

• Chassis intrusion alarm

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Component Specification

Wake system Wake on LAN

Wake on modem Mouse/keyboard

HDD • Paralle ATA (5400, 7200 RPM)

• Serial ATA (7200 RPM)

Optical Drive CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD/CD-RW combo or

DVD+/-RW, or DVD-RAM(Supermulti plus) drive

Operating system • Windows® 2000

• Windows® XP Home

• Windows® XP Professional

• Novell®/SCO® Unix/Red Hat® Linux (driver support)

Dimensions • Small Form Factor

345mm(H) /101.3mm(W) /414.7mm(D)

Weight • Small Form Factor 5.3 kg/11.7lb

Thermal overrides

• System temp >90 system temp is below 90

• CPU temp >110 temp is below 110

• CPU temp >120

C - functions suspended until

C - functions suspended until CPU

C - system auto-shutdown

Package contents

Before you unpack your computer, make sure that you have enough space to set up your computer.

Carefully unpack the carton and remove the contents. If any of the following items are missing or damaged, contact your dealer immediately:

• Veriton 3600 series

• Items contained in the accessory box

• Foot stands

• USB or PS/2 keyboard

• USB or PS/2 mouse

• Power cable

• User’s guide and installation poster

• Other user documentation and third-party software

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Accessing the user’s guide

This user’s guide is also available on your computer as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

To access the user’s guide (for Windows® XP)

1 On the Windows® XP taskbar, click on the Start button then select

Help and Support Center.

2 On the Help and Support Center home page, double-click the

Veriton 3600 series Online icon.

To access the user’s guide (for Windows® 2000)

1 Double-click on the Veriton 3600 series Online icon on your

Windows® desktop.

2 System tour

This chapter discusses the features and components of your computer.

Features

Here are just a few of your computer’s many features:

Performance

•Intel® Pentium® 4/Celeron® supporting FSB(Front Side Bus) up to 800 /400MHz and HyperThreading Technology™

•Intel

• DDR-SDRAM 400/333/266, 4 DIMM slots, Expandable to 4GB dual-

• Power management function

• CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD/CD-RW combo, DVD+/-RW, or

• High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk

Multimedia

• 3-D quality audio system via onboard audio controller

• Audio-in/Line-in, Audio-out/Line-out, Headphone-out, and

® 865G+ICH5 (for 3600GT) or 865GV+ICH5(for 3600V) chipset

channel memory

DVD-RAM(Supermulti plus) drive

Microphone-in interfaces

Note: The system has two microphone-in jacks (front and rear). However, you can not use both of them at the same time. By default, your system enables the microphone-in jack in front.

Connectivity

• Two PS/2 interfaces for mouse and keyboard

• One serial port(Option 2nd serial port via “COM2” on page 55)

• One parallel port

• One VGA port

• Eight Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 ports (four on the front and four on the rear panel)

• High-speed fax/data PCI modem (optional)

• Gigabit Ethernet LAN support with remote wake-up function

Front panel

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

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7 6

Label Icon Component

1 5.25-inch drive Stop/Eject button

Label Icon Component

2 5.25-inch optical drive bay

3 Floppy drive eject button

4 3.5-inch floppy drive

5 Floppy drive light-emitting diode (LED)

7 Headphone-out port

8 USB ports

9 OBR(One Button Recovery) slot

10 Hard disk activity LED

11 LAN activity LED

12 Power LED

13 Power button

Note: The system has two microphone-in jacks (front and rear). However, you can not use both of them at the same time. By default, your system enables the microphone-in jack in front and disables the one at the back.

Microphone-in jack (front)

see note

For information on how to connect the peripherals, see “Connecting peripherals” on page 32 and “Connecting options” on page 40.

Rear panel

Your computer’s rear panel consists of the following:

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Label Icon Color Component

1 Power supply

2 Green PS/2 mouse port

3 Purple PS/2 keyboard port

4/9 Black USB ports

5 Teal or

Tur quo ise

6 Burgundy Parallel/Printer port

7 Blue Monitor port (On-die VGA)

8 White Network port

10 Pink Microphone-in jack (rear)

11 Lime Audio-out/Line-out jack

12 Light blue Audio-in/Line-in jack

13 Expansion slots

14 Chassis lock pad

15 Voltage selector switch

16 Power cord socket

Serial port

For information on how to connect the peripherals, see “Connecting peripherals” on page 32 and “Connecting options” on page 40.

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Keyboard

The keyboard that came with your computer has full-sized keys that include separate cursor keys, two Windows keys, four multimedia keys and twelve function keys.

For information on how to connect your USB keyboard, please see “Connecting peripherals” on page 32.

No. Description No. Description

1 Sleep button 2 Internet/E-mail/Search keys

3 Multimedia keys 4 Volume control/Mute keys

5 Scroll lock key 6 Num lock key

7 Cursor keys 8 Application key

9 Windows logo key 10 Caps lock key

11 Function keys

Internet/E-mail/Search keys

Icon Key Description

Web browser

Email Launches your email application.

Search Opens a search window.

Launches your current default browser.

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Multimedia keys

Allow you to conveniently play, pause, stop, step forward, or step back a song or movie using your keyboard.

Icon Key Description

Backward Press to skip backward to the previous

track or video file and start playing.

Play/Pause Press to start playing the audio track or

video file. Press again to pause.

Stop Press to stop playing the audio track or

Forward Press to skip forward to the next track or

video file.

video file and start playing.

Volume control/Mute keys

Icon Key Description

Volume up Press to increase audio volume.

Volume down

Mute Toggle sound on/off.

Press to decrease audio volume.

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Lock keys

The keyboard has three lock keys which you can toggle on and off to switch between two functions.

Lock key Description

Scroll Lock When activated, the screen moves one line up

or down when you press the up arrow or down arrow respectively. Take note that Scroll Lock may not work with some applications.

Num Lock When activated, the keypad is set to numeric

Caps Lock When activated, all alphabetic characters typed

mode; i.e., the keys function as a calculator (complete with arithmetic operators such as +, -, * and /).

appear in uppercase (same function as pressing Shift + <letter>).

Cursor keys

The cursor keys, also called the arrow keys, let you move the cursor around the screen. They serve the same function as the arrow keys on the numeric keypad when the Num Lock is toggled off.

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Windows keys

The keyboard has two keys that perform Windows-specific functions.

Key Description

Windows logo key Start button. Combinations with this key

perform special functions, such as:

• Windows + Tab: Activate the next Taskbar button

• Windows + E: Explore My Computer

• Windows + F: Find Document

• Windows + M: Minimize All

• Shift + Windows + M: Undo Minimize All

• Windows + R: Display the Run dialog box

Application key Opens the applications context menu (same

function as clicking the right button of the mouse).

Function keys

The function keys, F1 - F12, let you perform specific functions, depending on the application that uses them.

Palm rest

The detachable palm rest provides you a comfortable place to rest your hands while typing.

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Optical drive

Your computer may come with a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or a combo DVD/ CD-RW, DVD+/-RW, or DVD-RAM(Supermulti plus) drive. This drive is located on the front panel of your computer. The CD-ROM drive allows you to play different types of compact discs (CDs). The DVD-ROM drive allows you to play not only old CD-ROMs, CD-I discs, and video CDs, but digital video discs (DVDs) as well. DVD or DVD-ROM is a type of disc media that holds a minimum of 4.7-GB (gigabytes), enough for a fulllength movie. The CD-RW drive allows you to record or burn CD-RW (recordable and rewritable) discs.

CDs and DVDs, like diskettes, are also compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around. However, they are more delicate than diskettes and must be handled with extra care.

To insert a CD or DVD into your computer’s CD-ROM or DVD drive: 1 Gently push the Eject button located on the front panel.

2 When the disc tray slides open, place the CD or DVD gently on the

tray. Make sure that the label or title side of the disc is facing upward. When holding a disc, hold it by the edges to avoid leaving smudges or fingerprints.

3 Push the Eject button again to close the tray.

To take care of your CDs and DVDs:

• Keep your discs in a disk case when not in use to avoid scratches or other damage. Any kind of dirt or damage can affect the data on the disc, impair the disc lens reader on the CD or DVD drive, or stop the computer from successfully reading the disc.

• When handling discs, always hold them by the edges to avoid smudges or fingerprints.

• When cleaning discs, use a clean, dust-free cloth and wipe in a straight line from the center to the edge. Do not wipe in a circular motion.

• Clean your CD or DVD drive periodically. You may refer to the Cleaning kit for instructions. Cleaning kits can be purchased in any computer or electronics shop.

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Hard disk

Your computer is preinstalled with a high-capacity Enhanced-IDE (E-IDE) hard disk.

Refer to “Replacing the hard disk” on page 60 for instructions on how to upgrade or replace your hard disk.

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