Acer AcerPower S series User's Guide

AcerPower S Series

User’s Guide

AcerPower S Series User’s Guide

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System Tour 1

Front panel 1 Rear panel 2 System Features 3

Performance 3 Multimedia 3 Connectivity 3

System peripherals 4

Mouse(PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option) 4 Keyboard(PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option) 4 Speakers 5

System upgrade 5

Open the computer 6 Set up new components 6

Setting up your computer 7

Necessary to know before Setup 7

Select location 7

Open package 7 Connecting the peripherals 8 Starting your computer 9 Shutting down your computer 9

Troubleshooting 11

Contents

Taking Care of your computer 15

Important tips 15 Cleaning and servicing 15

To clean your computer and keyboard 15

To clean your pointing device 16

To clean your optical mouse 16

To clean your monitor 16 When to contact a service technician 16

Asking for technical assistance 16 Energy Star Guidelines Compliance 17 FCC notice 17 Notice: Canadian users 18 Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 18 Modem notices 18

Notice for USA 18

TBR 21 19

Notice for Australia 19 Important safety instructions 19 Macrovision® copyright protection notice 21 Lithium battery statement 21 Laser compliance statement 22 Declaration of Conformity for CE marking 23 Federal Communications Comission Declaration of Conformity 24

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System Tour

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

Front panel

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No. Description No. Description

1 Optical Drive 2 Floppy Drive

3 USB Ports 4 Microphone Jack

5 Speaker or Headphone Jack 6 Power Button

Rear panel

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Icon Description

Power cord socket

Voltage Selector Switch

PS/2 Mouse Port

PS/2 Keyboard Port

Serial Port

Monitor Connector

Parallel Port

Microphone-in jack

Audio-out Jack

Audio-in Jack

Joystick/MIDI port(Manufacturing option)

USB Ports

LAN Port

System Features

Your computer features:

Performance

• Intel® Pentium® 4/Celeron® CPU

• DDR System Memory, 2 DIMM Slots, expandable to 2GB

• Power management function

• 3.5 inch floppy drive

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

• High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE drive

• Support USB 2.0 high performance peripherals

Multimedia

• 3D quality audio system via onboard audio controller

• Audio-in/Line-in, Audio-out/Line-out, Headphone out and external Microphone in jacks

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, you system enables your microphone-in jack in front and disables the one at the back.

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Connectivity

• Two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse

• One serial port

• One Parallel port

• One VGA port

• USB 2.0 ports

• High speed V.92, 56K fax/Data modem (optional)

• 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet Network

System peripherals

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The AcerPower S Series computer consists the system itself, and system peripherals, like a mouse, a keyboard and a set of speakers (optional). This section provides a brief description of basic system peripherals.

Mouse(PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option)

The included mouse is a standard two-button wheel mouse. Connect the mouse to the PS/2 mouse port or USB port on the back panel of the system.

Keyboard(PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option)

Connect the keyboard to the PS/2 keyboard port or USB port on the back panel of the system.

Speakers

For systems bundled with speakers, before powering on the system, connect the speaker cable to the audio out (external speaker) port on the back panel of the system.

For more detailed information about the speakers, please refer to the included operating instructions.

Note: speakers are optional and the appearance might be different depending on the actual product.

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System upgrade

You can expand your AcerPower S Series system quickly and easily by adding components. You can also upgrade the components of your AcerPower S Series system.

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