Acer Aspire S series User's Guide

Aspire S Series

User’s Guide

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Aspire 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 6

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 8
Shutting down your computer 8

Troubleshooting 9

Contents

Taking Care of your computer 11

Important tips 11
Cleaning and servicing 11

To clean your computer and keyboard 11

To clean your pointing device 12

To clean your optical mouse 12

To clean your monitor 12
When to contact a service technician 12

Asking for technical assistance 12
Energy Star Guidelines Compliance 13
FCC notice 13
Notice: Canadian users 14
Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 14
Modem notices 14

Notice for USA 14

TBR 21 15

Notice for Australia 15
Important safety instructions 15
Macrovision® copyright protection notice 17
Lithium battery statement 17
Laser compliance statement 18
Declaration of Conformity 19
Federal Communications Comission
Declaration of Conformity 21

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1

System Tour

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

Front panel

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1

2

3

4
5

6

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

System Tour2

English

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

USB Ports

LAN Port

3

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 (52X/24X), 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.

English

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

System Tour4

English

The Aspire 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.