Acer Aspire T620 User Guide

Aspire T620

User’s Guide

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Aspire T620

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

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
Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 13
Modem notices 13

TBR 21 13
Important safety instructions 13
Lithium battery statement 15
Laser compliance statement 15
Declaration of Conformity for CE marking 17

Contents

Remark: All the drawings in the Guide are diagrams. About
components’s quantity and style, substances shall take precedence.

1

System Tour

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

Front panel

English

No. Description No. Description

1 Optical Power 2 Power Button

3 USB Port 4 Indicator for Optical Drive

5 Volume Control for Optical

Drive

7 Speaker or Headphone Jack 8 Microphone Jack

6 Floppy Drive

System Tour2

Rear panel

English

No. Description No. Description

1 Fan Aperture 2 Printer Connector

3 RJ-45 Ethernet Connector 4 Line-In Jack

5 Power cord socket 6 Voltage selector switch

7 PS/2 Mouse 8 PS/2 Keyboard Connector

9 Serial Port 10 USB Ports

11 Microphone-In Jack 12 Line-out Jack

13 Digital Visual Interface

3

System Features

Your computer features:

Performance

• Intel® Pentium® 4 LGA775 CPU

• System Memory DDR 400/333 DIMM, 4 DDR DIMM Slots,
expandable to 4GB

• Power management function

• 3.5 inch floppy drive / 6 in 1 card reader (optional)

• CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW (52X/24X), DVD/CD-RW combo or
DVD writer

• High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE drive / SATA

• 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 S-video out port

• One Parallel port

• One VGA port

• Eight USB 2.0 ports (two on the front, four on the rear panel)

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

• 10 / 100 / 1000 Base-TX Ethernet Network