Acer Veriton 5600GT, Veriton 5600V User Guide

Veriton 5600GT/5600V

User’s Guide

Veriton 5600GT/5600V

User’s Guide

Original Issue 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 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 19

Function keys 20

Palm rest 20 Optical drive 21 Hard disk 23

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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 28

Positioning your keyboard 28

Positioning your mouse 29 Connecting peripherals 30

Connecting your mouse 30

Connecting your keyboard 31

Connecting a monitor 32

Connecting the power cable 32 Turning on your computer 33 Turning off your computer 34 Connecting options 35

Connecting your printer 35

Connecting the modem (optional) 36

Connecting to the network 36

Connecting multimedia devices 38

Connecting USB devices 41

4 Upgrading your computer 43

Installation precautions 45

ESD precautions 45 Preinstallation instructions 45 Post-installation instructions 46

Opening your computer 47

To remove the computer cover 47

To replace the computer cover 47 Internal components 48 System boards 49

Mainboard layout 49

Audio board 52 Upgrading your computer 53

Installing additional memory 53

Replacing the hard disk 55

Installing an expansion card 56

5 System utilities 59

Acrobat Reader 62 Acer LANScope (optional) 63 Norton AntiVirus 64 NTI CD-Maker (for models with CD-RW) 66 PowerDVD (for models with DVD) 68 BIOS utility 69 Reinstalling programs 70 Recovering your system 71 Using Backup (Windows XP only) 76 Disk Defragmenter (Windows XP only) 77

Contents

6 Frequently asked questions 79

FAQs 81

Appendix A: Notices 85

Energy Star Guidelines Compliance 86

FCC notice 86

Notice: Canadian users 87

Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 87

Modem notices 87

Important safety instructions 88

Macrovision copyright protection notice 89 Lithium battery statement 90 Laser compliance statement 90 Declaration of Conformity for CE marking 92 Federal Communications Comission Declaration of Conformity 93

Appendix B: Taking care of your computer 95

Important tips 96 Cleaning and servicing 96 Asking for technical assistance 97

Index 99

Contents

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 - 2.8 GHz

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

Chipset • Intel® 865G+ICH5(5600GT)

Graphics Intel® 865G/865GV 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(5600V)

• DVMT technology

• Dual Display

Two Serial ATA ports

• PS/2 mouse port

(Optional 2nd serial port connecting via “COM2” on page 50)

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 burner/Supermulti plus

Operating system • Windows® 2000

• Windows® XP Home

• Windows® XP Professional

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

Dimensions • Desktop 130.2mm(H) /370mm(W) /435mm(D)

Weight • Desktop 6.5 kg/14.3lb

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 5600 series computer

• Items contained in the accessory box

• PS/2 or USB keyboard

• PS/2 or USB mouse

• 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

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

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

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

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

1 Double-click on the Veriton 5600 series Online icon on your

® PDF file.

Help and Support Center.

Veriton 5600 series Online icon.

Windows desktop.

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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 5600GT) or 865GV+ICH5(for 5600V) 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 and disables the one at the back.

Connectivity

• Two PS/2 interfaces for mouse and keyboard

• One serial port(Option 2nd serial port via “COM2” on page 50)

• 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 V.92, 56K Fax/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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Label Icon Description

1 Hard disk activity light-emitting diode (LED)

2 System activity indicator

3 Power indicator

4 Power button

5 5.25-inch drive bay

6 USB 2.0 ports

7 Headphone/Earphone port

8 Microphone-in jack

9 OBR(One Button Recovery) slot

10 Floppy drive LED

1211 13

Label Icon Description

11 3.5-inch floppy drive

12 Floppy drive eject button

13 Stop/Eject button

14 5.25-inch drive bay

Rear panel

Your computer’s rear panel consists of the following:

Label Icon Color Description

10 1112

1314

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1 Power cable socket

2 Power supply

3 Voltage selector switch

4 Green PS/2 mouse port

5 Purple PS/2 keyboard port

6 Black USB 2.0 ports

7 Teal or

Tur quois e

8 Burgundy Parallel/Printer port

Serial port

Label Icon Color Description

9 Monitor port

10 Black USB 2.0 ports

11 White Network port

12 Pink Microphone-in jack

13 Lime Audio-out/Line-out jack

14 Light blue Audio-in/Line-in jack

15 Expansion slots

For information on how to connect the peripherals, see “Connecting peripherals” on page 30 and “Connecting options” on page 35.

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Keyboard

Your computer comes with a USB keyboard. The keyboard has fullsized 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 30

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

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

Play/Pause Press to start playing the audio track or

Stop Press to stop playing the audio track or

Forward Press to skip forward to the next track or

track or video file and start playing.

video file. Press again to pause.

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

Caps Lock When activated, all alphabetic characters typed

Num Lock When activated, the keypad is set to numeric

Scroll Lock When activated, the screen moves one line up

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

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

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

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.

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).

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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.

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.

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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.

Hard disk

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

Refer to “Replacing the hard disk” on page 55 for instructions on how to upgrade or replace your hard disk.

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