Acer VERITON 7600GR User Manual

Veriton 7600G/7600GR

User’s guide

Veriton 7600G/7600GR User’s guide

Second Issue October 2003

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1 First things first 1

System specifications 4 Package contents 6 Accessing the user’s guide 7

2 System tour 9

Features 13

Performance 13 Multimedia 13

Connectivity 13 Front panel 15 Rear panel 17 Keyboard 19

Internet/E-mail/Search keys 20

Multimedia keys 21

Volume control/Mute keys 22

Lock keys 23

Cursor keys 24

Windows keys 25

Function keys 26

Palm rest 26 Optical drive 27

To take care of your CDs and DVDs 28

Hard disk 29

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Contents

3 Setting up your computer 31

Arranging a comfortable work area 35

Adjusting your chair 35

Positioning your PC 35

Positioning your monitor 36

Positioning your keyboard 36

Positioning your mouse 37 Connecting peripherals 38

Connecting your mouse 38

USB mouse 38 PS/2 mouse 39

Connecting your keyboard 40

USB keyboard 40

PS/2 keyboard 41 Connecting a monitor 42 Connecting the power cable 43

Turning on your computer 44 Turning off your computer 45

Connecting options 46

Connecting your printer 46 Connecting the modem (optional) 47 Connecting to the network 48 Connecting multimedia devices 49 Connecting USB devices 53

4 Upgrading your computer 55

Installation precautions 58

ESD precautions 58 Preinstallation instructions 58 Post-installation instructions 59

Opening your computer 61

To remove the side panel 61

To replace the side panel 63 Internal components 65 System boards 66

Mainboard layout 66

Veriton 7600G mainboard layout 67

Audio board 70 Upgrading your computer 71

Installing additional memory 71

To remove a DDR DIMM 71 To install a DDR DIMM 72

To reconfigure your computer 73 Replacing the hard disk 73 Installing an expansion card 76

Contents

5 System utilities 79

Acrobat Reader 83 Acer LANScope (optional) 84 Norton AntiVirus 85

How do I check for viruses using Norton AntiVirus?85

NTI CD-Maker (for models with CD-RW) 87 PowerDVD (for models with DVD) 89

How do I open PowerDVD and watch a DVD?89

BIOS utility 90 Reinstalling programs 91 Recovering your system 92 Using Backup (Windows® XP only) 99

How do I back up files from my hard drive? 99

Disk Defragmenter (Windows® XP only) 100

How do I defragment my hard drive? 100

6 Frequently asked questions 101

Frequently asked questions 104

Appendix A: Notices 107

Appendix B: Taking care of your computer 113

Important tips 114 Cleaning and servicing 114

To clean your computer and keyboard 114 To clean your pointing device 115 To clean your monitor 115 When to contact a service technician 115

Asking for technical assistance 116

Appendix C: RAID introduction( for R series model only)

117

Intel ICH5R Serial ATA RAID Introduction 118 Parallel ATA (P-ATA) and Serial ATA (S-ATA) device configurations supported by Intel ICH5R 118

ATA Operate Mode 118

BIOS Configuration 119

Using the Intel RAID Option ROM 119 Option 1: Create RAID Volume 120 Option 2: Delete RAID Volume 123 Option 3: Reset Disks to Non-RAID 125 Installation of Intel® Application Accelerator RAID Utility 126

RAID Migration Instructions 130

Index 135

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 1.8 - 3.2 GHz

• Intel®Celeron® 2.0 - 2.6 GHz

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System memory

Chipset • Intel®865G+ICH5(7600G)

Graphics Intel® 865G supporting:

Audio AC’97 Codec

LAN Broadcom 5705 supporting 10/100/1000 MB

IDE 2 40 pin parallel ATA IDE slots

FDD 1.44 MB 3.5 inch floppy drive

PS/2 • PS/2 keyboard port

USB Six external USB 2.0 ports

Serial port One serial port

Printer port One parallel printer port

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

• Intel®865G+ICH5 R(7600GR)

• DVMT technology

• Dual Display

connectivity

2 Serial ATA ports

• PS/2 mouse port

Thermal Dynamic fan speed control

Security • Chassis lock

• Chassis intrusion alarm

Wake system Wake on LAN

Wake on modem Mouse/keyboard

Component Specification

HDD • 5400 RPM

• 7200 RPM

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

Operating system

• Windows® 2000

• Windows® XP Home

• Windows® XP Professional

• Novell®

•SCO® Unix

•Red Hat® Linux

Dimensions • Mini-Tower 424(H) /200(W) /414(D)

Weight • Mini-Tower 8.5 kg

Thermal overrides

• System temp >90 until system temp is below 90

•CPU temp >110

CPU temp is below 110

•CPU temp >120

C - functions suspended

C - functions suspended until

C - system auto-shutdown

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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 7600 series

• Items contained in the accessory box

• USB or PS/2 keyboard

• USB or PS/2 mouse

• User’s guide and installation poster

• Other user documentation and third-party software

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 7600 series Online icon.

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

Double-click on the Veriton 7600 series Online icon on your Windows desktop.

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2 System tour

This chapter discusses the features and components of your computer.

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Features

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

Performance

•Intel® Pentium® 4 supporting FSB up to 800 MHz

•Intel® Celeron® CPU supporting FSB up to 400 MHz

•Intel

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

• Power management function

• 3.5-inch floppy drive

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

• High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk

• Supports USB 2.0 high-performance peripherals

® HyperThreading Technology

and higher Pentium® 4 systems

® 865G+ICH5 or 865G+ICH5 R chipset

dual-channel memory

supported on 3.06 GHz

Multimedia

• 3-D quality audio system via onboard audio controller

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

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• One parallel port

• One VGA port

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

• High-speed V.92, 56K Fax/modem (optional)

• Broadcom 5705 10/100/1000 MB Gigabit Ethernet LAN support with remote wake-up function

Front panel

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

2 System tour

Label Icon Component

1 Optical drive tray

2 Stop/Eject button

3 Optical drive emergency eject slot

4 Optical drive activity light-emitting diode (LED)

5 Hard disk activity LED

6 LAN activity LED

7Power LED

8 Power button

9 One touch recovery button

10 Volume control

11 Optical drive Headphone/Earphone port

12 5.25-inch drive bays

13 3.5-inch floppy drive

14 Floppy drive LED

15 Floppy drive eject button

16 Speaker-out/Line-out port

18 USB ports

Microphone-in jack (front)

see note

Rear panel

Your computer’s rear panel consists of the following:

Label Icon Color Component

1 Power cord socket

2 Voltage selector switch

3Power supply

4 Burgundy Parallel/Printer port

5 White Network port

6 Blue CRT/LCD monitor port

7 Green PS/2 mouse port

8 Purple PS/2 keyboard port

9 Black USB ports

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10 Teal or

Turquoise

11 Blue CRT/LCD monitor port (

12 Pink Microphone-in jack (rear)

13 Lime Audio-out/Line-out jack

14 Light blue Audio-in/Line-in jack

15 S-Video out port

16 Handset line port

17 Telephone line port

18 Expansion slots

Serial port

For information on how to connect the peripherals, see page 38 and “Connecting options” on page 46.

Keyboard

The keyboard has full-sized keys that include separate cursor keys, two Windows keys, and twelve function keys.

For information on how to connect your keyboard, see “Connecting your keyboard” on page 40.

No. Description No. Description

1 Sleep button 7 Cursor keys

2 Internet/E-mail/Search

keys

3 Multimedia keys 9 Windows logo key

4 Volume control/Mute keys 10 Caps lock key

5 Scroll lock key 11 Function keys

6 Num lock key

8 Application key

Internet/E-mail/Search keys

Icon Key Description

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Web browser

Email Launches your email application.

Search Opens a search window.

Launches your current default browser.

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

Stop Press to stop playing the audio track

Forward Press to skip forward to the next track

track or video file and start playing.

Press to start playing the audio track or video file. Press again to pause.

or video file.

or video file and start playing.

Volume control/Mute keys

Icon Key Description

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Volum e up

Volum e down

Mute Toggle sound on/off.

Press to increase audio volume.

Press to decrease audio volume.

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

Num Lock When activated, the keypad is set to

Caps Lock When activated, all alphabetic characters

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

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

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

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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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