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Acer Aspire 1710 Series
Service Guide
Project Code: A15
Please note that Aspire 1710 has the same housing with Aspire 1700. And this model will not have service CD.
Please refer to Aspire 1700 service CD (Part No.: VD.A08V7.001) for disassembling mpeg files.
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Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 1710 service guide. Date Chapter Updates II
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Copyright Copyright © 2004 by Acer Incorporated. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Acer Incorporated. Disclaimer The information in this guide is subject to change without notice. Acer Incorporated makes no
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Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: Screen messages Denotes actual messages that appear on screen. NOTE Gives bits and pieces of additional information related to the current topic. WARNING Alerts you to any damage that might result from doing or not doing specific actions. CAUTION Gives precautionary measures to avoid possible hardware or software problems. IMPORTANT Reminds you to do specific actions relevant to the accomplishment of procedures. IV
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Preface Before using this information and the product it supports, please read the following general information. 1. This Service Guide provides you with all technical information relating to the BASIC CONFIGURATION decided for Acer "global" product offering. To better fit local market requirements and enhance product competitiveness, your regional office MAY have decided to extend the functionality of a machine (e.g. add-on card, modem, or extra memory capability). These LOCALIZED FEATURES w
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 System Introduction 1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 System Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Board Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents Remove the side bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Remove the LED cable attached on the LCD outer shield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Remove the subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Release the MDC cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Disconnect the cable to the modem header . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents IX
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Chapter 1 System Introduction Features This computer was designed with the user in mind. Here are just a few of its many features: Performance ® ® Intel Pentium 4 FSB 800 processors L2 cache 1MB Intel 865G with ICH-5, support 800MHz Front Side Bus, dual channel and HTT support 80 GB or higher-capacity Desktop 5400rpm, 7200rpm HDD ® ® Microsoft Windows XP Home/Pro operating system Optional 6-in-1 Multimedia memory card reader module Multimedia DVD/CD-RW combo DVD Dual drive Audio input
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One external monitor port Two IEEE 1394 ports One PS/2 port One microphone-in jack (3.5mm mini jack) One headphone jack (3.5mm mini jack) Four Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports Display and video 17” Desktop liquid-crystal display (LCD) at 1280 x 1024 Super Graphics Array (SXGA) resolution Simultaneous LCD and CRT display Dual independent display support Hardware 3D graphic engine Audio 16-bit stereo audio (AC’97) Two built-in stereo speakers Audio ports for microphone-in and headpho
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Display The 17” display panel provides a large viewing area for maximum efficiency and ease-of-use. The liquid crystal display (LCD) supports SXGA resolution with 16 million colors at 1280 x 1024. Video Performance Your Aspire 1710 series computer features an accelerated graphics port (AGP) video system with Intel 865G embedded VGA engine and 64MB UMA RAM, and nVIDIA NV-34M/NV-36M series (64M/128M AGP card) as an option. This provides a robust solution, while enabling high quality video outpu
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System Block Diagram 4 Aspire 1710 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PCI DEVICES IDSEL # REQ/GNT # IRQ 3*CPU/CPU- DT3 AGP N/A N/A A, C 1*SDRAM Main LVDS LAN AD16 0B 5*3V66 Panel CLOCK 3*PCIF Card bus AD17 1 C INTEL P4 CPU LVDS 7*PCI 1394 AD18 2 D AGP Board Northwood/ Prescott GEN. 2*REF MINI-PCI AD19 3 E,F L L (FCPGA 478) ICS952623 Graphic Chip PAGE : 03,04 2*48MHz D O O D 1*SRC/SRC# PAGE : 12 ATi or nVIDIA N N LCD ID2 LCD ID1 LCD ID0 Host Bus LCD Panel G G SB SB SB (400/533/800MHz) Y/C RGB AGP 8X BUS PANEL_ID2 P
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Board Layout Top View Chapter 1 5
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1 PS2 Port 16 Mini 1394 Connector 2 Parallel Port 17 MIC Connector 3 LAN Connector 18 Line Out Connector 4 CPU Fan Connector 19 Woofer Connector 5 COM1 Port 20 VGA Board Connector 6 VGA Port 21 Battery Connector 7 S-Video Port 22 RTC Battery Connector 8 Modem Connector 23 PCI Board Connector 9 MDC Connector 24 HDD Connector 11 USB Port 25 CD/DVD-ROM Module Connector 12 DC-In Connector 26 HDD Power Connector 13 CPU Socket 27 DDR RAM Socket-1 14 USB Port 28 DDR RAM Socket-2 15 1394 Connector 6 Asp
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Bottom View 1 Audio DJ FFC Connector 2 Keyboard Connector 3 Speaker Connector 4 LED Board FFC Connector 5 FDD FFC Connector 6 Touchpad FFC Connector Chapter 1 7
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Panel Ports allow you to connect peripheral devices to your computer as you would with a desktop PC. Front Panel # Item Description 1 Display Large liquid crystal display (LCD) provides visual output. 2 Power button Turns the computer on and off. 3 Keyboard Full-size keyboard for inputing typed data. 4 Touchpad Touch sensitive pad that functions like a computer mouse. 5 Click buttons & scroll key Right and left buttons that provide the same functions as buttons on a computer mouse. The scroll k
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Closed front view # Item Description 1 Speakers Left and right speakers deliver stereo audio output. 2 Wireless communication indicator Lights when the Wireless LAN, or Bluetooth, capability is enabled. 3 Power indicator Lights when the computer is on. Chapter 1 9
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Left view # Item/ Port Description 1 Optical drive Depending on your model, the optical drive is one of the followin: DVD/CD-RW combo drive for reading CDs and DVDs, and writing to CD-Rs and CD-RWs. DVD Dual 2 Optical disc read indicator Light emitting diode (LED) that indicates when an optical disc is being read. 3 Optical drive eject button Press the eject button to remove a disc from the optical drive. 4 Optical drive emergency eject hole Used to eject an optical disc when the computer
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Right view # Icon Item/ Port Description 1 Right latch Locks and releases the lid (one on the right and one on the left.) 2 Speaker/Headphone-out jack Connects to audio line-out devices (e.g. speakers, headphones). 3 Line-in/Mic-in jack Accepts audio line-in devices (e.g. audio CD player, stereo walkman). Selection is through the OS Windows mixer. 4 IEEE 1394 port Connects to an IEEE 1394 device. 5 IEEE 1394 port Connects to an IEEE 1394 device. 6 Two USB ports Connects USB 2.0 devices. 7 DC
