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Aspire 3000/3500/5000 Series
Service Guide
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Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 3000/3500/5000 service guide. Date Chapter Updates 2
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Copyright Copyright © 2005 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 r
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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. 4
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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's "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
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 System Introduction 1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3000/5000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3500) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Board Layout (For Aspire 3000/5000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents Removing the Upper Case Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Removing the Power Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Removing the Touchpad Bracket, the Touchpad Board and the Touchpad . . . .59 Removing the Speaker Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Removing the SW DJ Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents III
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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: Microprocessor Mobile AMD Turion 64 processor ML-28/ML-30 or higher for Aspire 5000 Mobile AMD Sempron processor 2600+ to 3000+ or higher for Aspire 3000 ® ® Intel Celeron M 350/360/370 processor at 1.3/1.4/1.5 GHz, 400 MHz FSB for Aspire 3500 series ® ® Intel Pentium M 715 processor at 1.5 GHz, 400 MHz FSB for Aspire 3500 series Memory 256 MB or 512 MB of DDR
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Input devices TM 88-/89-key Acer FineTouch keyboard Touchpad with 4-way integrated scroll button Four easy-launch buttons ® Two front-panel buttons: wireless LED-button and Bluetooth LED-button I/O interface Three USB 2.0 ports Ethernet (RJ-45) port Modem (RJ-11) port External display (VGA) port Microphone/line-in jack Headphones/speaker/line-out port Type II PC Card slot DC-in jack for AC adaptor 2 Aspire 3000/3500//5000
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System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3000/5000) 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 HOST 200MHz CPU ZCLK 133MHz ZL5 AMD Athlon64 CLK-GEN AGP 66MHz DDR 333 ICS 952801 DDR SO-DIMM SMT uPGA754 Thermal Block Diagram PCI 33MHz D D Page 5 Page 3,4 Thermal sensor & Fan USB 48MHz HyperTransport REF 14.318MHz 16x16 Page 2 1600MT/s CRT RGB 1x D-SUB 15-Pin Page 10 INTA# NB LCD 3V_ALWAYS DVO LVDS LVDS 15" XGA/WXGA SIS M760GX Page 10 5VPCU (698 PIN BGA) Transmitter SIS302ELV 3V_S5 Page 6,7,8 Page 9 1.8V_S5 3V/5V MuTIOL(1GB/s) 3VSUS
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System Block Diagram (For Aspire 3500) ® Aspire 3500 is Intel platform. It has different system block diagram from Aspire 3000/5000. Aspire 3500 system block diagram will be released later. 4 Aspire 3000/3500//5000
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Board Layout (For Aspire 3000/5000) Top View [14] [13] [15] [42] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [24] [23] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [39][40] [41][37] [38] [34][35][36] 13 Power Jack 14 CRT Connector 15 Battery Connector 16 ODD Connector 17 302ELV LVDS Encoder 18 RJ45 & RJ11 Connector 19 MINI PCI 20 Northbridge M760GX 21 CPU Socket 22 USB Connector 23 USB Connector 24 BIOS ROM 25 EC PC97551 26 RTC Battery 27 DDR SO-DIMM Socket1 28 LAN PHY RTL8201CP Chapter 1 5
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29 DDR SO-DIMM Socket2 30 Southbridge 963L 31 PCMCIA Connector 32 HDD Connector 33 USB Connector 34 LineOut Jack 35 Microphone Jack 36 LineIn Jack 37 WLAN Button 38 Bluetooth button 39 Battery LED 40 Power LED 41 Audio Codec ALC203 42 FAN Connector Bottom View [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10] [11] [12] 1 Lid Switch 2 Panel Connector 6 Aspire 3000/3500//5000
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3 LED Board Connector 4 Modem Connector 5 Keyboard Connector 6 Bluetooth Module Connector 7 Touchpad Board Connector 8 Internal Microphone Connector 9 Clock Generator 10 PCMCIA Connector 11 MDC Connector 12 Internal Speaker Connector Chapter 1 7
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Panel This is a brief introduction to the I/O ports, the features and the indicators. Front view # Item Description 1 Display screen Also called LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), displays computer output. 2 Microphone Internal microphone for sound recording. 3 Keyboard For entering data into you computer. 4 Palmrest Comfortable support area for your hands when you use the computer. 5 Click buttons (Left and right) The left and right buttons function like the left and right mouse buttons. 6 Touchp
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Closed front view # Icon Item/ Port Description 1 Speakers Left and right speakers deliver stereo audio output. 2 Power indicator Lights up when the computer is on. 3 Battery indicator Lights up when the battery is being charged. 4 Bluetooth communication button/ Press to enable/disable the Bluetooth function. indicator (for selected models) Indicates the status of Bluetooth communication (optional). 5 Wireless communication button/ Press to enable/disable the wireless function. # Item Descr
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# Icon Item/ Port Description 1 Optical drive Internal optical drive; accepts CDs or DVDs depending on the optical drive type. 2 LED indicator Lights up when the optical drive is active. 3 Emergency eject hole Ejects the optical drive tray when the computer is turned off. 4 Optical drive eject button Ejects the optical drive tray from the drive. Right view # Icon Item/ Port Description 1 PC Card slot eject button Ejects the PC Card from the slot 2 PC card slot Accepts one Type II CardBus PC Ca
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# Icon Port Description 1 Power jack Connects to an AC adaptor. 2 External display port Connects to a display device (e.g., external monitor, LCD projector). 3 Security keylock Connects to a Kensington-compatible computer security lock. Bottom view # Item Description 1 Hard disc bay Houses the computer’s hard disc (secured by a screw). 2 Battery release latch Unlatches the battery to remove the battery pack. 3 Battery bay Houses the computer’s battery pack. 4 Battery lock Locks the battery in
