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Aspire T160/E360 AcerPower M6
Service Guide
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PRINTED IN TAIWAN II
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Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire T160/E360 and AcerPower M6 service guide. Date Chapter Updates III
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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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Acer is a registered trademark of Acer Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Athlon 64 / Athlon 64x2 / Sempron are trademarks of AMD Corporation. Other brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective holders. V
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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. VI
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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 Specifications 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Main Board Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Wake-up Event Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 System LED Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Block Diagram .
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Table of Contents Remove the PCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Detach the CPU Cooler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Remove the Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Disconnect the Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 Disassemble the HDD, ODD, FDD and Card Reader . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1 System Specifications Overview CPU AMD Athlon 64 / Athlon 64x2 / Sempron (939) Chipset C51G + MCP51 Memory Dual Channel DDR1 266/333/400, four DDR1 DIMM (Max. four GB) supported System BIOS Feature LCP-4MB (wake on LAN boot) Award BIOS code ACPI supported; S3 will be defaulted. Hardware monitor supported Super I/O ITE8712F with hardware monitor IDE Interface PCI bus master enhanced IDE (MCP51) RTC NCP51 Serial ATA Independent DMA operation on four ports Data transfer rates up to 300MB
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Main Board Specifications Description Size Max. 244 mm x 244 mm, Micro ATX Processor Processor type: AMD Athlon 64 / Athlon 64x2 / Sempron Socket type: AMD Socket 939 Socket quantity: one System Chipset North bridge: Nvidia C51G South bridge: MCP51 Memory Memory type: DDR CAS latency, CL = 4 Socket type: DDR memory slots Socket quantity: four Capacity: 256MB to 4GB Single channel PCI Express / PCI Slots PCI Express Slot type: x1 / x16 Quantity: none / one PCI Slot type: PCI 2.3
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Description USB (Aspire E360/T160) Controller: MCP51 Connectors Quantity: eight Rear connectors: four On-board header: three (2*5 pin) One for front daughter board (2*5 pin Intel EPIO) One for Multi Card Reader (2*5 pin) One for cable (leverage rear USB ports) Data transfer rate support: USB 2.0/1.1 I/O Ports Dual stack PS/2 keyboard / mouse Parallel port Serial port VGA port Dual stack USB ports with 1394 Dual stack USB ports with RJ45 connector Vertical audio conn
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Wake-up Event Specifications S3 (Suspend S4 (Suspend S5 (Shut Device S1 (Idle) to RAM) to Disk) down) Power button Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled PS/2 keyboard Enabled Enabled Enabled No USB keyboard Enabled Enabled Disabled No RTC Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Lan Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled Modem (Ring) Disabled Disabled Disabled Disabled System LED Definition Aspire T160 State Response Power state LED S0: Green steady S1/S3: Green blinking S4/S5: Off HDD state LED IDE active:
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Block Diagram Chapter 1 5
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Main Board Placement 6 Chapter 1
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No. Label Description 1U16 CPU socket 2 U15 North bridge 3 U26 South bridge 4 U2 Audio codec 5 U29 Super I/O controller 6 U3 LAN controller 7J4 TV OUT port 8 KB / MS Keyboard and mouse 9 COM1 COM1 10 PRT Printer 11 VGA VGA 12 1394_USB 1394 USB 13 USB USB port 14 NIC_USB Network and USB connector 15 Audio Audio 16 SYS_FAN System fan connector 17 F_Audio Front audio header 18 CD_IN CD IN 19 AUX_IN AUX IN 20 SPDIF_OUT SPDIF_OUT 21 BZ1 Buzzer 22 SPEAKER Speaker cable connector 23 F_1394 Front 1394 h
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No. Label Description 31 SATA_1 SATA_1 (from left SATA_2 SATA_2 to right) SATA_3 SATA_3 SATA_4 SATA_4 32 SIDE Secondary IDE port 33 PIDE Primary IDE port 34 Floppy Floppy drive connector 35 PWR1 24-pin power connector 36 DIMM1 DIMM socket 1 37 DIMM2 DIMM socket 2 38 DIMM3 DIMM socket 3 39 DIMM4 DIMM socket 4 40 CPU_FAN CPU fan connector 8 Chapter 1
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Aspire T160 Front Panel No. Description 1 Optical device 2 Floppy drive 3 Power button 4 Microphone jack 5 Speaker/Headphone jack 6 USB ports Chapter 1 9
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Aspire E360 Front Panel No. Description 1 Optical driver 2 Optical drive eject button 3 Power button 4 USB ports 5 Speaker/Headphone jack 6 Microphone jack 7 Indicators 8 Floppy disk drive 9 Card reader 10 IEEE 1394 port NOTE: The picture left is the front bezel with cover slided down. 10 Chapter 1
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AcerPower M6 Front Panel No. Description 1 Optical drive 2 Floppy disk drive 3 Card reader 4 Indicators 5 USB ports 6 Microphone jack 7 Speaker/Headphone jack 8 Power button Chapter 1 11
