Acer Aspire 1350 Service Guide

Acer Aspire 1350 Series
Service Guide
  SERVICE CD PART NO.: VD.A10V7.001 
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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 1350 service guide.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2003 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 
MESSAGESDenotes actual messages that appear 
on screen.
NOTEGives bits and pieces of additional 
information related to the current 
topic.
WARNINGAlerts you to any damage that might 
result from doing or not doing specific 
actions.
CAUTIONGives precautionary measures to 
avoid possible hardware or software 
problems.
IMPORTANTReminds you to do specific actions 
relevant to the accomplishment of 
procedures. 

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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 Acers 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 will NOT...

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 System Specifications  1
Features  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Block Diagram  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Top View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Table of Contents
Touchpad Check  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Power-On Self-Test (POST) Error Message   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Index of Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Index of Symptom-to-FRU Error Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Intermittent Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
TAMD Athlon XP-M 2000+ ~ 3000+ processor
TVIA KN400 series
T2 memory slots supporting 266/333MHz DDR, upgradeable to 2GB
THigh capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk
Display
TThe 14.1” or 15.0” display panel provides a large viewing area for maximum efficiency and ease- 
of-use. The thin-film transistor (TFT) supports extended graphics array (XGA) resolution.
T3D graphics support...

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Human-centric design
TAll-in-one design (incorporating hard drive, optical drive and floppy disk drive)
TRugged, yet extremely protable, construction
TStylish appearance
TFull-size keyboard with four programmable launch keys
TComfortable palm rest area with well-positioned touchpad
Expansion
TUpgradeable hard disk and memory modules
TPC card slot enables a range of add-on options
I/O Ports
TOne type II or type III PC Card slot (PCMCIA or CardBus)
TOne IEEE 1394 port
TOne microphone-in jack...