Acer Aspire 2020 Service Guide

Aspire 2010
Aspire 2020
Service Guide
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NOTE: This is Aspire 2000 extension model. Please refer to Aspire 2000 
              Service CD(P/N: VD.A20V5.001) for the disassemble mpeg file. Service guide files and updates are available
on the ACER/CSD web; for more information, 
please refer to http://csd.acer.com.tw 

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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 2010/2020 service guide.
D ateChapterUpdates 

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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 
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  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Board Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Top View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Table of Contents
Disassemble the Main Unit(Touchpad, Bluetooth and LCM Board)  . . . . . . . . . . 65
Disassemble the Main Unit(Speakers, Fan, Thermal and CPU)   . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Disassemble the Main Unit(VGA, Card Reader, Sub-Woofer and M/B)  . . . . . . . 67
Disassemble the LCD Module   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Disassemble the ODD Module  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Disassemble the...

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
TIntel® Pentium M processor at 1.4~ 1.8 GMHz or higher with uPGA478 socket
TIntel 855GME + Intel ICH4-M
T1MB L2 cache or 2MB L2 cache, 400MHz FSB, supporting Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® 
technology 
T30GB and up Enhanced-IDE hard disk drive
T512KB Flash BIOS ROM
Memory
T256MB of DDR333 memory, upgradeable to 2GB with dual SODIMM modules
T0MB DDR RAM on board
TTwo 256MB of DDR333...

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T1920x1200: 100/85/80/75/72/60 Hz
T1600x1200:120/100/92/85/76/75/72/70/66/65/60/58/52 Hz
T1280x1024: 160/120/100/90/85/75/74/72/70/60 Hz
T1280x768: 85/75/60/56 Hz
T1024x768: 200/160/150/140/120/100/90/85/75/72/70/60 Hz
T800x600: 200/160/140/120/100/90/85/75/72/70/60/56 Hz
Multimedia
TBuilt-in optical drive (Tray loading DVD/CD-RW Combo or DVD Super-Mulit Drive Aspire 2010 
only)
TBuilt-in optical drive (Slot-loading DVD/CD-RW Combo or DVD Super-Multi or Tray-loading DVD 
Dual Drive  Aspire...

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Graphics
TIntel® 855GME integrated 3D AGP graphics featuring Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 technology and 
up to 64MB of video memory (for model with UMA only)
TATI Radeon 9700 with 64MB DDR VGA Memory (for model with Discrete VGA only)
TAT I  M O B I L I T YTM RADEONTM 9700 with 128MB of external DDR video RAM, supporting 
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 (for Aspire 2020 only)
TSimultaneous LCD and CRT display at 2040x1536 pixel resolution
TDuralViewTM support
TAspire cinema vision video encoded...