Acer Aspire 9400 Service Guide

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Start-up time Shall less than 5 sec
Hold up time at least 5ms (@115 Vac input, full load)
Over Voltage Protection 
(OVP)29V
Over Current 
Protection(OCP)Output current limit is 5A(Max mode)
Short circuit protection Output can be shorted without damage, and auto recovery
Electrostatic discharge 
(ESD)15kV (at air discharge)
8kV (at contact discharge)
Dielectric Withstand Voltage
Primary to secondary 2150VDC for 1 sec
Leakage current  less than 100uA
Regulatory Requirements 1. CISPR 22 Class B...

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ItemSpecification
Vendor & 
Model NameSegate ST960812A Segate ST980829A Segate ST9100825A
Capacity 
(MB)60000 80000 100000
Bytes per 
sector512 512 512
Data heads 2 3 4
Drive Format
Disks 1 2 2
Spind le 
speed 
(RPM)4200 RPM 4200 RPM 4200 RPM
Performance Specifications
Buffer size  8184KB 8184KB 8184KB
Interface Parallel ATA Parallel ATA Parallel ATA
Max. media 
transfer rate 
(disk-buffer, 
Mbytes/s)56.25 56.25 56.25
Data transfer 
rate 
(host~buffer, 
Mbytes/s)100 MB/Sec.(Ultra DMA 
Mode...

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Applicable disc format DVD(read): DVD-ROM 5,9,10,18, 
DVD-VIDEO, DVD-AUDIO, DVD-R, 
DVD-R 3.95G, DVD-R MULTI 
BORDER, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R 
DL, DVD+R MULTI-SESSION, 
DVD+RW
CD(read):CD-DA, CD-ROM Mode-1, 
CD-ROM/XA Mode-2 Form-1 Form-2, 
CD-I, CD-I Bridge, Video-CD(MPEG-
1), Karaoke CD, Photo-CD, Enhanced 
CD, CD Plus, CD Extra, i-trax CD, CD-
Text, CD-R, and CD-RW
DVD(write): DVD Data&Video
CD(write): CD-DA, CD-ROM Mode-1, 
CD-ROM/XA Mode-2 Form-1 and 
Mode-2 Form-2, CD-i, Video-CD, CD-
Te x...

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Loading mechanism Load: Manual load Manual load/DC brushless 
motor system
Power Requirement Max. 1300mA Max. 1200mA
Input Voltage 5 V +/- 5 % (Operating)  5 V +/- 5 % (Operating) 
8X Super Multi Interface
ItemSpecification
Vendor & model name Liteon SSM 8515S Panasonic UJ-845
Performance 
Specification
Transfer rate (KB/sec) Sustained:
DVD:Min 10.00Mbytes/sec
CD: 3500Kbytes/secSustained:
DVD:Min 10.5Mbytes/sec
CD: 3600 Kbytes/sec
Access Time(Typical) DVD: Random Access: 130 ms
DVD:Full...

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Sleeping State (S3) CPU Power Down
VGA Power Down
PCMCIA Suspend
Audio Power Down
Hard Disk Power Down
Super I/O Power Down
Sleeping State (S4) Also called Hibernate state. System saves all system 
states and data onto the disk prior to power off the whole 
system.
Dimensions and Weight
ItemDetails
ModelAspire 1690Aspire 3510
Deminsions 400mm(W) x 295mm(D) x 31.4~39.9mm(H)
Weight 3.79Kg
Environmental Requirements
ItemSpecification
Temperature
Operating +5 ~  +35°C
Non-operating -20 ~ +65°C...

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BIOS Setup Utility
The BIOS Setup Utility is a hardware configuration program built into your computer’s BIOS (Basic Input/
Output System).
Your computer is already properly configured and optimized, and you do not need to run this utility. However, 
if you encounter configuration problems, you may need to run Setup.  Please also refer to Chapter 4
 Troubleshooting when problem arises.
To activate the BIOS Utility, press 
m during POST (when “Press  to enter Setup” message is prompted
 on the...

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Information
ParameterDescription
CPU Type This item will show the CPU information of the system.
CPU Speed This item will show the CPU clock speed.
IDE1 Model Name This item will show the Model name of HDD installed on Primary IDE 
master. The hard disk model name is automatically detected by the 
system. If there is no hard disk present or unknown type, “None” 
should be shown on this field
IDE1 Serial Number This item will show the Serial number of HDD installed on Primary IDE 
master. If...

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Main
This menu provides you the information of the system.
ParameterDescription
System Time / System 
Date The hours are displayed with 24 hours format. The values set in these two fields 
take effect immediately.
System Memory This field reports the memory size of system base memory.  The size is fixed to 
640KB. 
Extended Memory This field reports the memory size of the extended memory in the system. 
Extended Memory size = Total memory size - 1 MB 
Video Memory VGA Memory size = 128MB...

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F12 Boot Menu When this is selected, users can modify device boot priority by pressing F12 key 
during POST. When this is not selected, device boot priority will not be 
adjustable during POST.
D2D Recovery Allow user to enable/disable the Disk-to-Disk recovery
ParameterDescription 

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Security
The Security screen contains parameters that help safeguard and protect your computer from 
unauthorized use.
The table below describes the parameters in this screen. Settings in boldface are the default and 
suggested  parameter settings.
ParameterDescriptionOption
Supervisor Password Is N/A N/A
User Password Is N/A N/A
HDD Password Is N/A N/A
Set Supervisor Password Press Enter to set the administrator 
password. When set, this password 
protects the BIOS Setup Utility from...