Acer Aspire 9500 Service Guide

Aspire 9500
Service Guide
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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 9500 service guide.
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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...

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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
MainBoard Placement   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System Block Diagram  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Outlook View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
TCPU : Intel® Dothan® with  FCPGA Package
TIntel® Pentium® M Processor 725a
T2MB L2 cache
T1.60GHz speed
Tsupport 400MHz FSB 
TIntel® Pentium® M Processor 730/740/750/760/770
T2MB L2 cache
T1.60/1.73/1.86/2.13 GHz speed
Tsupport 533MHz FSB or higher
TIntel® Celeron® M Processor 370 
T1M L2 cache
T1.5 GHz speed
Tsupport 400 MHz FSB or higher 
T 915 GM (for UMA) / 915 PM ( for...

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Graphics
TAT I  M O B I L I T YTM RADEONTM X700(M26P) with 128/256 MB of external DDR video RAM 
supporting Microsoft®  DirectX®  9.0
TAT I  P O W E R P L AYTM 5.0 support
TDualViewTM support
TPCI ExpressTM X16 graphic card support
TIntel®  915GM integrated 3D graphics featuring Intel®  Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and up to 
128MB of VRAM, supporting Microsoft®  DirectX ® 9.0
TDual independent display support
TExternal resolution/refresh rate
T2040x1536: 75/60 Hz
T1600x1200: 120/100/85/75/60/ Hz...

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Storage
T60/80/100 GB ATA/100 hard disk drive
T9.5mm height, 2.5” HDD
TPCI Bus Master Enhanced IDE
TSupport Ultra DMA100, S.M.A.R.T
T4200/5400RPM 
TPATA/SATA co-layout (one HDD only) 
TPATA mode only (HDD: Master, ODD: Slave)
TMix mode (HDD: SATA-0, ODD: PATA Master)
T5-in1 card reader, supporting MultiMedia Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick®  (MS), 
Memory Stick PROTM (MS-Pro), and xD-Picture CardTM
ODD
TSlot-in type
T12.7mm DVD-Combo, DVD Dual, and DVD Super Multi...

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PCMCIA
TPC Card & Carbus card supported with one type II 
Tno ZV(Zoomed Video) support
Express Card
TOne PCI-Express card (Left side)
Communication
T56Kbps V.90/V.92 HD Audio modem card (MDC) 
TGigabit Ethernet LAN on board
TWLAN 802.11b/g and 802.11 a/b/g with mini-PCI interface
TBulit-in 2 Antennas
TBluetooth v2.0 module (Broadcom) wiht mini-USB interface
I/O Ports
TColor-coded connectors
T5 USB 2.0 ports 
T1 Ethernet (RJ-45) port
T1 Modeom (RJ-11) port
T1 External VGA port
T1 Infrared (FIR)
T1 CIR...