Acer Aspire 9500 Service Guide

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Jumper Board 
VGA Board 
ItemDescription
JP1 To LCD Connector 
JP2 To M/B Connector
U4 VGA Chip
U3,U5,U6,U7 Graphic Memory 

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Power Board 
Touchpad Board 
ItemDescriptionItem Description
SW1 Power Button D1 Power LED
SW2 Empowering Button D2 E-Mail LED 
SW3 User Button 1 D3 Media LED 
SW4 Internet Button D4 Caps Lock LED
SW5 E-Mail Button D5 Num Lock LED 
ItemDescriptionItem Description
SW1 Scroll-up Button SW4 Scroll-down Button 
SW2 Scroll-left Button SW5 Left Button 
SW3 Scroll-right Button SW6 Right Button  

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LED Board 
Media Board 
ItemDescriptionItem Description
SW1 WLAN ON/OFF Button D4 Suspend LED 
SW2 Bluetooth ON/OFF Button D5 Battery Discharge LED 
D1 WLAN LED D6 Battery Charge LED 
D2 Bluetooth LED IR1 CIR Module 
D3 POWER LED 
ItemDescriptionItem Description
SW1 WLAN ON/OFF Button D4 Suspend LED
SW2  Bluetooth ON/OFF Button D5 Battery Discharge LED
SW3 ARCADE Button D6 Battery Charge LED
SW4 PLAY/PAUSE Button D7 ARCADE LED
SW5 STOP Button D8 ARCADE ON LED
SW6 REV Button D9 LED
SW7 FWD Button D10...

Aspire 9500
Clear CMOS Jumper 
J1 : Clear CMOS JUMPER 
  

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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...

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System Controls
Hot Keys 
All Fn Key will support Sticky key mode.
Euro, and USD dollar key: Under different language OS, user is able to input Euro dollar sign,and USD dollar 
sign when word processing.  
Hot KeyFunctionDescription
Fn + F1 Hot key Help Menu  This key will cause a help message to appear on the 
display device that describes the definition and functionality 
of the unit hot keys. It is preferred to have the key activate a 
graphical display. 
Fn + F2 Launch Acer eSettings...

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Buttons
Application Launch Buttons
NOTE: Detail description and definition of application Launch Buttons, please reference the External spec. 
Wireless LAN & Bluetooth Default Setting 
Power Button
The activity of the power button is as follows: 
TIf power button is pressed for less than 1 second then nothing happens. 
TIf power button is pressed for more than 1 second but less than 4 seconds then system would execute 
User Requested OFF before the system entered into OS.
TIf power button is...

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       Power off). However, if the setting is nothing, the backlight must still be turned off when the lid is closed. 
TLid Open action does not resume the system from S3, S4, and S5. 
Hard Disk Password Function/ Password on boot function 
This feature allows the user to set the password to prevent any unauthorized access to the internal hard disk. 
TIf the original HDD come from other machine with password protected, the system just show ” Enter HDD 
password [         ]”
User is required...

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Information 
ParameterDescription
Product Name This field will show the product name 
Manufacture Name This field will show manufacturer name
BIOS Version This field reports the BIOS version of system
VGA Version This field reports the VGA version of the system
HDD 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” 
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Video Memory VGA Memory size :
Discrete = 64 or 128MB (depends on actual VRAM size) 
TurboCache = 32MB (actual TurboCache VRAM size) 
Intel 915 DVMT: selectable between the following: 
1.64MB (8MB pre-allocated + 56MB DVMT) 
2.128MB (8MB pre-allocated + 128DVMT).  This is the default 
value. 
3.Max DVMT (160MB on 256MB system memory, 224MB on 
512MB and above system memory).    
ParameterDescription