Acer Ferrari 4000 Service Guide

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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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Buttons
Application Launch Buttons
NOTE: Detail description and definition of application Launch Buttons, please reference the External spec. 
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 pressed for more than 4 seconds then the...

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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 to enter HDD password when system boot up. 
TIf user enter the wrong password, it will pop out message “Setup Warning, Invalid Passwrod”.....
TIf the password is correct, system will...

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Information 
ParameterDescription
CPU Type Display the CPU Type
CPU Speed Display the CPU Speed
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” 
should be shown on the field.
HDD Serial Number This item will show the Serial number of HDD installed on Primary IDE 
master. If no Hard disk or other devices are installed on Primary...

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Main
This menu provides you the information of the system.
ParameterDescriptionOption
System Time The hours are displayed with 24 hours format. The values set in these two fields 
take effect immediately.
System Date
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 :...

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Network Boot When this is selected, Boot from LAN feature is enabled. 
When this is not selected, Boot from LAN feature is then 
disabledDisabled 
Enabled
F12 Boot Menu When this is selected, users can modify device boot priority 
by pressing  key during POST. When this is not 
selected, device boot priority will not be adjustable during 
POSTDisabled
Enabled
D2D Recovery Allow user to enable/disable the Disk-to-Disk recovery
Help note:
Enable Acer disc-to-disc system recovery via Alt+F10 key...

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Advanced
The Advanced screen contains parameters involving your hardware devices. It also provides advanced
 settings of the system.
The table below describes the parameters in the screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested
 parameter settings.
ParameterDescriptionOption
Serial port A Configure serial port A using options:
[Disabled]: No configuration
[Enabled]: User configuration
[Auto]: BIOS or OS chooses configuration
(OS Controlled) Displayed when controlled 
by...

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Parallel Port Configure serial port B using options:
[Disabled]: No configuration
[Enabled]: User configuration
[Auto]: BIOS or OS chooses configuration
(OS Controlled) Displayedd when controlled 
by OSDisabled
Enabled
Auto
Mode Set the mode for the parallel port using 
options:
Output only Bi-directional 
EPP
ECPQutput only
Bi-directional
EPP
ECP
ParameterDescriptionOption 

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Security
The Security screen contains parameters that help safeguard and protect your computer from 
unauthorized use.
If password on boot is required, the password must be set otherwise it cannot be enabled.
The formats of the password are as follows:
TLength           10 characters
TCharacters    Alphanumeric keys only. The shift status i.e. Ctrl, Shift, Alt and Capital are ignored.
The table below describes the parameters in this screen. Settings in boldface are the default and 
suggested...

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Set Supervisor Password  Defines whether a password is required or not while the events defined 
in this group happened. The following sub-options are all requires the 
Supervisor password for changes and should be grayed out if the user 
password was used to enter setup. 
When you set Supervisor password already and then you reboot and 
into BIOS setup manual by User password, the set Supervisor 
password, Boot device and Lock Hard Drive will be disable. 
Allows the user to specify whether...