Acer Ferrari 5000 Service Guide

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Advanced
The Advanced menu screen contains parameters involving your hardware devices. It also provides 
advanced settings of the system.
ParameterDescriptionOption
Serial Port Configure serial port A using options:
[Disabled]: No configuration
[Enabled]: User configuration
[Auto]: BIOS or OS chooses configuration
(OS Controlled) Displayed when controlled by OSDisabled
Enabled
Auto
Infrared Port  Configure serial port B using options:
[Disabled]: No configuration
[Enabled]: User...

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Mode Set the mode for the parallel port  Output only
Bi-directional
EPP
ECP
ParameterDescriptionOption 

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Security
The system supports three levels of password protection. The password support consists of a 
Supervisor Password, User Password, and Hard Disk Password. All the passwords are stored in a 
non-volatile storage device (EEPROM). 
•Password Policy:
All the passwords will obey the following rules:
•All the passwords can be set or cleared in BIOS Setup Security screen.
•The password entry consists of eight alphanumeric characters. At least one character must be 
assigned.
•The valid keys...

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•The users can not change or remove password during resuming from S4.
•The max. number of times to retry the password is limited to three.
•Supervisor Password:
Supervisor Password controls the access of the whole BIOS Setup Utility. If the 
Supervisor Password is set, the system will pop up the password dialog box to ask for 
the password when the users press  for entering BIOS Setup Utility.
If the Supervisor Password is set and Password on boot is enabled, the system will pop 
up the...

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Boot
This menu allows the users to decide the order of bootable devices to load the operating system. It 
identifies all the bootable devices in the system and attempts to boot them in the order specified. 
Bootable devices include the diskette drive in module bay, the hard disk and the CD-ROM/DVD 
drive in module bay and onboard LAN device.
ParameterDescription
Boot priority order Keys used to view or configure devices: Up and Down arrows select a device. 
 and  move the device up or down....

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Exit
ParameterDescription
Exit Saving Changes Exit System Setup and save your changes to CMOS
Exit Discarding 
ChangesExit utility without saving Setup data to CMOS
Load Setup Default Load default values for all SETUP items
Discard Changes Load previous values from CMOS for all SETUP items
Save Changes  Save Setup Data to CMOS
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility 
  Info. Main       Advanced       Security        Boot
 
  
Item Specific Help 
Exit Saving Changes  
Exit Dicarding Changes   
Load Setup...

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BIOS Password Removal SOP
Please follow the steps below to remove the BIOS password.
Step One Machine 1
Key in wrong Supervisor Password three times and System Disabled will show.
Step Two Machine 2: Run BIOS_PW.EXE
1.Key in bios_pw 14452 0
2.Then choose one string. 

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Step Three Machine 1
1.Reboot system and key in qjjg9vy or 07yqmjd in the BIOS user password column. 

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HDD Password Removal SOP
Please follow the steps below to remove the HDD password.
Step One Machine 1
1.Key in wrong HDD password three times and HDD password error code will come out.
Step Two Machine 2: Run HDD_PW.EXE
1.Key in hdd_pw 15494 0
2.Select 2 (upper case ASCII Code).
3.Then choose one string. 

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Step Three Machine 1
Reboot system and key in 0KJFN42 or UVEIQ96 in the HDD user password column.