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 configuration
[Auto]: BIOS or OS chooses configuration
(OS Controlled) Displayed when controlled by OSDisabled
Enabled
Auto
Parallel Port Configure serial port B using options:
[Disabled]: No configuration
[Enabled]: User configuration
[Auto]: BIOS or OS chooses configuration
(OS Controlled) Displayed when controlled by OSDisabled
Enabled
Auto
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility 
          Info.        Main        Advanced      Security       Boot       Exit 
 
  
Item Specific Help 
  
 
  
  
Serial Port:                                        [Auto]
    
Parallel Port:                                     [Auto]
      Mode:                                          [ECP]
Infrared Port(FIR):                             [Auto]
  
    
  
 
 
 
 
  Configure Infrared Port
using oprions:
[Disabled]
    No configuration
[Enabled]
    User configuration 
 
 
 [Auto]
        BIOS or OS chooses
        configuration  
 
 
   (OS Controlled)
     Displayed when
     controlled by OS 
    
 
 
    
   
 
F1  Help       ↑↓ Select Item          F5/F6 Change Values             F9 Setup Defaults 
Esc Exit        ← →  Select Menu      Enter  Select   4Sub-Menu      F10 Save and Exit  
 
  
  
						

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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 are listed in the table below:
Symbol CharacterSymbol Name
A-Z letters A to Z (not case sensitive)
0-9 numerical characters
- dash
= equal sign
[ left bracket
] right bracket
. period
, comma
; semi-colon
/slash
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility 
           Info.       Main       Advanced        Boot 
 
Item Specific Help Supervisor Password is: Clear
 
User Password is: Clear
[Enter]Set Supervisor Password
  
       
 
  
 
Supervisor Password 
controls accesses of the 
setup utility.  
 
 
F1  Help       ↑↓ Select Item          F5/F6 Change Values             F9 Setup Defaults 
Esc Exit        ← →  Select Menu      Enter  Select   4Sub-Menu      F10 Save and Exit  
 
Set User Passord                            [Enter]
Set SATA Port 0 HDD Password     [Enter]                            Exit
Security
 SATA Port 0 Disk Status                 Clear
Password on boot:                           [Disabled] 
						

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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 password dialog box to ask for the password when the system is powered on or 
resumes for S4 state.
If the users fail three times consecutively in password verification, the system will be 
hung up and the users need to manually power off the system. 
•User Password:
If the User 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 not set at first, the User Password can not be set. If the 
Supervisor Password is cleared, the User Password will be cleared, too.
If the User Password is set and Password on boot is enabled, the system will pop up the 
password dialog box to ask for the password when the system is powered on or resumes 
for S4 state.
If the users fail three times consecutively in password verification, the system will be 
hung up and the users need to manually power off the system.
•Set Supervisor Password / User Password:
•Highlight the item and press “Enter”, a dialog box will be shown to ask the users to enter new 
password and confirm new password.
•If the users want to reset password, a current password will be required to be tapped in at first. If 
the current password is correct, the users are permitted to enter new password and confirm new 
password for verification. If the verification is OK, the password setting will be complete after the 
users press “Enter”.
•If the password entered does not match the current password, a dialog box will be shown to ask 
to re-enter the password.
•Set HDD Password: When shown as “Locked”, the hard drive password currently can not be changed 
or disabled. To change or disable it, turn off the system and enter Setup immediately after turning it 
back on. Press “Enter” to input change, or disable hard drive password.
•Password on Boot: It allows the user to specify whether or not a password is required to boot. \ back slash
Symbol CharacterSymbol Name 
						

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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.  and  specifies the device fixed 
or removable.  exclude or include the device to boot.  enables or 
disables a device.  Loads default boot sequence.
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility 
          Info.       Main       Advanced       Security        Exit 
 
  
Item Specific Help 
  
Boot priority order:
   
   
 
 Keys used to view or 
configure devices:
Up and Down arrows 
select a device.
 and  moves 
the device up or down.
 and  specifies
the device fixed or
removable.
 exclude or include
the device to boot.
 enables or
disables a device.
 Loads default
boot sequence. 
 
F1  Help       ↑↓ Select Item          F5/F6 Change Values             F9 Setup Defaults 
Esc Exit        ← →  Select Menu      Enter  Select   4Sub -Menu      F10 Save and Exit  
 
Boot
1: IDE 4:     ST9120821AS-(S1)
2: IDE 5:
3: IDE CD:    PIONEER DVD-RW DVD-K06RS
4: Network Boot:   MBA v9.0.12 Slot 0E20
5: USB HDD:    
7: USB Floppy:
8: USB KEY:
 Excluded from boot order: 
						

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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 Defaults 
 
 Exit System Setup and save 
your changes to CMOS.
 
F1  Help       ↑↓ Select Item          F5/F6 Change Values             F9 Setup Defaults 
Esc Exit        ← →  Select Menu      Enter  Select   4Sub -Menu      F10 Save and Exit  
 
Discard ChangesExit
Save Changes 
						

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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. 
						

							60Chapter 2
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.