Acer Travelmate 200 Service Guide

TravelMate 200
Service Guide
  PART NO.: 49.50F02.001 
  DOC. NO.:  SG351                                                                                         PRINTED IN TAIWANService guide files and updates are available
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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on TravelMate 200 service guide.
DateChapterUpdates
10/25/2000 Appendix B Revise Test Compatible Components 

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Copyright
Copyright © 1999 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.
NOTE
Gives bits and pieces of additional 
information related to the current 
topic.
WARNING
Alerts you to any damage that might 
result from doing or not doing specific 
actions.
CAUTION
Gives precautionary measures to 
avoid possible hardware or software 
problems.
IMPORTANT
Reminds 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 
System Block Diagram  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 
Board Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
 Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Table of Contents 

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind. Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
!Intel® Mobile® III Celeron CPU families 550/600+ MHz processor.
!64-bit memory bus
!Power saving features via SMI/ACPI control.
!0 MB on board expandable to 512MB
!Support 128KB pipeline burst L2 cache inside CPU.
! 12 .1”  SV GA T FT /STN,  14 .1”  T FT X GA  LCD su ppo rt
! 1.44 MB internal FDD
! 24X CD-ROM Drive
!USB, ZV port and cardbus support
!Onboard DC-DC CPU core and...

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Human-centric Design and Ergonomics
!All-in-one design (CD-ROM, floppy disk drive, hard disk drive) 
!Sleek, smooth and stylish design
!Full sized keyboard
!Ergonomically centred touchpad pointing device
Expansion
! CardBus type III slot or two CardBus type II slots with ZV (zoomed video)port supported.
!Upgrageable memory and hard disk
Display
!LCD display with CCFT backlight, which can be turned off by software. CCFT backlight has AUTO- 
DIM function to extend battery life.
!12.1” HPA or TFT color...

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To close the display cover, fold it down gently until the display cover latch clicks into place.  
WARN ING:  T o avo id da mag ing  the d isp la y, do not  s lam  it  when you c lose  it .  A ls o,  do not  p lace any 
ob ject  on  to p  of the co mpu ter  when  the  d isp lay  is c losed.