Acer Travelmate 250 Service Guide

Acer TravelMate 240/250 Series
Service Guide
  SERVICE CD PART NO.: VD.T30V1.001
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Revision History
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Copyright
Copyright © 2003 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.
NOTEGives bits and pieces of additional 
information related to the current 
topic.
WARNINGAlerts you to any damage that might 
result from doing or not doing specific 
actions.
CAUTIONGives precautionary measures to 
avoid possible hardware or software 
problems.
IMPORTANTReminds 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 Acer 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 be...

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 System Introduction  1
Features  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Block Diagram  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Microsoft Windows 2000 Environment Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Microsoft Windows 98 Environment Test  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Appendix C Online Support Information  142
 Index 144 

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Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind. Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
TIntel® Mobile Pentium® 4 series processors with 512 KB L2 cache or Intel® Mobile Celeron® 
processor with 256 KB L2 cache 64-bit memory bus
T64-bit memory bus
TCD, DVD or DVD/CD-RW combo drive.
TBuilt-in floppy diskette drive
THigh-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk
THigh-capacity battery pack
TAdvanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) power management system
Multimedia
T16-bit...