Acer Travelmate 290 Service Guide

Acer TravelMate 290 Series
Service Guide
  PART NO.: VD.T26V5.001 
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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on TravelMate 430 service guide.
DateChapterUpdates 

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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 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  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Board Layout   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Top View  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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External Diskette Drive Check   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
External CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive Check   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Keyboard or Auxiliary Input Device Check   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Memory Check   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Power System Check  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
TIntel® Pentium M processor at 1.3 ~ 1.7 GHz or higher
TIntel 855GM + Intel ICH4-M
TPC2100 DDR SDRAM, Maximum memory up to 2GB (with two 1024MB SO-DIMM when 
available)
TInternal removable optical drive (AcerMedia bay)
THigh-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk
TLi-Ion main battery pack
TPower management system with ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface)
Display
TThin-Film...

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TOne RJ-11 modem jack
TOne RJ-45 network jack 
TOne DC-in jack for AC adapter
TOne ECP/EPP-compliant parallel port
TOne external monitor port
TOne headphone/speaker/line-out jack (3.5mm mini jack)
TOne microphone/line-in jack (3.5mm mini jack)
TOne S-video-out (NTSC/PAL) port
TThree Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports
TOne IEEE 1394 port