Acer Travelmate 330 Service Guide

Travel Mate 330
Service Guide
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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.
NOTEGives bits and pieces of additional informa-
tion related to the current topic.
WA R N I N GAler ts you to any damage that might result 
from doing or not doing specific actions.
CAUTIONGives precautionary measures to avoid pos-
sible 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 fol-
lowing 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 competitive-
ness, 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...

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6 Table of Contents
Chapter 1 System Introductions
Basic Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
Indicators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
Keyboard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
Special Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
Keyboard Ergonomics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
Touchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
Touchpad Basics  . . . . ....

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Chapter 3 Removal and Replacement
General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Before You Begin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Disassembly Procedure Flowchart  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Removing the Battery Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Removing the Hard Disk Drive  . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Disassembling the Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . 68
Disassembling the Middle Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Removing the LCD Module . . ....

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Chapter 6 FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) List
Appendix A Model Number and Configurations
Appendix B Test Compatible Components List
Appendix C Online Support Information
Table of Contents 

Chapter 1 9
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its 
many features:
Performance

Intel Pentium® II Dixon 300/333/366 processor

64-bit main memory and L2 cache memory

Large and vibrant Thin-Film-Transistor (TFT) SVGA  Liquid Crystal 
Display (LCD)

64-bit PCI/AGP graphics acceleration with 2.5MB  graphics memory

High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE removable hard disk

External EasyLink™ Drive (floppy drive + CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive 
“combo”)

Lithium-Ion battery pack...

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Expansion

CardBus PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) slot (one type II) with Zoomed 
Video (ZV) support

Upgradeable memory and hard disk
Display
The large graphics display offers excellent viewing, display quality and 
desktop performance graphics.  The computer supports a Thin-Film 
Transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) displaying 32-bit true-color at 
800x600 Super Video Graphics Array (SVGA) resolution.
Video Performance
PCI local bus video with 64-bit graphics acceleration...