Acer Travelmate 740 Service Guide

TravelMate 740
Service Guide
  PART NO.:  49.42R01.001
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Revision History
Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Travelmate 740 service guide.
Date Chapter Updates 

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Copyright
Copyright  ©  2001  by Acer  I n co rp ora ted.   A ll   r ig hts  r ese rv ed.    No pa rt of  th is  pub lic a tion  m ay be  rep ro duce d, 
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...

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

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Removing the DC-DC Charger Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Removing the System Board   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Removing the Audio Jack Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing the PCMCIA Socket  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing the Modem Power Cable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Chapter 11
Features
This computer was designed with the user in mind.  Here are just a few of its many features:
Performance
!Intel® Mobile Pentium® III Coppermine processor with 512 KB L2 cache and Intel® SpeedStepTM 
technology support
!64-bit memory bus 
!AcerMedia bay (removable CD or DVD drive)
!Built-in floppy drive
!High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk
!Li-Ion main battery pack
!Power management system with ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface)
Display
!15” Thin-Film Transistor (TFT)...

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Expansion
!Two type II or one type III CardBus PC Card slot(s) with Zoomed Video support on upper slot
!Upgradeable memory
!DockMate V
Keyboard and Pointing Device
!84-/85-key Windows keyboard
!Ergonomically-centered touchpad pointing device with scroll function
I/O Ports
!One fingerprint recognition sensor
!Two type II or one type III CardBus PC Card slot(s) with Zoomed Video support on upper slot
!One RJ-45 jack for Ethernet
!One RJ-11 phone jack
!One DC-in jack (AC adapter)
!One parallel...