Acer 2100 - User Manual

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Document
  • Page 3 – Join Us to Fight Against Piracy
  • Page 4 – Acer Year 2000 Compliance Statement; For more details, check the; DMI 2.0 Compliance Statement
  • Page 5 – IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS; Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the product.
  • Page 6 – When the power cord or plug is damaged or frayed
  • Page 8 – FCC Class B Radio Frequency; Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
  • Page 9 – C D - R O M S a f e t y W a r n i n g; DANGER; INVISIBLE RADIATION WHEN OPEN.; C a u t i o n o n L i t h i u m B a t t e r i e s; CAUTION; the manufacturer’s instructions.
  • Page 10 – T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s; Introduction
  • Page 11 – Chapter 3 BIOS Utility
  • Page 12 – Chapter 4 Installing Optional Components
  • Page 13 – List of Figures
  • Page 14 – List of Tables
  • Page 15 – Conventions; The following conventions are used in this manual:; NOTE
  • Page 16 – making it perfect for small offices or general business use.; Overview
  • Page 19 – Chapter 1 Getting Started; Preinstallation; Selecting a Site
  • Page 20 – Features; Front Panel; Figure 1-1 shows the system unit front panel.; Figure 1-1 Front Panel
  • Page 21 – Rear Panel; Figure 1-2 shows the system unit rear panel.; Figure 1-2 Rear Panel
  • Page 22 – Connecting System Components; Connecting the Keyboard; Figure 1-3 Connecting the Keyboard
  • Page 23 – Connecting the Monitor; Figure 1-4 Connecting the Monitor
  • Page 24 – Connecting the Mouse; Plug the mouse cable into the mouse connector on the rear panel.
  • Page 25 – Figure 1-6 Connecting the Parallel Printer
  • Page 26 – Complete System Connections; Figure 1-7 Complete System Connections
  • Page 27 – Connecting Multimedia Components (Optional); Figure 1-8 Connecting Multimedia Components
  • Page 28 – Connecting to the Network; Figure 1-9 Connecting to the Network
  • Page 30 – on
  • Page 31 – Turning On Your Computer; Press the power button located on the front of the system unit.; Turning Off Your Computer; Unplug the system if you are going to do any of the following:
  • Page 32 – Troubleshooting; General Failure; Are all cables securely plugged in?; Front Panel Light Doesn't Work
  • Page 33 – Keyboard is Dead; Is the printer power turned on?; Add-on Card Fails Intermittently; Do two add-on cards have conflicting addresses?; If You Receive an Error Message
  • Page 34 – Error Messages; There are two general types of error messages:; Software Error Messages
  • Page 35 – System Error Messages
  • Page 37 – Correcting Error Conditions; Here are some corrective measures for error conditions:
  • Page 39 – Chapter 2 System Board; Details about the system board layout
  • Page 40 – Major Components
  • Page 42 – Layout; Figure 2-1 System Board Layout
  • Page 43 – Jumpers and Connectors; Jumper and Connector Locations; Figure 2-2 shows the jumper and connector locations.
  • Page 44 – The following table lists the possible jumper settings:
  • Page 45 – Onboard Connectors
  • Page 46 – IDE Hard Disk Support; IDE Hard Disk Configuration; Video Function
  • Page 47 – Supported Video Resolutions
  • Page 49 – Audio Function; Mono microphone port; USB
  • Page 50 – LAN Function; management software that supports remote wake-up capability.; Hardware Monitoring Function
  • Page 51 – Modem Ring-in Function
  • Page 53 – Chapter 3 BIOS Utility
  • Page 54 – Entering Setup; To enter Setup, press the key combination; Setup Utility; Advanced Level, press
  • Page 55 – The
  • Page 56 – Processor
  • Page 57 – Processor Speed
  • Page 58 – IDE Primary Channel Master
  • Page 59 – st Bank; nd Bank; None; Product Information
  • Page 60 – Product Name; This parameter specifies the official name of your system.; Main Board ID; This parameter specifies your system board’s serial number.; System BIOS Version
  • Page 61 – The following screen shows the Disk Drives menu:; Floppy Drives; or
  • Page 62 – Follow the same procedure to configure floppy drive B. Choose; if you do not have a; IDE Drives
  • Page 63 – Type; Auto; . If you know your hard disk; Cylinders
  • Page 64 – Sectors; This parameter specifies the size of your hard disk, in MB.; Hard Disk Size > 504 MB; Hard Disk Block Mode; This parameter appears only when you are in the Advanced Level.; Advanced PIO Mode; When set to
  • Page 65 – CD-ROM Drive DMA Mode; Enabled
  • Page 66 – Serial Port 1; This parameter allows you to enable or disable serial port 1.; Base Address; and
  • Page 67 – Parallel Port; This parameter allows you to enable or disable the parallel port.
  • Page 68 – Operation Mode; Parallel Port Operation Mode Settings
  • Page 69 – ECP DMA Channel; Extended Capabilities; Floppy Disk Controller; Primary
  • Page 70 – PS/2 Mouse Controller; Disabled; to deactivate the USB keyboard function in DOS environment. This; Onboard Audio Chip; Power Management
  • Page 71 – Power Management Mode; , you can configure the IDE hard disk and system timers. Setting it to; deactivates the power-management feature and its timers.; IDE Hard Disk Standby Timer; Off; if your hard disk does not support this function.; System Sleep Timer
  • Page 72 – Sleep Mode; Standby; Suspend; Schedule Resume from Suspend; Resume Time
  • Page 73 – Modem Ring Indicator; When
  • Page 74 – Boot Sequence
  • Page 76 – Date
  • Page 77 – System Security
  • Page 78 – Setup Password; Setting a Password; Make sure that switch no. 2 of SW1 is set to Off
  • Page 79 – Yes
  • Page 80 – Changing or Removing the Setup Password; Bypassing the Setup Password
  • Page 81 – to the previous section for the procedure.; Normal; , the password prompt appears before system boot. When set to; Keyboard; any keyboard or mouse input until you enter the correct password.
  • Page 82 – The following screen shows the Advanced Options parameters:
  • Page 83 – This menu lets you configure the system memory.
  • Page 84 – External Cache; This parameter enables or disables the secondary cache memory.; Cache Scheme; This parameter display the cache scheme in; Memory at 15MB-16MB Reserved For
  • Page 85 – PCI IRQ Setting; Select
  • Page 86 – PCI Slots; When you set the PCI IRQ Setting parameter to; installed in your system.; PCI IRQ Sharing; Setting this parameter to; allows you to assign the same IRQ to two different devices.; VGA Palette Snoop
  • Page 87 – Plug and Play OS; When this parameter is set to; , BIOS initializes only PnP boot devices such as SCSI; only if your operating; Reset Resource Assignments; Set this parameter to; to avoid IRQ conflict when installing non-PnP or PnP ISA
  • Page 88 – Load Default Settings; Abort Settings Change
  • Page 89 – Exiting Setup
  • Page 91 – Installation Precautions; ESD Precautions
  • Page 92 – Pre-installation Instructions
  • Page 93 – Post-installation Instructions; Observe the following after installing a system component:
  • Page 94 – Removing and Replacing the Housing; Removing the Housing Cover; Turn off power to the system unit and unplug all cables.
  • Page 95 – Pull the housing cover upward and remove it from the chassis.
  • Page 96 – Replacing the Housing Cover; Replace the housing cover as shown in Figure 4-4.
  • Page 97 – Disassembling and Reassembling the; To disassemble the system:; Figure 4-6 Detaching the Metal Cover
  • Page 98 – Diskette Drives; To reassemble the system:
  • Page 99 – Replacing the Hard Disk Drive; Figure 4-8 Removing the Hard Disk Drive
  • Page 100 – Figure 4-9 Removing a Hard Disk Drive from the Bracket
  • Page 101 – Figure 4-11 Attaching a Hard Disk Drive to the Bracket; Installing and Removing Expansion; Installing a PCI Card
  • Page 102 – Secure the card to the housing with a screw.
  • Page 103 – Installing Additional Memory; Table 4-1 lists possible memory configurations.
  • Page 104 – Installing a DIMM; Open the clips on the socket.
  • Page 105 – Removing a DIMM; Gently pull the DIMM out of the socket.; Reconfiguring the System; Upgrading the CPU
  • Page 106 – Removing the Pentium II CPU; Follow these steps to remove the Pentium II CPU:
  • Page 107 – Figure 4-16 Pressing the Latches and Detaching the CPU; Installing a Pentium II CPU
  • Page 108 – Follow these steps to install a Pentium II CPU:
  • Page 109 – Figure 4-19 Installing the Pentium II CPU; Installing the Celeron CPU; Follow these steps to install a Celeron processor:
  • Page 110 – Remove the Celeron processor from its protective packaging.
  • Page 111 – Snap both the retention clips into place.
  • Page 113 – Index
  • Page 114 – parallel port
  • Page 115 – serial port
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Page 2 - Document

AcerPower 2100 User’s Guide ii Document EDITION PART NUMBER DATE History First Edition May 1998 CopyrightNotice Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998 by Acer America Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or tra...

Page 3 - Join Us to Fight Against Piracy

iii Warranty/Limitation of Liability Any software described in this manual is licensed "as is" and Acer and its suppliers disclaim any and all warranties,express or implied, including but not limited to any warranty of non-infringement of third party rights, merchantabilityor fitness for a p...

Page 4 - Acer Year 2000 Compliance Statement; For more details, check the; DMI 2.0 Compliance Statement

AcerPower 2100 User’s Guide iv Acer Year 2000 Compliance Statement This product, AcerPower 2100, is Year 2000-compliant and carries the "NSTL HardwareTested Year 2000 Compliant" logo. This product has been tested both by Acer's internaltest labs and NSTL using NSTL's YMARK2000 certification ...

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