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Table of Contents
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System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Product Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Onboard Peripherals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Onboard Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Boot Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Changing or Removing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bypassing the Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Memory/Cache Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
PnP/PCI Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Load Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Abort Settings Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Exiting Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Chapter 4 Upgrading the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ESD Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Preinstallation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Post-installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Removing the Housing Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Replacing the Housing Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Removing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Reconfiguring the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Upgrading the CPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Removing the Pentium II CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing a Pentium II CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Replacing the Hard Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing and Removing Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installing an AGP Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Index
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Summary of Contents for AcerPower SN
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Page 10: ...Notices x APSNUG book Page x Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
Page 11: ... Chapter 1 APSNUG book Page 1 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
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Page 23: ...13 Turning On Your Computer 3 5 3 APSNUG book Page 13 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
Page 32: ...Chapter 1 Getting Started 22 APSNUG book Page 22 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
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Page 47: ...37 Wake on LAN 3 5 5 3 5 B 5 3 CH D 5 B APSNUG book Page 37 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
Page 48: ...Chapter 2 System Board Information 38 APSNUG book Page 38 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
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Page 86: ...Chapter 3 BIOS Information 76 APSNUG book Page 76 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
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Page 101: ...91 Installing the Retention Mechanism 4 3 3 APSNUG book Page 91 Tuesday May 4 1999 11 13 AM ...
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