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Chapter 1: System introduction
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Front panel
The ASUS Essentio ES5000/ES5000-P Desktop PC includes an ASUS
motherboard, a power supply unit, a front panel, and a rear panel. All of these
components are integrated in a system casing elaborately designed by ASUS.
The illustrations below show the front panel and the components on it.
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1. Slot-in optical disk drive (ODD).
Insert an optical disk into the slot with the
label side facing your left.
2. Optical disk eject button
.
Press this button to eject an optical disk.
3. Front panel cover
.
Pull outward to open the front panel cover. Inside
are two USB .0 ports, one E-SATA port, one Microphone port, and one
Headphone port.
4. Network LED
.
This LED lights up when a wireless/wired network
connection is established on the system.
5. Hard disk drive (HDD) LED
.
This LED lights up when data is being read
from or written to the hard disk drive.
6. Power button
.
Press this button to turn the system on.
7. USB 2.0 ports
2.0.
These Universal Serial Bus .0 (USB .0) ports are
available for connecting USB .0 devices such as a mouse, printer, scanner,
camera, PDA, and others.
8. E-SATA port
E-SATA
.
This port connects an external Serial ATA hard disk
drive.
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