Acer Aspire T650A User manual

Aspire T650A

User’s Guide

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Aspire T650A

User’s Guide

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Contents

System Tour 1

Front panel 1

Rear Panel 3

System Features 4

Performance 4

Multimedia 4

Connectivity 4

System peripherals 5

Mouse (PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option) 5

Keyboard (PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option) 5

Speakers 6

System upgrade 7

Opening the computer 7

Setting up new components 7

Acer eRecovery 8

Create backup 8

Restore from backup 9

Create factory default image CD 9

Re-install bundled software without CD 9

Change password 10

Acer disc-to-disc recovery 11

Restore without a Recovery CD 11

Multilingual operating system installation 11

Setting up your computer 13

Before commencing setup 13

Selecting location 13

Opening the package 13

Connecting the peripherals 14

Starting your computer 14

Shutting down your computer 14

Troubleshooting 15

Taking Care of your computer 17

Important tips 17

Cleaning and servicing 17

To clean your computer and keyboard 17

To clean your pointing device 18

To clean your optical mouse 18

To clean your monitor 18

When to contact a service technician 18

Asking for technical assistance 18

Energy Star Guidelines Compliance 19

Declaration of Conformity for EU countries 19

Modem notices 19

TBR 21 19

Important safety instructions 19

Lithium battery statement 21

Laser compliance statement 21

Declaration of conformity for CE marking 22

Federal Communications Comission

Declaration of Conformity 24

Appendix A: Environmental Policy Declaration

Remark: All the drawings in the Guide are diagrams. About

components’s quantity and style, substances shall take precedence.

English

System Tour

Your computer’s front panel consists of the following:

Front panel

No. Description No. Description

1 Optical drive (optional) 2 Floppy drive (optional)

3 Card reader (optional) 4 Power button

5 Microphone jack 6 Speaker or headphone jack

7USBports

English

Note: The specifications above are for reference only. The exact

configuration of your PC depends on the model purchased.

No. Description No. Description

1 Optical drive (optional) 2 Floppy drive (optional)

3 Power button 4 Speaker or headphone jack

5 Microphone jack 6 USB ports

English

Rear Panel

No. Description No. Description

1 Power cord socket 2 Voltage selector switch

3 Fan aperture 4 PS/2 keyboard connector

5 PS/2 mouse connector 6 Serial port

7 Printer connector 8 Monitor connector

9 USB 2.0 ports 10 RJ-45 Ethernet connector

11 Microphone jack 12 Line-out jack

13 Line-in jack 14 Extension card slots

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System Features

Your computer features:

Performance

• Intel® Pentium® 4 Socket LGA775 CPU

• System Memory DDRII 400/533 DIMM, 4 DDR DIMM Slots,

expandable to 4GB

• Power management functions

• 3.5 inch floppy drive / card reader (optional)

• CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW (52X/24X), DVD/CD-RW combo or

DVD writer (optional)

• High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE drive / SATA

• Support for USB 2.0 high performance peripherals

Multimedia

• 3D quality audio system via onboard audio controller

• Audio-in/line-in, audio-out/line-out, headphone out and external

microphone in jacks

Note: the system has two microphone-in Jacks (front and rear)

Connectivity

• Two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse

• One parallel port

• One serial port

• One VGA port

• 6 USB 2.0 ports (two on the front, four on the rear panel and two

reserved )

• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet network

• Speaker out (front, rear)

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System peripherals

The Aspire T650A computer consists of the system itself, and system

peripherals, like a mouse, a keyboard and a set of speakers (optional).

This section provides a brief description of the basic system peripherals.

Mouse (PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option)

The included mouse is a standard two-button wheel mouse. Connect

the mouse to the PS/2 mouse port or USB port on the back panel of the

system.

Keyboard (PS/2 or USB, manufacturing option)

Connect the keyboard to the PS/2 keyboard port or USB port on the

back panel of the system.

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Speakers

For systems bundled with speakers, before powering on the system,

connect the speaker cable to the audio out (external speaker) port on

the back panel of the system.

For more detailed information about the speakers, please refer to the

included operating instructions.

Note: speakers are optional and the appearance might be

different depending on the actual product.

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