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....like so. Now let's
reboot and check out
the Ferrari 4000's
BIOS.
The Acer Ferrari 4000
uses the ever-popular
and widely-used
Phoenix BIOS. This is
the Information
Screen which gives a
peek at what's under
the Ferrari 4000's
impressive hood.
This is the Main
Screen where you can
configure basic
system settings:
Quiet Boot
determines whether
you see the cool
Ferrari splash screen
on boot-up or the
more pedestrian text-
based BIOS and
system startup info.
You can tell the
Ferrari 4000 to
automatically detect
and use a second
external display if
detected on power-
up, or force it to look
for and use both the
laptop's LCD and
external display for
those fussy external
display devices that
need a little coaxing.
You can activate the
Ferrari 4000's Gigabit
Ethernet NIC's ability
to boot from a
network here.
The engine beneath the
Acer Ferrari 4000’s
hood is a fast and energy-efficient 2.0
GHz AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 Processor with a 1GB cache,
mounted in a Socket 754 motherboard powered by the new
ATI Radeon
®
Xpress
200P
chipset, with 1GB of Single-Channel DDR 333 RAM upgradeable to 2 GB. Mass
storage is provided by a
Seagate Momentus ST9100823A
Ultra/ATA 1000 5400 RPM
100MB IDE hard drive with an 8MB buffer and 12.5ms access time.
Included with the
Ferrari 4000
is a Bluetooth rechargeable wireless mouse. Powered
by two rechargeable AA batteries, the full-sized scroll wheel mouse is color-
coordinated to match the notebook with the Ferrari’s glossy Rosso Corsa finish, black
rubberized “Soft-Touch” side grips, and an ambidextrous design. With the included
USB charger cord, it takes approximately five hours to fully charge the mouse, and
the charge lasts about a week and a half under normal use.
Enabling this will
bring up a menu of
options that will let
you choose which
device in the Acer
Ferrari 4000 to boot
from.
D2D is the Disk-to-
Disk Backup and
Recovery system,
which can be
accessed by hitting
<Alt><F10> while
the laptop is booting.
The LCD Auto Dim
automatically lowers
the brightness on the
LCD display to
conserve power when
the laptop is operated
on battery; then
With the exception of
the Infrared Port,
both the Serial port A:
and Parallel port
entries are useless,
as the Ferrari 4000
has neither.
Adding, changing, or
clearing system
passwords is done
here, at the Security
Screen. Here, the
Supervisor Password
controls access to the
