Hardware Specifications and Configurations

System Board Major Chips

Item

Controller

 

 

System core logic

VIA K8N800+VIA VT8235CE

 

 

Super I/O controller

NS PC87392

 

 

Audio controller

VIA VT1612A

 

 

Video controller

NVIDIA® GeForceTM FX Go5200 for Aspire 1360 Series

 

NVIDIA® GeForceTM FX Go5700 for Aspire 1520 Series

Hard disk drive controller

Embedded in VT8235CE

 

 

Keyboard controller

Mitsubish LPC keyboard controller M38857

 

 

CardBus Controller

TI PCI 7420

 

 

RTC

Embedded in VT8235CE

 

 

LAN Controller/Chipset

10/100: VIA 6103L; Giga LAN: Realtek 8110SB-32

 

 

Memory Controller

VIA K8N800

 

 

Bluetooth Controller/Chipset (Does this

 

chipset support voice function??)

 

 

 

Modem Controller/Chipset

 

 

 

HDD Controller

Embedded in VT8235CE

 

 

ODD Controller

Embedded in VT8235CE

 

 

Parallel Port Controller

NS PC87392

 

 

USB Controller

Embedded in VT8235CE

 

 

PCMCIA Controller

TI PCI 7420

 

 

Processor

Item

Specification

 

 

CPU type

Mobile AMD Sempron processor 2600+ to 3000+ or higher (for Aspire 1360)

 

AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ to 3400+ or higher (for Aspire 1520)

 

 

CPU package uOG

uOG 754 pin

 

 

CPU core voltage

1.5V

 

 

CPU I/O voltage

High speed: 1.2V => for RAM 2.5V

 

Low speed: 1.2V =>for Hypertransport 1.2V

 

 

BIOS

Item

Specification

 

 

BIOS vendor

Phoenix BIOS

 

 

BIOS Version

1.0

 

 

BIOS ROM type

Flash ROM

 

 

BIOS ROM size

512KB

 

 

BIOS package

32 Pin PLCC

 

 

Supported protocols

ACPI 2.0, SMBIOS 2.3, PCI 2.3, Boot Block, PXE 2.0, Mobile PC2001,

 

Hard Disk Password, INT 13h Extensions, PCI Bus Power Management

 

interface Specification, EI Torito-Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification

 

V1.0, Simple Boot Flag 1.0

 

 

BIOS password control

Set by switch, see SW1 settings on chapter 5

 

 

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Acer 1520 manual Hardware Specifications and Configurations, System Board Major Chips, Processor, Controller

1520 specifications

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