User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Notices
- Safety information
- General precautions
- About this guide
- System package contents
- Chapter 1: System introduction
- Chapter 2: Getting started

1-1ASUS Essentio ES5100/ES5100-P
1.1 Front panel
The ASUS Essentio ES5100/ES5100-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. Optical disk drive (ODD) eject button. Press this button to eject the optical
disk drive.
2. Front panel cover
. Pull outward to open the front panel cover. Inside
are two USB 2.0 ports, one eSATA port, one Microphone port, and one
Headphone port.
3. Network LED
. This LED lights up when a wireless/wired network
connection is established on the system.
4. Hard disk drive (HDD) LED
. This LED lights up when data is being read
from or written to the hard disk drive.
5. Power button
. Press this button to turn the system on.
6. USB 2.0 ports
2.0
. These Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB 2.0) ports are
available for connecting USB 2.0 devices such as a mouse, printer, scanner,
camera, PDA, and others.
7. eSATA port
E-SATA
. This port connects an external Serial ATA hard disk
drive.