5.1 Basic Bay Cat X Troubleshooting Steps
The Bay Cat X is very simple to troubleshoot because there is very little that can malfunction
Troubleshooting Checklist
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Screen is black | No power | Check power cord. Check power switch | ||
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| Backlights not lit. | On the remote, press ON |
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| Image being displayed is | On the remote, press SOURCE. |
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Screen is a solid | Unit is displaying a test pattern | Turn off the test pattern. See “To turn off a Test Pattern” on page 70. | ||
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Unit is displaying a custom | On the remote, press CURTAIN |
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Picture is visible, | Image is rotated | Check your source. The Bay Cat X has no way of rotating images. | ||
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Picture has a black edge | Picture is not positioned cor- | Use the Picture Position menu | ||
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| Picture has a black or colored | The source has a black edge |
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| Wall Mode turned on and the | Check the Aspect Ratio and | ||
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| picture is not the same aspect | Wall menu (see “Aspect Ratio | |
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| ratio as the wall. The edge color | and Scale Mode” on page 32) | |
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| Picture is too large or too small | This could be a zoom adjust- | Check the two Zoom menus | |
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| ment, particularly if you are | and set them both so you | |
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| using Clarity’s Big Picture™ | see a zero on all four sides. | |
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| port menus and see that | |
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| they read zero on all four | |
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| Picture is noisy | Cable from source is poor quality | Use a different cable | |
| Picture has horizontal or verti- | or too long |
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| Poorly adjusted Phase and/or | Only analog computer signals | ||
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| Frequency | may need this adjusted. This | |
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| pressing SETUP on the remote. | |
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| Colors are wrong | Input Levels must be adjusted | For analog computer sources, | |
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| see “Adjusting Levels for Ana- | |
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| log Computer Sources” on | |
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| page 28. For digital computer | |
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| sources, see “Adjusting Levels | |
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| for Digital Computer Sources” | |
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