CHAPTER 1: Using Your Gateway Flat-Panel Monitor
Using the main menu
To use the main menu:
1Press the lit button on the front of your monitor. The rest of the button icons light up and the shortcut menu opens.
2Press (Main Menu). The main menu opens.
Tip
While the OSD is active, onscreen labels appear next to the buttons to help you identify them.
3Press the (Previous or Next) buttons to highlight a setting, then press (Select) to open the selected menu or setting.
4Press (Back) to return to a previous menu.
5When you have finished making all adjustments, press (Menu Off) to exit.
OSD Menu | Description |
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Main menu | Auto—Automatically adjusts your monitor to its optimum settings (VGA input only). |
| Picture—Opens the Picture menu, where you can adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma. |
| Video Adjust—Opens the Video Adjust menu, where you can adjust the Sharpness and Video Scaling. |
| Geometry—Opens the Geometry menu, where you can adjust image position and minimize distortions |
| (VGA input only). |
| Audio—Opens the Audio menu, where you can adjust audio volume. |
| Advanced—Opens the Advanced menu, where you can adjust color balance, change the OSD language, |
| and display information about current monitor settings. |
| Reset—Resets the monitor to its factory settings for the currently displayed input. |
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Picture menu | Brightness—Adjusts the amount of light in the darkest portion of the picture. Use the lowest brightness |
| setting you are comfortable with to maximize the life of the monitor backlights. You may need to readjust |
| brightness after the monitor warms up. |
| Contrast—Adjusts the level of white between the lightest and darkest portions of an image. |
| Gamma—Customizes the gamma level. High gamma levels increase white levels and low gamma levels |
| increase contrast. |
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Video Adjust menu | Sharpness—Adjusts sharpness for video images. |
| Video Scaling—Sets video aspect ratios and scaling between Full and Aspect modes. |
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Geometry menu | H Position—Moves the display image left and right. You can also press the Auto button to configure the |
| vertical and horizontal position automatically. |
| V Position—Moves the display image up and down. You can also press the Auto button to configure the |
| vertical and horizontal position automatically. |
| Clock—Minimizes any vertical bars or stripes visible on the screen background. The horizontal screen size |
| will also change. |
| Phase—Minimizes any horizontal distortion and clears or sharpens the displayed characters. |
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