HP Color Display A7217A Specifications, Troubleshooting, Technical Features, Customizing Your Monitor, Step 1:, Step 2:, Step 3:

Table of Contents

Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Identifying parts and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Step 1:Connect your monitor to your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Step 2:Connect the power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Step 3:Turn on the monitor and computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Connecting Universal Serial Bus (USB) compliant peripherals . . . 8

Selecting the on-screen menu language (LANG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Selecting the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Automatically sizing and centering the picture (AUTO) . . . . . . . . . 9

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Customizing Your Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Navigating the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Adjusting the brightness and contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Adjusting the centering of the picture (CENTER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Adjusting the size of the picture (SIZE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Enlarging or reducing the picture (ZOOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Adjusting the shape of the picture (GEOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 GB Adjusting the color of the picture (COLOR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Adjusting the quality of the picture (SCREEN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Adjusting the convergence (CONV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Additional settings (OPTION) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Resetting the adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Technical Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Preset and user modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Power saving function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

If thin lines appear on your screen (damper wires). . . . . . . . . . . . 17 On-screen messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Trouble symptoms and remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Self-diagnosis function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Preset mode timing table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i TCO’99 Eco-document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i HP General Hardware Warranty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

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