Chapter 2 Display Controls

User Controls

A brief description and the location of all LCD Monitor function controls and indicators:

Figure 2-1

1DC Power Switch Press the power switch to switch the monitor ON/OFF.

 

DC Power-On

LED lights Green color --- Power is ON.

2

LED lights Yellow --- Monitor is in "Power Saving Mode".

Indicator

 

LED is off --- Power is OFF.

 

 

3

Function Select

Press either left or right control button for OSD (On Screen Display)

Buttons

menu selection.

 

4

Adjustment Control

Press the left button to decrease the OSD setting and press the right

Buttons

button to increase the OSD setting.

 

Adjusting the Monitor's Display

The monitor has four function control buttons to select among functions shown on OSD menu, designed for easy user-viewing environments.

OSD Function Menu

To access OSD Main menu, simply press one of the Function Select control buttons, and the menu diagram will pop up on the screen as shown on Fig. 2-2:

Continue pressing the Function Select buttons to scroll through the entire menu items ,then press Adjustment Control buttons to adjust content of selected item.

Figure 2-2

Attention

Firmware revision may have been updated into a latest version while the version number shown on all OSD menus in this manual will stay as Ver. 1.00.

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