Qosmio F50 Series

Front operation panel

This section describes the buttons of the front operation panel in Windows mode.

Only touch the buttons with your fingers. Do not press the buttons too strongly, or use a ballpoint pen or any other pointed object to touch the buttons. Doing so may damage the panels.

Nine buttons are available for use: CD/DVD, Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next, Mute, Illumination On/Off, Camera, DOLBY.

These buttons allow you to manage Audio/Video functions, run applications and access utilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 8-1 Front operation panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD/DVD button

Touching this button will launch an application

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

program that allows you to watch a DVD or listen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to a CD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touching this button while the computer is on or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in Sleep Mode, will launch Media Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Music is started when a music CD is inserted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the optical disc drive and My Video is started

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when a DVD video is in the drive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the application you wish to run is not selected

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as the active window when these buttons are

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

touched, please switch to the application

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

manually. For example, by clicking the taskbar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

item for the application window you wish to make

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

active.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Play/Pause button

This button allows you to play/pause chapters or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STOP button

Touch this button to stop playing a track or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chapter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous button

Touch this button to move to the previous audio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

track, DVD chapter or recorded data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next button

Touch this button to move to the next audio track,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DVD chapter or recorded data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mute button

Touching this button turns the sound on and off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Illumination On/Off

Touch this button to switch the lighting of

 

 

 

 

 

 

button

indicators (e.g. Front operation panel, power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

button, volume dial, etc).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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User’s Manual