Qosmio G50

Front operation panel

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

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

Nine panels are available for use:

CD/DVD, Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next, MuteOn/Off, Illumination On/Off, Camera, DOLBY.

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

 

Figure 8-1 Front operation panel

 

 

CD/DVD panel

Touching this panel will launch an application

 

program that allows you to watch a DVD or listen

 

to a CD.

 

Touching this panel 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 panels 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 panel

This panel allows you to play/pause chapters or

 

tracks.

 

 

STOP panel

Touch this panel to stop playing a track or

 

chapter.

 

 

Previous panel

Touch this panel to move to the previous audio

 

track, DVD chapter or recorded data.

 

 

Next panel

Touch this panel to move to the next audio track,

 

DVD chapter or recorded data.

 

 

Mute On/Off panel

Turns your computer sound on/off.

 

 

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