gateway fpd2185w tft lcd monitor manual factory

Connecting the monitor Do not connect power to the Audio power in jack for any device but Caution the Gateway speaker bar accessory. Audio power in jack Connect the blue VGA video cable to the blue video connector under the back of the display.

Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor Make sure that your computer is turned off, then connect the other end of the video cable to the matching video port on the back of your computer. Connect video inputs (such as from a DVD player, video camera, or receiver) to the appropriate video jacks on the back of the monitor.

To avoid injury, always lift the monitor so that the stand adjusts to its full height before moving the monitor or turning it around. www.gateway.com...

Connect any USB device to one of the available USB 2.0 ports on the side or back of the monitor. USB ports Use the USB 2.0 ports on the side of the monitor for connecting USB Tips & Tricks devices that are frequently disconnected, such as camera interface cables, flash drives, and USB hard drives. www.gateway.com...

Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor Input ■ OSD active: Press to move to previous menu. OSD inactive: Press to select the video source. Auto ■ OSD active: Press to select a menu or setting. OSD inactive: Press to automatically optimize the monitor’s image position, clock, and phase.

Cross Color Reduction —Reduces cross-color artifacts, such as unintentional flashing colors or rainbow patterns, that result from composite video signals. MADI —Motion-Adaptive De-Interlacing ensures a more static (flicker-free) display image for image sections not containing moving elements, and ensures smoother edges for moving elements. www.gateway.com...

Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor OSD Menu Description H-Position—Moves the display image left and right. Geometry menu V-Position—Moves the display image up and down. You can also press the Auto button to configure the vertical and horizontal position automatically.

Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor To change the color depth: Right-click a blank area of your desktop, then click . The Display Properties Properties dialog box opens. Click the tab. Settings Click the arrow button to open the list, then click the color depth you Color quality want.

Clarifying screen fonts You can change the display fonts to ClearType for smoother screen fonts. To change the display fonts to ClearType: Right-click a blank area of your desktop, then click . The Display Properties Properties dialog box opens. www.gateway.com...

Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor Click the tab. Appearance Click the button. The Effects dialog box opens. Effects Click to select the check Use the following method to smooth the edges of screen type box, click the arrow to open the list, then click...

19.47 × 13.74 × 2.77 inches (49.4 × 34.9 × 7.0 cm) VESA wall mount bracket: 3.94 × 3.94 inches (100 mm × 100 mm) Operating: 32~122°F (0~50°C) Temperature Storage: -13~140°F (-25~60°C) Operating: 20~90% RH Humidity Storage: 5~90% RH 10,000 feet (3,048 m) Altitude Kensington lock slot Security www.gateway.com...

Do not expose the monitor to rain or use near water. If the monitor does get exposed to moisture, unplug it and allow it to dry for 24 hours. Call Gateway Customer Care for advice on whether the monitor is safe to turn back on.

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Please keep the item in its original condition, with original accessories like chargers, headsets etc., brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual in manufacturer packaging to avoid pickup cancellation.

10 Days Returnable This item is eligible for free replacement/refund, within 10 days of delivery, in an unlikely event of damaged, defective or different/wrong item delivered to you. Note: Please keep the item in its original condition, with MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, and original accessories in manufacturer packaging.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, CDs and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up. Before returning a Tablet, the device should be formatted and screen lock should be disabled.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, CDs and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, CDs and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

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Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, CDs and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Note: Please keep the item in its original condition, with MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, original packaging, with user manual, warranty cards, and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with outer box or case, user manual, warranty cards, and other accompaniments in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with outer box or case, user manual, warranty cards, and other accompaniments in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Note: Please keep the item in its original condition, with outer box or case, user manual, warranty cards, and other accompaniments in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up. We may contact you to ascertain the damage or defect in the product prior to issuing refund/replacement.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with brand outer box, MRP tags attached, user manual, warranty cards, and original accessories in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.

Please keep the item in its original condition, with outer box or case, user manual, warranty cards, and other accompaniments in manufacturer packaging for a successful return pick-up.We may contact you to ascertain the damage or defect in the product prior to issuing refund/replacement.

Hate to burst the bubble, but it seems the site you linked has very little hands on and relies on other sites reviews to make its desicions. I would recommend anyone wanting to buy an LCD look around oin the [H] forums, plenty of users have posted their experience over time with hands on.

I can also say that there is no substitue to actually seeing the LCD in use before you buy it(if possible). Good luck to anyone looking for a new LCD!!

I yanked the power from the back, pulled the CMOS battery, put CMOS clear jumper on clear position. Shorted battery connection points. Disconnected everything but CPU and mobo power. Put CMOS back to normal, installed battery....powered on and got 3red diagnostic lights. Means it hangs on checking memory. Put memory back in, 1 red light. Was hanging on video card check. Installed video card, again 1 red light and no image on monitor. Pressed F1 which is suppose to get into BIOS or bypass it (cant remember). Red light went out and hard disk activity light started blinking. Powered off and plugged in Windows SATA boot drive. Nothing. Then I manually selected a different input on the monitor then went back to DVI. Right to the WindowsXP load screen. Then it booted windows and BSOD"s soon after.

This monitor is quite nice, not super high resolution but more than adequate for any task. It"s basically a 1600x1200 monitor with the bottom 200 pixels cut off to make it widescreen. The actual resolution is 1680x1050. I"m a programmer and the screen rotation helps when viewing long chunks of code. I still haven"t gotten the monitor to work at it"s native resolution on my laptop. It"s a driver issue, but it"s something to check into before getting this monitor. The only negative is that the monitor stopped detecting when the signal comes back from the vga input, I just have to hit the menu button to clear the dialog that shows which input is selected.

Man, was I ever stoked when I brought home my 21″ 16:10 LCD monitor. Unfortunately, that feeling didn’t last as long as I had hoped. It seems there’s several issues which hamper widescreen gaming that aren’t exactly common knowledge. Even after doing hours of research into pros and cons of having a widescreen LCD, I was met with many challenges and frustrating roadblocks that prevented me from jumping into the games I had been playing on my old 19″ CRT.

With the growing popularity of widescreen monitors and LCDs quickly taking over the monitor market share, I thought it would be a good idea to share my experiences and hopefully cut down the hours you might spend troubleshooting should you pick up a widescreen LCD.

You’ve no doubt heard the word “resolution” and understand what it is in terms of a computer monitor. For those that don’t, it’s the size that your screen is rendered at in pixels. Standard resolutions for non-widescreen monitors are 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×960, etc. The first number is the width in pixels, the second being height. With a CRT monitor, you can use pretty much any resolution and it will look fine. An LCD is different in that respect. It has a “native resolution” which is the physical amount of pixels it has to display. If you use a resolution outside of the native resolution, the monitor has to scale the image to fit the new size, which results in a blurry or fuzzy image. Definitely not optimal. For best results, always use the native resolution. This can be a bit of a problem, unless you have some heavy duty hardware as the bigger the screen size, the bigger the resolution. The native resolution for my monitor is 1680×1050 at which size I’m not able to run many games with the settings I would like. Typically, I have been running games at 1280×800.

You can probably imagine what happens when you run a resolution that is not the same aspect ratio as your monitor. Stretching. And it’s as ugly as it sounds. The image is literally stretched to fit the width of your monitor, producing less than desirable results. Unfortunately, you might have to endure this if a game doesn’t support widescreen resolutions and there’s no work around for it. Or even worse, you might not be able to play the game at all. I found that with my monitor, if the game wasn’t at a 16:10 resolution or in some cases even if there was stretching, the image becomes distorted. Little coloured boxes appear all over the place – as seen in the screenshot to the right.

The aspect ratio is the size of the horizontal dimension relative to the vertical. A standard CRT monitor or non-widescreen LCD is 4:3. Widescreen LCDs are 16:10 and widescreen televisions (LCD, plasma, just about any HDTV) are 16:9.

If your monitor is digital, you have one more variable to worry about. While using the DVI connection results in the brightest, sharpest and most vibrant image, you will once again run into problems if you don’t have the most high end hardware. Using the DVI connection means you have to run everything at the native resolution. You don’t have the option of running at lower resolutions and if you try, your game most likely won’t even start. My monitor has 5 inputs (DVI, VGA, Component, S-Video and Composite) and my videocard has dual DVI outs. I’m currently using both outputs, one with a VGA adapter which I use when playing games. The other a digital-to-digital connection which is my standard viewing mode. It’s rather unfortunate that I can’t run games using the DVI connection, but some of the more demanding games won’t run at anything more than low or medium settings at that resolution on my current rig.

Luckily for us, there is a pretty large and active community of gamers with widescreen monitors that are adamant to getting the experience they deserve. Enter Widescreen Gaming Forum. Much more than merely a forum, they have an extensive FAQ, user reviews of widescreen monitors and a master games list with solutions for getting your favourite games to run at 16:10 resolutions. I was fortunate to find this early on and it’s answered many questions I had an presented solutions for just about every game I own.

While F.E.A.R. doesn’t support an resolutions outside of the 4:3 aspect ratio, it’s very easy to customize the resolution to your needs. You have to manually edit the config file and change the resolution yourself. The FOV is adjusted automatically and HUD repositioned. Works mint and looks great!

It’s not surprising that Valve has covered all the bases here. Like COD2, HL2 supports all aspect ratios, correctly adjusts the FOV and repositions the HUD. I did notice that using a 4:3 resolution on my 16:10 monitor, the ammo count was positioned in a weird spot and cut off.

To be honest, this wasn’t my primary reason for getting a widescreen LCD. I work on the same machine I game on. I needed an LCD and the vast majority of 19″ LCDs only support 1280×1024. That resolution is simply not large enough for me. 1680×1050 that my 21″ supports is just lovely.

19 www.gateway.com Adjusting monitor settings Using Picture-in-Picture (PIP) Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is a convenient way to view video from multiple video sources at the same time. Refer to the following chart to determine which combinations of video sources can be used as a PIP display. * Only 480i component (Y Pb Pr) video can be used with VGA as a PIP. With this combina…

23 www.gateway.com Adjusting monitor settings EzTune software When installed onto your computer, EzTune™ software lets you control many of the monitor settings from your computer. With EzTune, you can: ■ Change the orientation of the image (landscape to portrait) by rotating the screen ■ Change brightness, contrast, and color balance ■ Change screen geometry ■ Set the…

Gateway FPD2185W 25 www.gateway.com Power management Power management ENERGY STAR As an ENERGY STAR ® Partner, Gateway has determined that this product meets the ENERGY STAR guidelines for energy efficiency. This monitor complies with the EPA"s International ENERGY STAR Program, which is a program designed to encourage manufacturers of computer equipment to build circuitry into their products to reduce e…

31 www.gateway.com Specifications Power consumption Normal operation: >75 W Off (power-save): 2 W Power input 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz (built-in power supply) Power management Energy Star® Certifications UL, cUL, FCC Class B, CE. VCCI and TCO’99 where applicable. Wall mount bracket VESA 4 × 3.937 inches (4 × 100 mm) Weight Net weight (with stand): 18.74 lbs. (…

8 www.gateway.com Using Your Gateway Flat Panel Monitor Connecting a security cable You can secure your monitor to your computer desk (or to another heavy object) with a cable lock. To connect a cable lock, follow the cable lock’s instructions to connect it to the Kensington lock slot on the back of your monitor. (cable lock not included) Kensington lock slot

13 www.gateway.com Adjusting monitor settings Adjusting monitor settings Use the monitor controls (located on the monitor itself) and computer controls (accessible through Windows) to adjust the display image. For more information about computer controls, see “Windows controls” on page 19. Monitor buttons This monitor features an on-screen display (OSD) that le…