Sony CPD-E215E: Table of Contents

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Step 3:

Turn on the monitor and computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Selecting the on-screen menu language (LANGUAGE/

INFORMATION) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Customizing Your Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Navigating the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Adjusting the brightness and contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Adjusting the centering of the picture (CENTER). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Adjusting the size of the picture (SIZE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Enlarging or reducing the picture (ZOOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Adjusting the shape of the picture (GEOMETRY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

GB

Adjusting the color of the picture (COLOR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Additional settings (SCREEN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Resetting the adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Technical Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Preset and user modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Power saving function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

If thin lines appear on your screen (damper wires). . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

On-screen messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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• Trinitron

is a registered trademark of

Trouble symptoms and remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Sony Corporation.

• Macintosh is a trademark licensed to

Self-diagnosis function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the

U.S.A. and other countries.

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• Windows

and MS-DOS are registered

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in

the United States and other countries.

• IBM PC/AT and VGA are registered

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

trademarks of IBM Corporation of the

U.S.A.

Preset mode timing table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i

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• VESA and DDC

are trademarks of the

TCO’99 Eco-document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i

Video Electronics Standard

Association.

•

E

NERGY

S

TAR is a U.S. registered

mark.

• All other product names mentioned

herein may be the trademarks or

registered trademarks of their respective

companies.

• Furthermore, “

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” and “

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” are not

mentioned in each case in this manual.

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