Sony CPD-G400P: 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Step 3:

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

Selecting the on-screen menu language (LANG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Selecting the input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Customizing Your Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Navigating the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Adjusting the brightness and contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Automatically sizing and centering the picture (AUTO) . . . . . . . . . 11

Adjusting the centering of the picture (CENTER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Adjusting the size of the picture (SIZE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Enlarging or reducing the picture (ZOOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Adjusting the shape of the picture (GEOM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Adjusting the color of the picture (COLOR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Adjusting the convergence (CONV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Additional settings (OPTION) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Helpful hints and information (HELP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Resetting the adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Technical Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16



• Trinitron

is a registered trademark of

Sony Corporation.

Preset and user modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

• Macintosh is a trademark licensed to

Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the

Power saving function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

U.S.A. and other countries.



• Windows

and MS-DOS are registered

trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

the United States and other countries.

• IBM PC/AT and VGA are registered

If thin lines appear on your screen (damper wires). . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

trademarks of IBM Corporation of the

On-screen messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

U.S.A.

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• VESA and DDC

are trademarks of the

Trouble symptoms and remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Video Electronics Standard

Self-diagnosis function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Association.

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E

NERGY

S

TAR is a U.S. registered

mark.

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

• All other product names mentioned

herein may be the trademarks or

registered trademarks of their respective

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

companies.

• Furthermore, “



” and “

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” are not

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

mentioned in each case in this manual.

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