Gigabyte Q2442M User manual

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Congratulations on the Purchase of Your New GIGABYTE Notebook Q2442 !
This quick start guide will help you to get started with setting up your notebook.
For more detailed information, please visit our website at www.gigabyte.com.
All specications are subject to the manufacturer's conguration at the time of shipping and
may change without prior notice, written or otherwise.
Using GIGABYTE Notebook for the First Time
Check Supplied Items
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To install the battery please follow these steps:
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Slide the battery into the slot until both latches (Shown as
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B
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place.
You may hear a “clicking” sound, once the battery is secure.
2Slide latch Ato the left to lock the battery in place.
AC Adapter Battery Pack Manual
Power Cord Driver CD Warranty Card
* The illustrations in this document may appear differently from your model.

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1Connect the the power cord to the AC adapter.
2Connect the AC adapter to the DC-in jack on the left side of the notebook..
3Connect the power cord to the power outlet.
Switching on the Power :
After you turn on the Q2442 for the very first time, do not turn it off until the
operating system has been configured. Please note that the volume for the
audio will not function until Windows®Setup has completed.
Booting Up the Q2442 for the First Time :
Depending on your conguration, the Microsoft®Windows® Boot Screen will be
the rst screen that you will see as the notebook starts up. Follow the on-screen
prompts and instructions and enter your personal information to complete the
setup of the Windows®Operating System.

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Your GIGABYTE Notebook Tour
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Top View
Left View
1Built-In Microphone
2Webcam
3LCD Display
4Keyboard
5TouchPad
6LED Indicators 
7Super POSH Button
8Power Button
Power Status LED
Wireless Lan Status LED
HDD Status LED
Battery Status LED
1DC-in Jack
2LAN (RJ-45) Port
3External Moniter (VGA) Port
4HDMI Port
5USB3.0 Port

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Base View & Front View
Right View
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1USB2.0 Port
2Headphone Jack
3Microphone Jack
4Optical Disc Drive
5Kensington Lock Slot
1Battery Bay
2Memory, CPU compartment
3HDD Compartment
4Multi Card Reader 
5Speakers
6-in-1 Card Reader Supports :
● Secure Digital (SD)
● SDXC
● SDHC
● Memory Stick (MS)
● Multi Media Card (MMC)
● Memory Stick PRO (MS PRO)

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The keyboard has a numeric keypad for easy numeric data input. Pressing the Fn +
NumLk keys turns on/off the numeric keypad. It also features function keys to allow you
to change operational features instantly. The function keys (Ecs,F1~F11) will act as hot
keys when pressed while the Fn key is held down.
Hotkey Function Description
Fn+Esc Bluetooth Enable/Disable Bluetooth
Fn+F1 Sleep Mode
Enter Suspend Mode.
Fn+F2 Silent Mode Enable/Disable Silent mode
(Power Management)
Fn+F3 Mute Toggle Mute On/Off.
Fn+F4 Display Toggle Changes Display Mode: LCD-only, CRT/HDMI-only
and simultaneous LCD&CRT/HDMI
Fn+F5 Volume Down Decrease the speaker volume.
Fn+F6 Volume Up Increase the speaker volume.
Fn+F7 Brightness Down Decrease the brightness level.
Fn+F8 Brightness Up Increase the brightness level.
Fn+F9 Touchpad Toggle Enable/Disable Touchpad
Fn+F10 WLAN Toggle Enable/Disable WLAN
Fn+F11 Webcam Toggle Enable/Disable the CCD camera
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6GIGABYTE Smart Recovery
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● System Recovery (Restore your Q2442 operating system) :
The hard drive of the Q2442 has a hidden partition that contains a full backup image of
the operating system that can be used to recover the system in the event that something
happens to the operating system.
CAUTION:
If the hard drive is removed or the partition deleted, the recover options will no longer
be available and a recovery service will be needed.
● Launch System Recovery :
The system recover feature is part of the Notebook installation and it ships preset from the
factory. The options menu allows you to launch the Windows®recovery tool to reinstall the
operating system to factory defaults.
● Below will briey describe how to launch the recovery tool and to get the recovery started.
1.Turn off or restart the Notebook.
2.Turn the Notebook on and press and hold the F9 key to launch the tool.
3.The recovery window will open and give you the option
to "Recovery" in the toolbar. You will be prompted if
you want to recovery. Click on "Recovery" to begin the
repair if you do.
4.The "Recovering" window willopen and begin the
recovery.
5.Once it is complete, you will be prompted to reboot the
Notebook.

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Super POSH Introduction
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Super POSH is an integrated AP which has great benefit for system. It includes “Super
Power” “Super OSD” “Super Speed” and “Super HDD.”
● Super Power:
Super Power provides an integrated page for user to control power management.
It could increase battery life and effective of you.
A.Mode:
There would be 4 Mode for selection. Description as below:
Mode Icon Description
Power saving
Decrease system performance to provide more
battery time.
Normal Balance system performance.
Highperformance Provide system best performance.
Dynamic switch
Switch “Power saving” & “Normal mode”
automatically when battery mode, and auto switch
“High performance” mode when plug-in.
* Super Power always keeps status.

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B.Information:
Super Power display some power information of system.
Items Description
Battery
LifeTime
Show battery discharge time.
CPU
Loading
Show CPU loading.
Battery
Percentage
Show the percentage of battery.
There will also be a status bar:
Color Status
red 0~10
orange 11~30
Blue 31~100
Power
Status
Show Current Power Status from AC or Battery icons.
Battery mode
Plug-in and Charging
Plug-in and Full
AC only
Warning:
If the percentage of battery was under 10%, there will pop a warning window
on task icon.

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● Super OSD (on screen display) :
Super OSD provide several styles and locations selection of OSD and also could get
the current status of OSD from status bar.
Super OSD function as follow: The function depends on the denition.
Function Preview
Bluetooth
Silent mode
Mute(only speaker)
Volume
Brightness
Touchpad
Wireless
Webcam
Caps Lock
Num Lock

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● Super Speed :
Super Speed optimizes and cleans system to obtain the best effective and
defragment.
A. Optimizing Windows®Setting :
Click “Optimize” button after selecting the optimizing options to improve system
performance. Click “Restore” button to restore system to original status. After “Optimize”
or “Restore”your system, please reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
The options description as below:
Options Description
Visual Effect Modify visual effect setting to increase the performance of
system.
Service Terminate uncommon programs running in the background when
Windows®is running.
Boot Speed up the time of booting process.
Shutdown Speed up the time of shutdown process.
Network Modify network setting to improve the performance of network.
System Modify system setting to increase the performance of system.

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● Super HDD :
Super HDD displays the health status of HDD and information of CPU & RAM.
Information of main HDD: Name, Type, Partitions and Total Size.
Use scroll bar to choose the partition, it will display File system, Total
Size and Free Size of every partitions.
Hard Disk Menu:
Normal: Show the HDD Health Index according to S.M.A.R.T result of the items in
detail page.
HDD Health Index Condition
Healthy HDD status will be healthy if all status of normal.
Warning HDD status is warning if there was over one items.
Danger HDD status is danger if there were over one danger items.
Not Support HDD was not support this function.
● Advanced :
There were 46 attributes from S.M.A.R.T to determine the HDD health Index.

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SKU Type Q2442M Q2442N
CPU 3rd Generation Intel®Core™ i3 / i5 / i7 Processor
OS ● Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
● Genuine Windows® 7 Professional
Display 14" 1366x768 LED Backlight
System Memory 2GB/4GB DDRIII, 2 slots(Max 8GB)
Chipset Mobile Intel® HM76 Express Chipsets
Video Graphics ● Intel®HD Graphics 4000
● Intel®HD Graphics 4000
● NVIDIA® GeForce®
GT630M 2GB Supports
NVIDIA® OptimusTM
Technology
Storage 320/500/640/750GB 2.5" 9.5mm SATA HDD 5400rpm
ODD 12.7mm Super Multi DVD RW
I/O Port
USB(2.0)*1, USB(3.0)*2, HDMI, D-Sub, RJ45, Mic-
in, Earphone-out, 6-in-1 card reader(SD/MMC/MS/
MS Pro/SDXC/SDHC), DC-in jack.
Audio 2W Speaker*2, Internal Mic-in
Communications
LAN 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Base-T
Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n Wireless
Bluetooth Bluetooth V3.0+HS
Webcam 1.3 Mega Pixel
Security Kensington Lock
Battery Li-on 6-cell, 4400mAh.
Dimensions 342.4(W) X 240(D) X 31.9 (H)mm
Weight ~2.2kg(w/ODD and 6-cell battery)
*This specication is for users’ reference only. The nal conguration depends on the users' bought.
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■Warranty & Service:
For Warranty, Service and related information, please refer to the warranty
card or GIGABYTE service website as the following link:
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/technical-support.aspx
■FAQ:
For FAQ (Frequent Asked Questions), please refer to the following link:
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/faq.aspx