GVD E Series User manual

GVD HD NVR Hardware
Quick Installation Guide

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Hardware Quick Installation Guide
Hardware Installation
M90 Series
Recommended HDD for GVD NVR
M100 Series
M150 Series
M200 Series
M350 Series
M600 Series
Recording HDDs Initialize Procedures
Disable System Protection
Date & Time/Time Zone Setup
Network Setup
Screen Resolution Setup
Enable System Protection
How to Create Raid 5 (for M600 series only)
Change Boot Priority
HDD Installation Guide
Software Configuration
Create Volume for Recording
Add Camera Automatically
Setup Motion Recording
Troubleshooting FAQ
Appendix.
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Recording data is one of the most important part in security industry and hard
disk would be one of the most important component if users want to have their
recording data safely stored.
It is always recommended to use the hard disk model that GVD certifies, user
can find the updated list from the URL below :
http://www.gvdigital.com/document/Support_Lists/GVD_Certified_HDD_List.pdf
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Recommended HDD for GVD NVR
*Please refer to the Appendix page for HDD Installation Guide

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Hardware Quick Installation Guide
Hardware Installation M90 Series
Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to one of the USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the power cord to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and the
system will turn on automatically.
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Empowering Megapixel
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M90 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 3M
* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.

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Hardware Installation M100 Series
Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to the mouse PS2 port (green)/another USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the power cord to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and the
system will turn on automatically.
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M100 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 3M.
* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.

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Hardware Installation M150 Series
Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to the mouse PS2 port (green)/another USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the all power cords to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and
system will turn on automatically.
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M150 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 3M.
* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.

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Hardware Installation M150 Series
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Reset
HDD Fail
14 Manual Recording
15 Toggle Tour
16 Toggle Full Screen
17 Switch Pattern
18 Back to Live
6Power LED
5Recording LED
On when NVR is recording
Off when NVR is not recording
4Alarm
On when NVR has active alarm
Off when NVR does not have active alarm
3Video Loss
On when there is channel in video loss state
Off when there is no channel in video loss state
On when there is HDD in exception state
Off when all HDDs are in normal state
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20 Change Viewer Focus
9Step by Step Backward Playback
10 Step by Step Forward Playback
11 Playback Backward
12 Pause
13 Playback Forward
7Long Duration Playback
(Click once to playback forward/backward 5 mins)
8Short Duration Playback
(Click once to playback forward/backward 30 secs)

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Hardware Installation M200 Series
Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to the mouse PS2 port (green)/another USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the power cord to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and the
system will turn on automatically.
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M200 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 3M.
* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.

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Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to the mouse PS2 port (green)/another USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the power cord to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and the
system will turn on automatically.
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M350 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 10M.
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* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.
Hardware Installation M350 Series

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Hardware Installation M350 Series
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Power 11 Step by Step Backward Playback
12 Step by Step Forward Playback
13 Playback Backward
14 Pause
15 Playback Forward
16 Manual Recording
17 Snapshot
18 Toggle Tour
19 Toggle Full Screen
20 Switch Pattern
21 Back to Live
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Change Viewer Focus
Reset
3Power LED
4Recording LED
5Alarm
On when NVR is recording
Off when NVR is not recording
On when NVR has active alarm
Off when NVR does not have active alarm
6Video Loss
On when there is channel in video loss state
Off when there is no channel in video loss state
7HDD Fail
8Switch Monitor
9Long Duration Playback
On when there is HDD in exception state
Off when all HDDs are in normal state
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Outer :
Inner :
(Click once to playback forward/backward 5 mins)
10 Short Duration Playback
(Click once to playback forward/backward 30 secs)
Left = Playback backward with speed change
Right = Playback forward with speed change
Left = Playback backward frame by frame
Right = Playback forward frame by frame

Connect the keyboard to the Keyboard PS2 port (purple)/USB port.
Connect the mouse to the mouse PS2 port (green)/another USB port.
Connect the display monitor to the VGA port.
Connect the power cord to the AC power socket at the rear panel of the unit.
Plug in a CAT-6 UTP cable to the RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, and connect the other
end of the cable to a switch connecting to the camera network.
Plug in the speaker to the audio output port if necessary.
Plug in the all power cords to the AC power socket of power distribution unit and
system will turn on automatically.
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* Please DO NOT plug any USB device other than keyboard & mouse to the machine
before entering operating system.
* For M610 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 1.3M.
For M620-M640 series, it can support decoding resolution from D1 up to 10M.
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* GVD will not be liable for any malfunction of the system if customer installed any non-certified
3rd-party application in the system.
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Hardware Installation M600 Series

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Recording HDDs Initialize Procedures
Log on to Windows®.
Right click “My Computer” icon on desktop.
Select the “Manage” option.
Select the item “Disk Management” under “Storage” node for initializing the newly
added HDDs.
Right click on “Non Initialized” HDDs then select the “Initialize Disk”.
User can check all checkboxes for the HDDs want to initialize then press “Ok”.
All HDDs will become “Online” status.
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The newly added Hard Disks need to be initialized before volume creation
Non Inialized Inialize Disk
Online

Log on to Windows®.
Before configure the system, user need to disable the system protection function first
and re-enable it after finishing configuration. Please follow the steps below to configure
the system:
After the reboot, user can start to configure the system as described in the following
pages.
*While in the system protection mode, all the changes made to the system will be gone after reboot.
Disable System Protection
Double click on the Windows Toolbar.
Click Disable FBWF and Reboot Now.
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Software Configuration

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Date & Time/Time Zone Setup
Log on to Windows®.
Go to ‘Start Control Panel Date & Time’.
Select the ‘Time zone’ tab, set the correct time zone and apply.
Select the Date & Time tab, set the correct date & time and apply.
Select the ‘Internet Time’ tab and click ‘Update Now’ button to synchronize the time.
Press ‘OK’ to save the changes.
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Go to ‘Start Control Panel Network’.
Right mouse click on the active connection icon and select ‘Properties’ from the
pop-up menu.
Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and then press ‘Properties’.
In the ‘General’ tab, set the preferred IP address and the subnet mask
then press ‘OK’.
*Before conducting the network configuration, please make sure the network environment is ready.
If the network is not available, contact your network administrator for further help.
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Network Setup

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Screen Resolution Setup
Go to ‘Start Control Panel Display Properties’.
*The minimum supported screen resolution is 1280 x 1024.
Switch to Settings tab.
Change the ‘Screen resolution’ to 1680 x 1050 (recommend value).
Press ‘OK’ for saved the settings.

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Enable System Protection
Double click on the Windows Toolbar.
After the system has been configured, user needs to re-enable the system
protection function in order to keep the system away from harm. Please follow the
steps below to re-enable the system protection function:
After the reboot, the system will be in the system protection mode.
*In future, if system modification is necessary, please follow the steps “Disable System Protection”
in page 6.
Enable System Protection
Click Enable FBWF and Reboot Now.

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Create Volume for Recording
In Windows®desktop, double click the SCM program icon ( ).
Input default username Admin and password 6001 to login.
In the SCM program, press the ‘New Volume’ button in the left panel.
Input the name of the volume in the ‘Volume Name’ field.
Select the preferred hard disk(s) from the available hard disk list. Click
(add) button to add the selected hard disk(s) to the list of ‘Hard Disk in Volume’.
Press ‘Add to List’ button to add the volume into queue for formatting.
Press ‘Create’ to continue.
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The system shows a confirmation message – ‘Create Volume will reallocate your
hard disk and you will lose current data on the disk. Are you sure to keep doing
these jobs?’ Press ‘Yes’ to continue.
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In Windows®desktop, double click the HD NVR Manager program icon ( ).
Log on HD NVR Manager using default username Admin and password 6001.
Go to Configuration Mode.
Select the ‘Device’ tab, click the ‘Add’ button.‘Add Camera Device’ dialog appears
as shown below.
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Add Camera Automatically

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Add Camera Automatically (cont’d)
Select ‘Auto Discovery’ and the dialog appears as shown below.
Click the ‘Vendor’ dropdown box and select the preferred vendor name from the
list then pressing ‘Search’ to continue.
Input username and password of the vendor camera.
The system automatically searches all vendor’s connected IP cameras
in the network. The searching result will be listed.
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Select the cameras to be installed and click ‘Import’ button.
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The selected camera will be added to the system. A‘Configuration
page’ shows for changing the setting of the cameras.
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*Some cameras may not be added automatically. Refer to the details in the HD NVR user manual about
adding a camera manually.