Gigabyte Q2442N, Q2442M User Manual

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.

Check Supplied Items

AC Adapter Battery Pack Manual

Power Cord Driver CD Warranty Card

* The illustrations in this document may appear differently from your model.

Using GIGABYTE Notebook for the First Time

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K/B

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To install the battery please follow these steps:

Slide the battery into the slot until both latches (Shown as A & B) “click” into

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place.

You may hear a “clicking” sound, once the battery is secure.

Slide latch A to the left to lock the battery in place.

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1 Connect the the power cord to the AC adapter.

2 Connect the AC adapter to the DC-in jack on the left side of the notebook..

3 Connect the power cord to the power outlet.

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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

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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

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Operating System.

Your GIGABYTE Notebook Tour

Top View

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POSH

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1 Built-In Microphone

2 Webcam

3 LCD Display

4 Keyboard

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5 TouchPad

6 LED Indicators

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7 Super POSH Button

8 Power Button

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Power Status LED

Wireless Lan Status LED

HDD Status LED

Battery Status LED

Left View

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1 DC-in Jack

2 LAN (RJ-45) Port

3 External Moniter (VGA) Port

4 HDMI Port

5 USB3.0 Port

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Right View

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2 4 531

Base View & Front View

1 USB2.0 Port

2 Headphone Jack

3 Microphone Jack

4 Optical Disc Drive

5 Kensington Lock Slot

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1 Battery Bay

2 Memory, CPU compartment

3 HDD Compartment

4 Multi Card Reader

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5 Speakers

6-in-1 Card Reader Supports :

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● Secure Digital (SD)

● SDXC

● SDHC

● Memory Stick (MS)

● Multi Media Card (MMC)

● Memory Stick PRO (MS PRO)

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Hotkeys

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

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Fn+F1 Sleep Mode

Fn+F2 Silent Mode

Fn+F3 Mute Toggle Mute On/Off.

Fn+F4 Display Toggle

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.

Enter Suspend Mode.

Enable/Disable Silent mode
(Power Management)

Changes Display Mode: LCD-only, CRT/HDMI-only
and simultaneous LCD&CRT/HDMI

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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GIGABYTE Smart Recovery

● 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

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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
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.

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recovery tool to reinstall the

4. The "Recovering" window willopen and begin the
recovery.

5. Once it is complete, you will be prompted to reboot the
Notebook.

Super POSH Introduction

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.

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Normal

Highperformance

Dynamic switch

* Super Power always keeps status.

Balance system performance.

Provide system best performance.

Switch “Power saving” & “Normal mode”
automatically when battery mode, and auto switch
“High performance” mode when plug-in.

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B.Information:
Super Power display some power information of system.

Items Description

Battery
LifeTime

Show battery discharge time.

CPU
Loading

Battery
Percentage

Power
Status

Warning:
If the percentage of battery was under 10%, there will pop a warning window
on task icon.

Show CPU loading.

Show the percentage of battery.
There will also be a status bar:

Color Status

red 0~10

orange 11~30

Blue 31~100

Show Current Power Status from AC or Battery icons.

Battery mode

Plug-in and Charging

Plug-in and Full

AC only

● 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

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Silent mode

Mute(only speaker)

Volume

Brightness

Touchpad

Wireless

Webcam

Caps Lock

Num Lock

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● Super Speed :

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Super Speed optimizes and cleans system to obtain the best effective and
defragment.

A. Optimizing Windows

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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

Service

Modify visual effect setting to increase the performance of
system.

Terminate uncommon programs running in the background when
Windows

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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.

● 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

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Healthy

Warning

Danger

Not Support

● Advanced :

There were 46 attributes from S.M.A.R.T to determine the HDD health Index.

HDD status will be healthy if all status of normal.

HDD status is warning if there was over one items.

HDD status is danger if there were over one danger items.

HDD was not support this function.

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*This specication is for users’ reference only. The nal conguration depends on the users' bought.

Specication

SKU Type Q2442M Q2442N

CPU 3rd Generation Intel

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● Genuine Windows

● Genuine Windows

Display 14" 1366x768 LED Backlight

System Memory 2GB/4GB DDRIII, 2 slots(Max 8GB)

Chipset Mobile Intel

Video Graphics ● Intel

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HD Graphics 4000

Storage 320/500/640/750GB 2.5" 9.5mm SATA HDD 5400rpm

ODD 12.7mm Super Multi DVD RW

USB(2.0)*1, USB(3.0)*2, HDMI, D-Sub, RJ45, Mic-

I/O Port

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

LAN 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Base-T

Communications

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)

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Core™ i3 / i5 / i7 Processor

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7 Home Premium

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7 Professional

HM76 Express Chipsets

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HD Graphics 4000

● Intel

● NVIDIA

GT630M 2GB Supports
NVIDIA
Technology

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GeForce

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OptimusTM

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Appendix

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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

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FAQ :

For FAQ (Frequent Asked Questions), please refer to the following link:
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/faq.aspx