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298P4
298X4
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EN User manual 1
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Troubleshooting & FAQs 44
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Table of Contents 1. Important ................................................1 1.1 Safety precautions and maintenance ...1 1.2 Notational Descriptions .............................2 1.3 Disposal of product and packing material ................................................................3 2. Setting up the monitor .........................4 2.1 Installation ...........................................................4 2.2 Operating the monitor ...............................7 2.3 MultiView
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1. Important Please use approved power cord provided 1. Important by Philips all the time. If your power cord is missing, please contact with your local This electronic user’s guide is intended for service center. (Please refer to Customer anyone who uses the Philips monitor. Take time Care Consumer Information Center) to read this user manual before you use your Do not subject the monitor to severe monitor. It contains important information and vibration or high impact conditions
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1. Important Temperature: 0-40°C 32-104°F 1.2 Notational Descriptions Humidity: 20-80% RH The following subsections describe notational Important information for Burn-in/Ghost conventions used in this document. image Notes, Cautions and Warnings Always activate a moving screen saver Throughout this guide, blocks of text may be program when you leave your monitor accompanied by an icon and printed in bold or unattended. Always activate a periodic italic type. These blocks contain
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1. Important Taking back/Recycling Information for 1.3 Disposal of product and packing Customers material Philips establishes technically and economically Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment- viable objectives to optimize the environmental WEEE performance of the organization's product, service and activities. From the planning, design and production stages, Philips emphasizes the important of making products that can easily be recycled. At Philips, end-of-life management primaril
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2. Setting up the monitor Install base stand 2. Setting up the monitor 298P4: 1. Place the monitor face down on a smooth 2.1 Installation surface. Pay attention not to scratch or damage the screen. Package contents 298P4: 298P4 2. Hold the stand with both hands. (1) Gently attach the stand to the VESA mount area until the latch locks the stand. (2) Gently attach the base to the stand. Power cable
located at the bottom of the base, and secure
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2. Setting up the monitor 298X4: Connecting to your computer 1. Place the monitor face down on a smooth 298P4: surface. Pay attention not to scratch or damage the screen. 10 11 12 1 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 5 9 2 4 3 2. Hold the base with both hands. (1) Gently attach the base to the stand. !
located at the bottom of the base, and secure the base to the stand tightly. 1 AC power switch 2 AC power input 3 DisplayPort input 4 DVI input 5 HDMI1, HDMI
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2. Setting up the monitor 298X4: Note Depending on the capabilities of your graphic cards, you should be able to daisy chain multiple displays with various 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 configurations. Your display configurations 8 5 will depend on your graphic card 9 4 2 capabilities. Please check with your graphic 3 card vendor and always update your graphic card driver. We recommend AMD HD6850 or higher graphic cards, or it’s equivalent in other brand for daisy-chain function. For a better
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2. Setting up the monitor Customize your own “USER” key 2.2 Operating the monitor This hot key allows you to setup your favorite Description of the control buttons function key. 1. Press button on the front bezel to enter OSD Menu Screen. "# ! 3 2. >?
7 6 5 4 2 1 [OSD Settings], then press button. 3. >? @User], Switch m
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2. Setting up the monitor For example, if you selected [Audio Source] as In case you want to change it, you will have the hotkey, press the button on the front to go through the selection steps again to bezel, the [Audio Source] menu appears. select your new preferred audio source as the default. "# Description of the On Screen Display $% What is On-Screen Display (OSD)? $& On-Screen Display (OSD) is a feature in all Philips monitors. It allows an end user t
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2. Setting up the monitor The OSD Menu Below is an overall view of the structure of This monitor is designed for optimal the On-Screen Display. You can use this as a performance at its native resolution, 2560 × reference when you want to work your way 1080 @ 60 Hz. When the monitor is powered around the different adjustments later on. on at a different resolution, an alert is displayed on screen: Use 2560 × 1080 @ 60 Hz for best Main menu Sub menu results. Input DVI
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2. Setting up the monitor Pivot 2.3 MultiView What is it? Multiview enables active dual connect and view so that you can work with multiple devices like 298X4: PC and Notebook side-by-side simultaneously, making complex multi-tasking work a breeze. Tilt Why do I need it? With the ultra high resolution Philips MultiView display, you can experience a world of connectivity in a comfortable way in the <X
conveniently enjoy multipl
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2. Setting up the monitor 2. The MultiView selection menu appears. [PiP]: Picture in Picture >? < Open up a sub-window of $ * B another signal source. A (main) ( * When the sub source is not
B detected: A (main) 3. Press
and then exit automatically. How to enable MultiView by OSD menu? Besides pressing the hotkey directly on [PbP]: Picture by Picture the front bezel, the MultiView function can also be sel
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2. Setting up the monitor PiP Size: When PiP is activated, there are Off: Stop MultiView function. three sub-window sizes to choose: [Small], [Middle], [Large]. A (main) B Small Middle Large A (main) Note When you do the SWAP function, the video PiP Position: When PiP is activated, there and its audio source will swap at the same time. are four sub-window positions to choose. (Refer to page 8 “Independent audio playback, regardless of video input” for more detail.) Top-Left Top
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2. Setting up the monitor 298X4: 2.4 Remove the Base Assembly for 1. Place the monitor face down on a smooth VESA Mounting surface. Pay attention not to scratch or Before you start disassembling the monitor damage the screen. Then lift the monitor base, please follow the instructions below to stand. avoid any possible damage or injury. 298P4: 1. Extend the monitor base to its maximum height. 2. located at the bottom of the base, and then remove the ba
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3. Image Optimization 3. The SmartImage on screen display will 3. Image Optimization remain on screen for 5 seconds, or you can also press < 4. When SmartImage is enabled, the sRGB 3.1 SmartImage scheme is disabled automatically. To use sRGB, you need to disable SmartImage What is it? with the button on the front bezel of SmartImage provides presets that optimize your monitor. display for different types of content, dynamically Except using key to scroll down, you ca
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3. Image Optimization Game: Turn on over drive circuit for best 3.3 Philips SmartControl Premium response time, reduce jaggy edges for fast The new SmartControl Premium software moving objects on screen, enhance contrast by Philips allows you to control your monitor ratio for bright and dark scheme, this via an easy to use on-screen graphic interface. profile delivers the best gaming experience Complicated adjustments are a thing of the for gamers. past as this user friendly software
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3. Image Optimization You can adjust more options without wizard by Standard pane. Start with Standard pane Adjust menu Adjust Menu allows you to adjust Brightness, Contrast, Focus, Position and Resolution. You can follow the instruction and do the adjustment. Cancel prompts user if you want to cancel installation. 16
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3. Image Optimization Color menu Color Menu allows you to adjust RGB, Black Level, White Point, Display Gamma, Color Calibration, and SmartImage (Please refer to SmartImage section). You can follow the instruction and do the adjustment. Refer to below table for sub-menu item base on your input. Example for Color Calibration 17
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3. Image Optimization 1. "Show Me" starts color calibration tutorial. SmartImage 2. Start - starts the 6-step color calibration Allow users to change setting for better display sequence. setting based on content. 3. Quick View loads the before/after images. When Entertainment is set, SmartContrast and 4. To return to Color home pane, click the SmartResponse are enabled. Cancel button. 5. Enable color calibration - by default is on. If unchecked, does not allow for color calibration to happe
