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Gateway 901 Series
Family Room Media Center
User’s Guide
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Table of Contents Chapter One: Setting Up Family Room Media Center 1 About your Family Media Center 2 Planning your Family Media Center setup 3 Locating connections 3 Connections overview 4 Setting up the hardware 6 Setting up and synchronizing the wireless keyboard and mouse 8 Connecting the audio and video source 12 Connecting the IR control cable 14 Connecting a display device 15 Connecting an audio system 17 Setting up the software
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Learning about the wireless mouse 32 Table of Contents Using the wireless mouse 33 Fine-tuning the wireless mouse pointer control 34 Changing the wireless keyboard or mouse channels 38 Determining the wireless keyboard or mouse channels 35 Turning the wireless keyboard or mouse power on or off 35 Learning about the wireless keyboard 36 Starting the Windows XP Media Center 38 Using the Windows XP Media Center 39 Chapter Three: Using My TV 42 Wat
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Adding music CDs to the Media Library 55 Table of Contents Playing My Music 57 Chapter Five: Using My Pictures 61 Getting started with My Pictures 62 Organizing picture files 63 Viewing My Pictures 64 Using More Info 65 Playing audio during a slide show 66 Chapter Six: Using My Videos 67 Getting started with My Videos 68 Organizing video files 69 Viewing My Videos 70 Using More Info 71 Chapter Seven: Using Play DVD 73 Playing a DVD 7
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Chapter Ten: Getting Help 87 Media Center FAQs 88 Wireless keyboard and mouse troubleshooting 91 Getting more help 93 Using Help and Support 94 Other Family Media Center resources 95 Documentation 95 Windows Update 95 Web site 95 Contacting Gateway 96 Appendix A: Safety, Regulatory, and Legal Information 103 6
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SettingUp Family Room Media Center Plan your Family Media Center setup Set up hardware and software 1 ChapterOne
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About your Family Media Center The Family Media Center provides Use the Family Media Center Use the wireless keyboard and rich entertainment and powerful remote the same way you mouse to run Windows XP Media computing capabilities. You can use remotes for other home Center and other programs. run the Windows XP Media Center entertainment systems. You can while using other programs or use the remote and Family Media just enjoy the Windows XP Media Center to watch and record TV, Center in ful
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Planning your Family Media Center setup Video source — Make sure that you have access Locating connections to a video source before starting your Family Media Center setup. Your Media Center receives video You’ve probably already decided where you want to input from a coaxial, composite video, or S-Video locate your Family Media Center, but before you start cable. The video source usually comes from an setting up the Media Center, take a few minutes to make antenna, direct cable TV conn
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Connections overview Your Family Media Center accepts a variety of audio and video inputs and it can output audio and video to a number of audio and video devices. This is a sample setup diagram of a Media Center configuration. The Connect to the possible audio and video input connections to your Internet using: Family Media Center and the audio and video output RJ-11 jack connections from the Media Center are shown. For RJ-45 jack detailed information about setting up the Media Cent
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Connect to your Family Media Center using: Cable set-top box (S-Video, composite, or coaxial connection) Satellite receiver set-top box (S-Video, composite, or coaxial connection) Antenna (coaxial connection) Connect to a display device using: DVI-D Out jack S-Video Out jack VGA Out port 5
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Setting up the hardware 1 Connect the modem or broadband Internet (optional) 4 2 2 Connect the audio/video source A coaxial (TV in) connection carries both the audio and video signals. 1 If you use an S-Video or a Composite video 5 connection, you will also 1 need to connect audio using 3 2 5 RCA or Toslink stereo plugs. For detailed instructions about connecting the audio/video source, see page 12. Gateway FMC-901 Media Center 3 Connect the IR control Plug one end of the IR con
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6 Install the mouse, keyboard, and remote batteries. For more information, see “To install and For more information, see “To install the charge the mouse battery pack” on page 8. keyboard batteries” on page 9. 7 Plug in your Media Center 8 Turn on your Media Center 9 Sync up wireless devices Press the power button on the front of your Family Media Center. keyboard mouse For more information, see “Sychronizing the wireless keyboard and mouse” on page 8. 7
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Setting up and synchronizing the wireless keyboard and mouse Before using the wireless mouse and keyboard, install Connect the power 3 the batteries into both devices, connect the power adapter to the mouse adapter to the mouse charging cradle, charge the mouse charging cradle, then for 9 hours before using, and synchronize the mouse and plug the power adapter keyboard with the radio frequency (RF) receiver on your into the power outlet. Family Media Center. To install and charge the mouse
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Remove the battery compartment cover. 2 Tip: The keyboard cover may be attached to the back of the keyboard when you receive it. Remove the keyboard cover from the back of the keyboard, as shown below, to access the battery compartment cover. To protect the keyboard when not in use, you can place the keyboard cover over the keyboard keys. To install the keyboard batteries Press the keyboard cover tabs down to remove 1 the keyboard cover from the back of the keyboard. Insert 4 AAA batterie
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Press and hold the Learn button on your Family 2 Tip: Media Center for 2 seconds then release the When synchronizing the wireless keyboard and mouse, make sure that you synchronize (teach) both the keyboard and mouse during button. The Status light on the Family Media the same Learning mode session. If you synchronize one wireless Center’s front panel blinks slowly to indicate the device and later enter the Learn mode to synchronize the other receiver is in the Learn mode. wireless devic
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Teach button Press and release the To exit the Learn mode, press the Learn button on 3 5 Teach button located your Family Media Center for two seconds. If you on the bottom of the do not exit the Learn mode, it will automatically mouse. The Status light time out after five minutes. on the Family Media Center’s front panel blinks rapidly for four seconds, then begins blinking slowly. Teach button Press and release 4 the Teach button on the top left corner of the wireless keyboard. 11
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Connecting the audio and video source Tip: Your Family Media Center has connectors for coaxial (TV), The quality of the video coming into your Family Media Center S-Video, or composite video. Select the connector that your determines the quality of the video output to your Media Center video source supports: display device. A direct cable connection, cable set-top box, or satellite set-top box usually provides a better quality signal than an Coaxial (TV) — The video and audio signals a
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To connect S-Video or composite video Connect an S-Video or composite video cable Connect an RCA cable (not included) from the 1 2 from a video source (such as a cable set-top Audio Out jacks on the video device to the Audio box, a satellite set-top box, or other video In RCA jack on the back of your Media Center. device) to the S-Video In or Composite Video In port on the back of your Family Media Center. - OR - 13
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Connecting the IR control cable If your Family Media Center configuration uses a set-top Remove the adhesive paper from the back of the 3 box for the Media Center video source, connect the IR control. infrared (IR) control cable from the Family Media Center to the set-top box IR sensor window. The IR control cable sends input from the remote sensor to your set-top box to change channels. To connect the IR control cable Plug the IR control cable into the IR control port 1 on the back of you
