There are buttons on the front of the monitor. Why

1. Push the menu button at the front side of your Dell monitor. The icon looks look like a miniature version of your monitor.

2. Push the menu button again. This will exit the monitor menu and launch the OSD (On-Screen Display) menu.

3. Use the down arrow button on your monitor to select "Factory Reset."

4. Push the menu button.

5. Use the down arrow button to select "All Settings." Press the menu button to save changes.

6. Push the menu button twice to exit from the menu. Your Dell monitor will go back to its factory settings default, and its auto-detect feature will be disabled.

I have a smaller sized Gateway monitor than yours, but I'm sure the monitor buttons (on the front) perform the same functions on all sizes.

You should have eight control buttons on the front of the bezel (as listed from left to right): source, menu, down arrow, up arrow, left arrow, right arrow, auto/set, and on/off buttons.

Press the menu button, the first dialog screen that appears (at least on mine) is the brightness/contrast function. The screen will show the function to be changed, and a very small picture of what screen you have in view.

Once the first function is listed on the screen, press the down arrow to access the other screens (color, tracking and set-up), each having their own little picture indicating what screen you are looking at.

Brightness/contrast - picture of half light, half dark circle
color - RGB picture
tracking - two squares on top on one another slightly off center
set-up- hand pointing left

You want the set-up screen which shows a picture (I think) of a little hand pointing to the left. Once you are in the set-up screen, press the auto/set button and the first line will be highlighted (usually it is the language choice).

Once highlighted, press the right arrow button until your language name appears (i.e., English, Duetsch, Francais, Espanol Italiano, -there is no choice on mine for Japanese, etc.).

Press the menu button again and that should do it.

Your monitor should have a button on it that says "Auto". Press that. If it doesn't have a button like that, then find one that says "Menu" and look through the Menu to find something like "Auto-config". Alternatively, you could use your monitor's menu to manually adjust the horizontal position of your screen.

You use the button with the <> arrows to move through the menu selections. Use the menu key to select the function you want to change.

Below is an excerpt from the Acer manual. The manual can be found at http://www.retrevo.com/support/Acer-X203H-Monitors-manual/id/23224bh549/t/2/


Front Panel Controls
1.Power Switch:
To turn ON or OFF the power.
2.Power LED:
Lights up to indicate the power is turned ON.
3.Empowering / Exit:
1) When OSD menu is in active status, this button will act as EXIT-KEY(EXIT
OSD menu).
2) When OSD menu is in off status, press this button to select scenario
mode.
4.Auto Adjust button / Exit:
1)When OSD menu is in active status, this button will act as EXIT-KEY (EXIT
OSD menu).
2)When OSD menu is in off status, press this button for 2 seconds to
activate the AutoAdjustment function.The Auto Adjustment function is
used to set the HPos, VPos, Clock and Focus.
5.< / >
Press < or > to select the desired function.Press < or > to change the
settings of the current function.
6.MENU / ENTER:
Activate OSD menu when OSD is OFF or activate/de-activate adjustment
function when OSD is ON.

restore your settings to "Factory Settings" by

use the front panel buttons

Power Turns the monitor on and to standby or sleep mode.
? NOTE: The power button is located on the top or front of the monitor depending on the model.
- Menu Opens, selects, or exits the OSD menu.
-Adjusts the volume level.
-Opens the Quick View menu to quickly adjust settings for gaming, video, photo, and text.
? Navigates backward through the OSD menu and decreases adjustment levels.
+ Navigates forward through the OSD menu and increases adjustment levels.
Auto Auto-adjusts the display
Select Enters the selected option.

mcdevito75 here, On the monitor itself press the auto button for factory settings, if this doesn"t work, press the menu button for adjusting contrast, color etc. if this doesn"t work your monitor may be going bad.

mcdevito75 here, You should have an AUTO button on your monitor that when pressed or pushed it"ll automatically adjust your monitor picture. If this doesn"t help you can try the menu button to adjust manually.

on your crt's manual menu you can resize the screen hit the menu button on your screen to begin or you can try the auto button

You can download a copy of the manual from hp by going here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=324216&os=228&lang=en&

and picking the "monitor user's guide" link.

The auto configuration is just a choice from the main menu. If your monitor OSD is locked so you can't select anything (you get a message when you press any button), you can follow the manual procedure to unlock it. But unless there is some electronic problem with the monitor, you should not be having trouble with autoconfiguration.

Main board problem or a connector is not fully inserted