INTRO - Ports, Buttons and Connections
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
Hard disk activity indicator (red) On indicator (green) Battery charger indicator (green) Move UP (also increases volume during media playback) Move DOWN (also decreases volume during media playback) Move LEFT (also plays previous song or fast reverse through song or video) Move RIGHT (also plays next song or fast forward through song or video) On/Enter/Play/Go Hold for 4 seconds to turn on Escape/Stop/Off Hold for 4 seconds to turn off device Left function button Activates the left on-screen menu item (p) Also buttons lock. Center function button Activates the center on-screen menu item (q) Also speaker on/off Right function button Activates the right on-screen menu item (r) LCD/TV button Hold down for 3 seconds to switch between LCD and external TV display TFT LCD screen 320 x 240 pixels Built-in loud speaker (hold down on button k for three seconds to turn speaker on and off) Screen function buttons which correspond to j, k, l

INTRO - First Time Usage

Please take the time to read though this manual. There are many things that this device can do that you may not be aware of. a b c
LCD/TV button Hold down for 3 seconds to switch between LCD and external TV display Microphone for making digital voice recordings CompactFlash Type I slot
Plugging in the AC Adapter
Use only the included ARCHOS charger/adapter. You may use the Archos Video AV400 while its battery is charging, but it will then take longer before the battery is completely charged.

Turning on the AV400

USB 2.0 port (USB 1.1 compatible) to connect the AV400 to your computer Power Connector (use only the supplied Archos power charger/adapter) Multi-connect jack* for headphones, TV Cradle, and AV in/out connections
Shutting off the AV400 and Battery saving features
*The optional multi-connect adapter and AV cable allow for audio and video playing/recording without the TV Cradle.

Multi-connect Adapter

AV Cable 7 8
To shut off the unit, press and hold the STOP/ESC/OFF button for 3 seconds. In the Power menu [Setup Power: Battery Operation] there is a Power Off parameter. It is factory set to 2 minutes. Thus, if your AV400 is idle for 2 minutes, it will shut off. This setting can be changed from one to nine minutes or to never. In the Power menu [Setup Power: Battery Operation] there is a Backlight Off parameter to save battery power (the lighting of the screen consumes a lot of the battery power). It is factory set to 30 seconds. That is, if there are no buttons pressed, the screen will shut off in order to save battery life. To turn the screen back on, just click once on any button. See section 17.5 for a complete explanation.

Changing the Language

The AV400 interface can be set to English (default), French, or German. To change the language, move the joystick to Setup and then click PLAY/ENTER. Using the joystick to highlight the Language parameter. Now move the joystick to the Right or Left to choose the desired language. Choose French, German, or English. The language displayed will change immediately. Click on the STOP/ESC button to exit this screen.

4 hours* of AVI video playback time (on the built-in screen) from the batteries. Some AV400 models are made with integrated batteries which are designed to last for the life of the AV400. This means that you will not have to change them. If, in the exceptional case, the batteries need changing, this should only be done by an Archos technician.
* depending on how you use it (start/stop/writing, etc.)

Caring for the AV400

The Archos Video AV400 is an electronic product that needs to be treated with more care than typical consumer electronic products. Do not subject it to shock. Do not subject it to heat. Keep it ventilated (especially when connected to a computer). Keep the AV400 away from water and excessively humid areas. Keep any connected cords to the AV400 neatly arranged. This light product could fall if a cord is accidentally pulled by a child. Do not open up the AV400. There are no user serviceable parts inside. Opening will void your warranty.

Foreign Character Sets

font folder under /Data on the AV400 hard disk or on the Archos website under the heading Software. If, for example, you would like to have the folder /system on the AV400 and shut down and restart the AV400. File names, folder names, and ID3 tags written using the Microsoft codepage for the language will now be displayed in that character set. Only one

Hardware Reset

will be set to English.
In the event that your AV400 freezes operation (due to electrostatic phenomena for example), you can actuate a hardware reset by holding down on the STOP/ESC button for 10 seconds. In normal operation, the STOP/ESC button will shut down the AV400 after being held down for 3 seconds.

Charging the Batteries

Other chargers or adapters may damage the AV400. The green CHARGE indicator lights up to indicate that the external adapter is connected. The batteries will charge automatically when the AC adapter/charger is plugged in. Once the batteries are fully charged, this light will blink, indicating that you can disconnect the charger/adapter. Once charged, you can get up to 12 hours* of MP3 music playback time and up to 9 10
When you click on this icon in the main screen, you will be sent directly to the Music folder. Use the direction buttons to highlight one of the factory installed music selections and then Click on PLAY you have adjusted the volume control on the headphone cord. By clicking on the Music icon in the main menu screen, you will enter into a music listed if you enter the folder via the Browser.

Current Directory Play Order Play Mode: One Directory Status: Playing Volume (maximum:31) Battery level (full) Time of Day
To lock the AV400 buttons, press and hold the left function button for three seconds. The AV400 will display the message Buttons locked! on the bottom of the screen. Press this again for three seconds to unlock the buttons. What the Icons indicate Status
Stopped Blinks while playing a track Pause Recording a track

Play Order

- no icon Play once Repeat playing dom) track selection Playlist

Play Mode

See section 17.2
*APIC Album picture Volume level meters Song elapsed time Song time remaining Song Length Go to setup options Show Music Options Browse the hard disk for other tracks
Playing Through your Stereo System

Button Control

Increase the Volume
Click once: Play the previous song Click once: Play the next song in the seconds of song) otherwise go to the beginning of the song. Hold: Fast forward through the song. Hold: Fast reverse through the song. folder or playlist.

Stop Song

Decrease the Volume

Play/pause/resume song

On your HiFi there are two RCA type connectors that are labeled Aux in, CD in, or Line-in. Typically they are color coded white and red for left and right stereo channels respectively. Just take a stereo mini jack plug to RCA cable (not included) and connect the mini plug to the AV400 headphone jack and the other end to the Aux in, CD in, or linein of your stereo system. Or better, connect the Archos TV cradles AV Out red and white connectors directly to your stereo auxiliary inputs and place AV400 into the TV Cradle. On the front of your stereo, select the corresponding auxiliary input or CD input that you plugged into on the back of your HiFi system. Press Play and then adjust the AV400 volume (UP/DOWN buttons) in order to supply your stereo system with a signal that is neither too weak nor too strong. If the sound is distorted, you will need to reduce the AV400s volume. You can turn on and off the built-in speaker by holding the center function button for three seconds. 11 12

Player 9 as explained above. To install the Service Provider Plug-in to Windows Media player, run the Archos Installation Utility as explained above, and then chose Archos Media Player Service Provider Plug-in. Follow the on screen instructions. If you have accidentally deleted it,
MUSIC - Using iTunes with your AV400
Macintosh computer and your AV400 is to use the your Macintosh. However, for Macintosh users who do want to use the AV400 with iTunes, Archos has developed a special i Tunes /Data/i-Tunes Plug-in on the AV400 hard disk or from the Archos website. In this folder you will

VIDEO - Playing Video

then click on PLAY/GO. The thumbnail images on the right side will show you a frame from the highlighted video By clicking on the Video icon in the main menu, you will enter into a video only mode. enter the folder via the Browser. To watch your videos on a television, you must hold down the LCD/TV button for three second. The AV400 screen will go black and the video will be sent out to your connected television. Switch your television to auxiliary video input (often found just below channel 1 sometimes called L1 or L2). If you dont see a clear color image, you may have to set your AV400 to your local television standard (NTSC or PAL) in the Setup > Display settings menu. Use the PLAY/GO button to pause/unpause the video. Long press to switch between built-in video and external video. Use the UP/DOWN buttons to control the volume. Hold down the RIGHT/LEFT buttons to fast forward or fast reverse through the video. Click the right function button to Hide/Show the overlaid video time information. Click the Options function button to set a bookmark, change the screen presentation. Press and hold for three seconds to turn the built-in speaker on and off. 25 26
Once this is done, iTunes will recognize the AV400 as a Device. To make your user experience easy as possible, please keep in mind the following. 1) When you create your Playlists with iTunes (you can only create Playlists from songs that have been copied to your AV400), your Macintosh will save these Playlists to the root directory of your AV400. It will not save them to the AV400 Playlists directory. It would be best to use the AV400 itself to make Playlists (section 4.2) and then save these Playlists in your Playlists folder. library to your AV400, the i-Tunes program will look at the ID3 tag information (See section 3.3 of this manual for an explanation of ID3 tags) of the MP3

Artist as the folder name. Then it will take the Album name ID3 tag, and create a subfolder with that album as its name. Finally, it will take the MP3 song itself and place it into that album subfolder. Thus, although it is a clean structure of artists and albums, i-Tunes does not follow the AV400 convention of placing the music into the Music
Click on the left function button to put the video into slow-motion view. You can cycle through the values Normal, , , and 1/8 speed. The sound is muted when in slow motion. While in slow mode and paused, you can step image per image with the LEFT button.

Display Format Settings

You will notice in the Options button (center function button), that you have a number of display format options. In certain cases, depending on how the original video was recorded, you may want to use these adjustments.
Default mode : Adjusts the video size to best adapt to the LCD screen.
16/9 aspect: Send out a TV signal without the black horizontal bars. Will not be cropped on the LCD. No Overscan: Picture will not pass into the overscan area. Entire picture will always be seen on all televisions.
If you are watching a video and would like to place a bookmark in it in order to continue from this point at another time, you can use the Bookmark function. You simply click on the center function button labeled Options, then choose Set Bookmark. This will set a bookmark in the video
will be presented with three options: Resume: Ignore: Clear very beginning. Start playing from the bookmarked position. Keep the bookmark but start playing from the very beginning.
Playing Video Files from the Internet
The number of encoding and compression schemes currently used to basis. There are so many standards and formats that it is very possible
formatted in MPEG4 they may not play right away. The AV400 series
size of 720 by 576 pixels (25 frames/second). The AV400 will not directly (compression/decompression) other than the XviD and DivX MPEG4

The Resume Function

When you turn on your AV400 you will sometimes notice that the icon which is highlighted on the main screen is not the Browser but rather the Resume icon. This icon is highlighted when the AV400 can resume
You will have to use the software Mp4SP included on the AV400 hard disk to re-encode them into the proper XviD or DivX MPEG4 format with an MP3 or IMAADPCM sound track. See chapter 13 for more details.
1. Select VideoCorder on the main menu screen. In the pre-record screen, you should see movement on the sound level bar indicating that sound will be recorded. Adjust the sound level by clicking the LEFT/RIGHT buttons. Before starting the recording, you can adjust the recording parameters via the middle function button Settings. Click on Hide Bar to hide the video recording overlay information.
Setting the Recording Parameters

Pre-record Screen

Rename Auto Stop Rec On, Off. If set to On, the AV400 will stop recording after the duration set in the next line. For example, you want to record a television show for two hours but do not want to stay around for the two hours to stop the recording. In the screen above, a recording that you start manually will last for 2 hours. If set to Off, the recording will continue until you click on the stop button or This is the duration of time your recording will last if Auto Stop Rec above is set to On. This is a safety margin added to the beginning of a scheduled recording which was set via the My Yahoo! TV scheduler of your personal calendar. It affects ONLY those recordings. This is just in case the clocks between your AV400 and the broadcast station are different or if the broadcast station starts earlier than expected. This is a safety margin added to the end of a scheduled recording which was set via the My Yahoo! TV scheduler of your personal calendar. It affects ONLY those recordings. This is just in case the clocks between your AV400 and the broadcast station are different or if the broadcast station runs overtime. Composite, S-Video, Auto. You can choose which video input you want the AV400 to use. Normally, with a good video signal, you can set it to Auto, and the AV400 will scan the two inputs to see which one is receiving video. Auto, 4:3, 5:3, 16:9, 2.35. This is the aspect ratio of the screen that the AV400 will record. You can set this manually, but in most cases you can just leave it on Auto.

Duration Pre-record

Setup Parameters

Post-record

Source

During Recording

Format

Resolution

Bitrate

Sampling

32kHz, 48kHz. The sound sampling rate. The higher value gives a higher quality sound but will take up more space on the hard drive. Use this to increase or decrease the recorded image brightness Use this to increase or decrease the recorded image contrast
Brightness Contrast Saturation Hue Reset

Copy Protection

Use this to change the color spectrum in the recorded image Change the above settings to the AV400 default settings
button to return to the pre-record screen.
Click the LEFT/RIGHT buttons to adjust the sound input level. Too far to the right will often give an overdriven distorted quality. Too far to the left may make for a very soft sound. Try a few recordings to get a sense of what is the best sound level. Do not let the headphone volume fool you. That can be adjusted independently with the UP/DOWN buttons. If you would like to make a recording in another folder instead of the default Video folder, go to the desired folder via the main Video icon, then click on the right function button Record.

Manually Setting the Scheduler
When the user interface is in English, the Date format is set to Month/ Day. If the end time is earlier than the start time, then it is assumed that you start recording on the start date, and the recording ends on the the screen above will start recording on the 16th day of June, and end on the 17th at 2am. Once a scheduled recording has been made, or the date of a recording has been passed, without the recording having been made (the Archos unit was not in the TV Cradle or not in Standby mode), the schedule entry will be erased from the scheduler. make long recordings. Thus a long scheduled recording may produce
Notes about setting the Scheduler.
Automated Yahoo! TV Recording Scheduler
For those who have a My Yahoo! account and use the calendar feature, the AV400 can read the TV programs scheduled into your personal calendar and thus make scheduled recordings this way. You can sign up for an account and learn how to use the My Yahoo! TV and calendar functions at the Yahoo! Website (www.yahoo.com). You must do the following: 1. Connect your AV400 to your computer. 2. Go to your personal Yahoo! calendar which has your TV programs scheduled. 3. Choose the Week view starting with the current day as the beginning of the week. 4. Click on Printable View to show a cleaner printable version. 5. From your browser menu click on File > Save As 6. Do not change the File Name, but do change the Save as Type to Web page, html only System on your AV400. 7. Once you disconnect the AV400 from your computer, the AV400 will automatically update its scheduler with the newly saved TV programs from your My Yahoo! Calendar. If the AV400 encounters a television station name that it does not know the channel number for (was never set), it will indicate so, and direct you to go to the scheduler to manually assign a channel to the station name. Notes: If the TV programs from your personal calendar do not seem to be correctly copied to the AV400 scheduler, go to the Archos web site to
in your list of channels, it will put the event into the scheduler and mark it with a ?, indicating that you must assign a channel number to the name. Move the cursor to the line containing the ?, and click on the center function button Set Channel. You can now scroll through the channel numbers and assign a number to the station name for that event. You only have to do this once.
If you change your Yahoo! personal calendar by deleting some TV programs and adding new ones, only the new programs will be added you want to delete scheduled items, you must do this in the AV400 scheduler itself. Missed recordings (because you did not have the AV400 in the TV Cradle connected to your Television at the record time) will be deleted from the scheduler. 35 36

VIDEO Setting the Infrared Emitter Code
calendar to set your recording scheduler, any unknown station name will be indicated in the scheduler with a ?. You then have the possibility to assign a channel number to the station name by clicking all the station names and channel numbers by hand.
11.2 Part 2: Testing the Emitter codes
11.1 Part 1: Choose your Device, Brand and Model
On the main screen, go to Setup then click on TV Control. 3. Tune device code (multiple codes available): Some makers of video equipment dont use the same set of control codes for all of their products. They have various code sets for various models and code works with your device. In the example screen, you see the code C109. If this code does not work when doing the Test: channel select, advance it to the next code and then test to see if that next code works. 4. Test channel select: When you press the Test channel select button (Highlight test channel select and press ENTER button on AV400), the AV400 will send a signal through the cradle to the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device and changes the channel. If the Number of digits parameter is set to three, it will try to select channel 123. If that parameter is set to 2 or 1, it will send the code for channel 12 and channel 1 respectively. 5. Test ON/OFF: When you click on the Test On/Off button, the AV400 will send a signal to the TV Cradle, which will then send a signal out to the Infrared Emitter stuck to your device and turn your device on and 37 38
1. Select the type of device that you have stuck your IR Emitter to. You have the choice of either a VCR (video cassette recorder), Cable Box, or Satellite Receiver. 2. Select the brand of your device. 3. Click on Tune IR Emitter button. 4. The TV channels button allows you to give names to each channel. For example, if channel 6 is CNN then you can name it in this screen. personal
off. Click this test button again and your device should change from on to off or off to on. If pressing this button does not turn on and off your device, try the next code for your device (step 3 above). If none of the codes work, check that the infrared emitter is directly over the infrared sensor on your tuner device.
VIDEO - Editing Video Files

Parameter Key: -/--

Description Set this to On if normally, you have to press this same key on your devices remote control in order to select a channel. Set the number of digits that your device can recognize for a channel. Set this to On if normally, you have to press the Enter key on your devices remote control after you enter the channel number.

Number of digits

Key: Enter
Beginning of recording (a)
Music Video section to keep (b)

Key Delay

Change the delay between the emission of each digit of a channel. You may need to adjust this if the AV400 seems to send only half the digits of a channel or more digits of a channel.

If MP4SP detects a suitable MP3 codec on your PC, it will use it, and your resolution up to 720 x 576 (depending on frame rate) and a sound track that is stereo MP3 or WAV. In actuality, in all cases, a resolution beyond 640x480 does not add any advantage. Run the program SETUP.EXE (the Archos Installation Utility) found on the AV400 hard drive in /Data/PC Installation. Please install the programs in the following order. ADPCM codec. There are MP3 encoders (usually packaged together as an encoder and decoder) available on the Web for you to download. If you choose to use the LAME codec, make sure that you have a version by using the search terms ACM, MP3 and CODEC in your favorite web search engine. Once this MP3 codec is installed into your system, Mpeg4
This software will install the DivX Compression/Decompression onto your PC. You should shut off any anti-virus programs when installing this or other codec software. This is not a program that is run by itself. Rather, it installs background software which allows your computer to do high quality video compression. This is the MPEG4 compressed video type that as an application that allows you to play DivX videos on your PC, at the website www.divx.com. The standard version is one best suited for your AV400.
If you are unsure what codecs (audio and/or video) have been installed on your computer, you can see the list by going to the following location. For Windows XP, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties > Hardware > choose Audio Codecs, then click on Properties of all the audio codecs that are installed on your computer. Decoding of MPEG 2 MPG4 Translator. These are usually.mpg
purpose transfer and cleanup utility which has many options allowing for Archos Installation Utility, it will automatically unzip. It will prompt you to save it to C:\Program Files\VirtualDub. You should use this default directory location. Otherwise you will have to instruct the Mpeg4 translator Internet (FlaskMPEG, Rippack, etc.) that may be downloaded in order to help you is the website www.digital-digest.com.

Rotate picture 90 left

View next photo

Rotate picture 90 right

View previous photo
or BMP will be visible in the directory. The three images on the right are thumbnail sized pictures of the the picture just before and just If you are viewing photos on a television, it is recommended that you set the Image Display setting to Progressive to eliminate any possible screen menu Setup > Display.
Click the left function button #-Pic to change the number of photos in the carrousel view. Click the center function button Picture to display the picture options. Click on the right function button Hide to hide the picture name and function buttons.

14.1 Viewing Photos

When you click Enter the image in the carrousel, either alone, within a group of 4 images, or within a group of 9 images. A red rectangle will surround the selected photo. Click on Enter again to display the image in full screen. Once it is displayed as a full screen image, you can rotate it, magnify it, or set it as the AV400 screen background (Wallpaper).

14.2 Viewing a slideshow

14.3 Transferring photos to your AV400
To transfer pictures from your digital camera directly into the AV400, you will insert your digital cameras Compact Flash card* into the slot on the left side of the AV400. Insert the card when the main menu screen is displayed. 47 48

1 x 1 image

2 x 2 images

3 x 3 images

When you insert the card, the AV400 will recognize it and open up two browser windows. The left window will show the contents of your CompactFlash (CF) card* and the right window will show the contents of your AV400s hard drive. Navigate to the folder on your CF card which contains your photos (in this example ). Move to the right window (click right button) and navigate to the folder you would like to save your photos to (you can create a new folder if you need to by
BROWSER - Using the Browser
that is found on Windows based computers. That is, it is a hierarchical system which includes folders and subfolders.
you include the folders: Data, Music, Playlists, Photo, Video, and Voice.
The folders Music, Photo and Video are special folders in that the icons on the main screen lead to these folders and then places you directly in that folder. If these folders are deleted, you will be placed at the root level (highest level) of the directory hierarchy.

15.1 Navigating the Directory Structure
Just below the top status bar, you can see the path to the directory you are currently viewing. To navigate the directory structure you will use:
ENTER Open the highlighted folder (directory) or Play the
ESC/STOP Go back to the main menu.

Rename

folder.
will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see section 15.3) to enter Create: Create a new folder in the current level of the directory. You will be sent to the virtual keyboard (see section 15.3) to enter the new folder name.
15.2 Navigating the Directory Structure
Depending on where you are in the directory system, you will have the Browser. Attention, there is a setting in the Setup > System menu called. If this is set to Off By using the unique Archos double browser system, you can copy or move maximum). You simply click on the RIGHT button, and a second browser window will open. The double browser can be used in:
system setting to On. Files that it cannot play will be.

Photo View:

Left browser is an inserted memory card and right browser the AV400 hard disk. Music View: Left browser is the AV400 hard disk and right browser the music Playlist. Browser View: Two browser windows to browse two different parts of the AV400 hard disk. In the Browser mode, you can jump between the two windows using the that window is the source for the copy. The destination folder will be the Project X.doc from the HD/Data/Files from Work folder to the HD/Data/Backed up Files folder. We must start from the main screen Browser mode.
Info made, etc. Delete deleted, the AV400 will ask . Use the function keys to reply Yes or No. For folder, it will delete the entire contents of the folder. It will ask Delete folder: Use the function keys to reply Yes or No. 51 52
Connecting/Disconnecting the AV400 to/from your PC
Note that when the AV400 is connected to a computer, it will use more energy than usual. Your battery power will be consumed at a higher rate than normal. If the AV400 looses power while connected to your computer you could damage your directory structure and/or loose data. Thus, you should always use the AC adapter when connected to your computer. Be careful to understand the disconnection procedure also since disconnecting incorrectly can lead to data loss or computer/AV400 freeze up. The AV400 is not compatible with Windows NT, Windows 95, or Windows (second edition) users must download the USB driver from the Archos web site. While connected as a hard disk to your computer, the AV400 buttons are blocked and are no longer functional.
15.3 Using the Virtual Keyboard
from your computer when it is connected to the AV400. The computer keyboard is much easier. Often times, however, you are not near your computer and you must enter the text directly with the AV400. For this, the virtual keyboard screen will appear.

download the driver for this old version of Windows. Go to the section Download > Drivers and download the All USB Drivers package. When recognize the hardware and ask to have drivers installed. Carefully follow the instructions below. After installation of the drivers and restarting the 55 56
5. Windows will indicate when it has Finish. Do not unplug the AV400 from the computer yet.
2. Click on the icon to eject (unmount) the AV400 from the computer and select the Safely remove message.
Windows XP your computer. Upon restart, it will automatically recognize the connected device (the AV400). It will be seen as another hard disk in Windows Explorer.

Windows 98SE

3. There will be a message indicating that it is now safe to disconnect the AV400. You can now go ahead and unplug the USB cable from the AV400.
16.2 Disconnecting the AV400 from your Computer
WARNING: You must properly remove (unmount) your AV400 from the computer before disconnecting the USB cable to avoid loss of data or freezing the computer and/or the AV400. DO NOT SIMPLY PULL OUT THE USB CABLE AT ANY TIME!

Windows XP

To safely disconnect the AV400 hard disk, click on the system tray remove icon (green arrow as shown below) and follow the instructions. Wait until you get a message saying that you can safely unplug the device before disconnecting the USB cable. Attention: The operating system will not allow you to safely disconnect the Multimedia AV400 if you have an open
Drag the AV400 hard disk icon towards the trashcan, the trashcan will become a big arrow as shown in the screen shot to the left (Mac OS 9.x will still retain the trashcan icon. This is OK, dont worry.) Drop the hard disk icon onto the arrow (or trashcan). The hard disk icon will disappear from the desktop. You can now safely unplug the USB cable from your AV400 and/or computer.
in an application, you will have to shut down the application. Using the green disconnect arrow in the system tray will then allow you to safely disconnect the AV400.
1. The safe remove icon is in the system tray next to the clock.
Windows 2000 & Windows ME

The Sound Parameters

SETTINGS
From the home screen, select the Setup option to reveal the menu options for various settings.
Parameter Built-in Speaker Volume Bass Treble Balance Bass Boost Reset button
Description Turns on and off the built-in speaker. Same as long press on the center function button. 32 levels of volume (0-31). 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the low frequencies. 10 levels. Decreases or Increases the high frequencies. 10 levels. Favors the right or left channel of the Stereo signal 10 levels. Increases the very low frequencies Readjusts all settings to their default values

show up in Windows XP for over one minute, and then it comes up as local drive. Use DOS Utility ChkDsk as shown below.
20.4 The Computer locks-up (freezes operation) or Stops
Problem: The computer locks-up. Answer: Most likely because you did not use the green safely remove hardware icon in the system tray in order to remove the AV400 from your computer.
20.5 File issues, corrupted data, formatting, and partitioning
Problem: What do I do if I try to disconnect via the green arrow but keep getting The device Generic Volume cannot be stopped now. Try stopping the device again later. Answer: Shut off any program that might be accessing data on the AV400, including Windows Explorer. If this does not work, shut down all programs, wait 20 seconds, then try the green arrow one or two times again. If this does not work, you should shut down the computer and disconnect the USB cable once the computer is off. Problem never created or they have strange gibberish names. Answer corrupted. This could have been due to the AV400 shutting down (due to low battery power) while reading or writing to your computer via the Error Checking utility or the Check Disk utility explained at the end of this hard disk such as or System volume info. These are normal and will not harm the AV400. Problem between different computers. Will defragmenting the AV400 hard disk do any harm to it? Answer: Defragmenting the AV400 hard disk may be useful after having the defragmenter on the AV400. Make sure no other program is running while using the Windows defragmenter utility. Make sure you power the AV400 with the external power adapter during this procedure. Problem Answer
20.2 Charging and Power issues
You do not need to fully discharge the batteries before recharging them. Problem: You do not need to fully discharge the batteries before recharging them. Answer backlight goes off after 30 seconds (for MP3 music) and the user does not from a full charge, call our technical support hot-line.
20.3 AV400 locks up (freezes operation) or Stops
Problem: The AV400 locks-up. None of the buttons work. Solution: If the lock buttons is set, none of the buttons respond. Hold down the top function button for three seconds to turn off the lock buttons function. A freeze up could also be caused by electrostatic phenomena. That is, static electricity has temporarily knocked out the AV400. Hold down on the STOP/OFF button for 15 seconds and the AV400 will shut off. Restart it normally now.
screen). The browser will show a ? icon indicating that it is not one of the
Problem: I want to reformat the AV400s hard disk. Answer: You can do this, but it will erase ALL of the data on your AV400. Sometimes this may be necessary if your FAT (File Allocation Table) as explained below, you should run ScanDisk or the DOS chkdsk (Check and you are sure you must reformat the AV400 hard disk, then go to the screen Setup > System and press and hold the Right function button for three seconds. A button Format HD will appear. Use this button to format the AV400s hard drive. Remember, doing this will erase all the data on the hard disk!!! Problem: I would like to partition the AV400 hard disk. Answer: If you know how to partition a hard disk, this is OK. The AV400 will, however, only recognize a FAT32 partition. Thus it will just see and use that partition of the hard disk which is a FAT32 partition. Problem Answer to ON Photo, Music, or Video.