Gigabyte P27 User manual

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Congratulations on your purchase of the GIGABYTE Notebook P27!

This Manual will help you to get started with setting up your notebook. For more detailed

information, please visit our website at http://www.gigabyte.com. All specifications are subject

to the manufacturer's conguration at the time of shipping and may change without prior notice,

written or otherwise.

To install the battery please follow these steps:

1Insert the battery pack into the compartment.

2Remember to slide the switch to the "Lock" position.

1Connect the the power cord to the AC adapter.

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

3Connect the power cord to the power outlet.

Using GIGABYTE Notebook for the First Time

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Switching on the Power:

After you turn on the P27 for the very rst time, do not turn it off until the operating system has

been congured. Please note that the volume for the audio will not function until Windows®Setup

has completed.

Booting Up the P27 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®Operating System.

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Top & Front View

Left View

1 2

8 7

3 5

1 2 6

1Webcam Status LED Indicator

2Webcam

3Display

4VGA Button 

5LED Indicators 

6Keyboard

7Microphone

8Touchpad

9LED Indicators 

Hotkey Button 

Power Button 

Speakers

* Refer more information on page 5

1Kensington Lock Slot

2USB 2.0 Port

3S/PDIF-Out Jack

4Microphone Jack

5Headphone Jack

6Optical Disc Drive

Your GIGABYTE Notebook Tour

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Rear & Bottom View

Right View

2 5431

1 2

1Multi-in-1 Card Reader

2USB 3.0 Port x 2

3Combined eSATA/

USB 3.0 Port

4HDMI Port

5Ethernet Port

1D-sub (VGA) Port

2DC-in Jack

3Component Bay Cover

4HDD Bay

5Battery

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The LED indicators on the computer display helpful information about the current status of the

computer.

Button & Indicator Icon Light Color Description

VGA Button 

Green UMA Mode Activated

Orange Optimus Mode Activated

LED Indicators 

Orange NVIDIA Discrete GPU (dGPU) Activated

Green Intel Integrated GPU (iGPU) Activated

White Hard Disk Activity

Green Airplane Mode is ON

(the WLAN & Bluetooth Modules are OFF)

LED Indicators 

Orange AC/DC Power is Plugged In

Green The Computer is On

Blinking

Green The Computer is in Sleep Mode

Orange The Battery is Charging

Green The Battery is Fully Charged

Blinking

Green

The Battery Has Reached Critically

Low Power Status

Green Number Lock is Activated

Green Caps Lock is Activated

Green Scroll Lock is Activated

Hotkey Button 

N/A Webcam

ON/OFF

N/A Mute Toggle

ON/OFF

N/A Airplane Mode

ON/OFF

Power Button White The Computer is Powered On

Hot Key Buttons & LED Indicators

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The computer employs hotkeys or key combinations to access most of the computer’s controls like

screen brightness and volume output.

To activate hotkeys, press and hold the <Fn> key before pressing the other key in the hotkey

combination.

Hotkey Function Description

Fn + ~ Playback Media Playback control.

Fn + F1 Touchpad Toggle Turn the internal touchpad ON/OFF

Fn + F2 LCD Toggle Turn LCD OFF

(Press a key to or use TouchPad to turn on)

Fn + F3 Speaker Toggle Turn the sperker ON/OFF

Fn + F4 Sleep Toggle Put the computer in Sleep mode

Fn + F5 Volume Down Decrease the sound Volume

Fn + F6 Volume Up Increase the sound Volume

Fn + F7 Display Toggle Switch display output between the display screen

, external monitor (if connected) and both.

Fn + F8 Brightness Down Decrease the screen brightness

Fn + F9 Brightness Up Increase the screen brightness

Fn + F10 Webcam Turn the internal webcam ON/OFF

Fn + F11 Airplane Mode Toggle Turn the Airplane Mode ON/OFF

Fn + F12 Keyboard Backlight

Toggle Turn the keyboard backlight ON/OFF

Pressing the hot keys to adjust BIOS setup, system recovery and boot option menu.

Hotkey Function Description

F2 BIOS setup Enter BIOS setup

F9 system recovery Enter system recovery

F12 boot option Enter boot option menu

Hotkeys

System Setup

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• Press F2 when computer starts to Enter BIOS

setup utility.

• Go to Advanced > SATA conguration.

• Change "SATA Mode selection" from "AHCI"

to "RAID".

• Press F10 to save and exit. The system will

restart automatically.

• Once the system restarts. Go to "All Apps"

found at the bottom of the screen on Windows

8 and execute Intel Rapid Storage program.

• You will see the Intel Rapid Storage

Technology Screen, Click> Create.

• Under Select Volume Type choose Optimized

disc performance (RAID 0/1), Click > NEXT.

• Under Congure Volume you may set Name

to your preferred name and select both

controllers.

• Click > Next. You will see Confirm Volume

Creation. Click > Create volume.

• Wait until the system migration is complete

and restart the laptop.

WARNING

●Please backup your data before you build and run RAID 0/1 on your system.

●RAID 1 needs two storage drives of the same specication and capacity in your laptop.

●RAID 0 needs two storage drives of the same specification in your laptop. Different capacity is

acceptable.

Setup Your System for RAID 0/1

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8Smart USB Backup Guide (Original: Recovery Image USB)

>20G

• Please plug in the USB disk which is at least

20GB in capacity to make the original image

(backup the data in USB rst. All data will be

eliminated during the creation of recovery

USB disk)

• Insert the driver disk to your optical

drive and run the install of “Smart USB

Backup” (for none-ODD model, please

use USB ODD device or download from

http://www.gigabyte.com

• Run the “Smart USB Backup” after nishing

the install.

• Select your USB disk from the drop-down list

and start to create the recovery USB disk.

• The window will pop out when the creation of recovery disk is done.

• Please press F12 on starting the system when you need to restore the system. Select

“boot from recovery USB disk” and the system will be restored.

• The time needed for restore will be around 30 mins(time needed may vary by USB disk

model) .

WARNING

●You can backup original recovery image through this application in case of losing by device damage.

●You can backup original recovery image to USB disk and restore the system if any storage system

replacement with the recovery USB disk.

●Before you restore the system through the recovery USB disk, please make sure that you have already

made the backup of your data.

●Please DO NOT shut down or un-plug the system when performing backup through recovery USB disk.

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System Recovery (Restore your laptop operating system)

When something is going wrong with the laptop operating system, the storage of the laptop has

a hidden partition containing a full back up image of the operating system that can be used to

restore the system to factory default settings.

All ready to go

Make sure your PC is plugged in. This will take a few minutes.

Recovery Guide

Note

˙If the storage has been switched or the partition deleted, the recovery option will no longer be

available and a recovery service will be needed.

˙The recovery function is only available on devices with O/S preinstalled. Devices with DOS do not

have the recovery function.

Launch System Recovery

The system recovery feature is preinstalled before the laptop is shipped from the factory. The

option menu allows you to launch the Windows recovery tool to reinstall the operating system to

factory default.

The brief introduction below will show you how to start the recovery tool and restore your system.

Windows 7 Recovery Guide

Caution



Once the “Recovery” is selected, your personal

data and les will be deleted after the laptop starts

restoring, and the operating system will be reset to

factory default settings.

The recovery will be activated and you will see the option

buttons on the window. Click on “Recovery” to start it.

Turn off and restart the laptop.

During the laptop turn on process, press and hold F9

key to launch the tool.

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