Q-See MODEL QC40196 User Manual

CHAPTER 5  MENUS

The settings in this menu cover user accounts, hard disk management, video display, and 
system maintenance.
 

 Reformatting the hard drive will erase all recorded events.

This displays some of the same information found in the 

HDD Info window in the Info menu 

(see Section 5.2) but this window allows you to make additional settings.

 The drive name and status is displayed. 
The status indicators are: 

Clicking on Alarm Set opens the Abnormality window which is covered immediately 
following this section.
Alarm Release – this turns off any disk alarm that may be occurring.
You can set the hard drive to four states:

O  Drive is operating normally. 

X  Indicates an error

Hard drive not installed

Hard drive is damaged

Read/Write

Normal operation. The device records (writes) files to disk and plays (reads) 
them.

Read Only

No more files can be recorded onto the drive, but existing files can be viewed.

Format

Reformats the hard drive.

Recover

If you are having problems with the hard drive, including corrupted files, 
selecting Recover causes the drive to re-set, but does not erase its contents.

No changes will take place unless the Execute button is pressed once you’ve made your 
selection. The drive’s status will be displayed next to the Type heading below the pull-downs. 
If you make changes and press Execute, the DVR will restart once you press OK to exit. You 
cannot right-click out of the menu.

This window allows you to set up alarms for disk and system disconnection errors as well as 
how these alarms are handled. Each type of alarm can be independently enabled along with 
what events that type of alarm will trigger.

Event type – Chose from No Disk, Disk Error, 

Disk No Space, Net Disconnected 
and IP Conflict. 

Alarm Out – The alarm can be sent to up 

to three external alarm devices 
connected to the DVR

Latch – This is the “hold time” that the DVR 

will wait before issuing another alarm. 
The delay can be set to between 1 to 
300 seconds (5 minutes).

Show Message – When enabled, this will 

display the event notification on the 
DVR’s screen.

Alarm Upload – This will send the alarm signal to a network, including an alarm monitoring 

center.

Send E-mail – this will send an e-mail notification to the recipient address set up in the 

Network menu (see Section 1.2 Advanced Network Setup in the Remote 
Monitoring Guide).

Alarm configuration is covered in Chapter 7. This window allows you to quickly change the 
operating mode of connected alarms – Schedule, Manual (on) or Stop (off) - as well as 
showing the status of any connected alarms. 

 You can turn change the mode of the alarms 
individually or all at once by clicking the circle 
in the All column. In addition to activating 
them to operate based according to their 
schedule, you can turn them on or off. This 
will override the scheduling set up in Section 
7.3 and elsewhere.
If alarms are properly connected, the 
Status indicator boxes for that alarm will be 
highlighted.