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USB to HDMI

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 Adapter 

 

 

User’s Manual 

DA-70851

 

 

Summary of Contents for DA-70851

Page 1: ...USB to HDMI Adapter User s Manual DA 70851 ...

Page 2: ...esh Rate 25 Configure the components 26 Fit to TV Function 29 Standby and Hibernate Shut Down and Restart 32 Inferred Modes 32 Disconnecting the Adapter 33 Using Dual Adapters 33 On Mac 35 Managing Multiple Displays 35 Setting the Display Resolutions and Rotation 35 Setting the Position of Displays 36 Display Positions 36 Setting the Display to Mirror Extend mode 37 Changing the Main Display 38 Co...

Page 3: ... brought by an add on monitor The most obvious one is that you get more desktop area to have more applications visible at one time For example you may work on one monitor while your family watching video on the other No more stacking windows within the confines of a single display Or you may span an application e g spreadsheets across two sides of displays What s more the adapter is hot pluggable ...

Page 4: ...on Type documents on one screen while viewing reference material on the other Compare two documents simultaneously across two screens Financial analysis Have one monitor per data stream View charts and live data at the same time Entertainment View videos TV on one screen and reviews on the other Get additional perspectives when playing games Features Add on monitor LCD or projector through a singl...

Page 5: ...on family or AMD K6 Athlon Duron family or compatible processor 512MB memory At least one USB 2 0 port 30MB of available disk space Windows XP Home or Professional SP2 or SP3 Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 32 bit or 64 bit and Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit Supports all Intel based Macs Including Snow Leopard 10 6 2 Leopard 10 5 8 Tiger 10 4 11 Super VGA 800 x 600 or higher resolution monitor To play DVD on...

Page 6: ...et This may not provide full frame rate DVD playback at full screen 1 2GHz Single Core CPU 512MB memory For 3 monitors where 1 could run DVD video while also targeting productivity and business apps Will support only 1 video of DVD resolution at full screen 1 8GHz CPU 1GB memory For 6 screen where 1 screen can run full screen DVD video 1 6GHz Dual Core 1GB memory ...

Page 7: ...o your disc drive and installer program will run automatically Please click on Run Setup exe to execute the install program Note If the installer program doesn t run automatically please locate and double click on the Setup exe file in the Driver folder to launch the setup program If you encounter a User Account Control dialog box when attempting to install a program enter an administrator passwor...

Page 8: ...re for USB display adapter 3 Please wait while Windows configures DisplayLink Core Software Your screens may temporarily go black or flash during this process 4 When finished the installation screen will disappear and you will return to your desktop 5 Connect the USB to HDMI Adapter to your computer and monitor ...

Page 9: ...rough the Window Moreover additional controls are available in Windows 7 Orientation Portrait landscape rotated portrait rotated landscape 8 To control the behavior of an attached DisplayLink device or screen it is possible to use Windows Key P to display a menu and cycle through it to allow Disconnect Projector Duplicate Extend Projector Only Actual strings depend on your operation system These s...

Page 10: ...r disc drive and install program will run automatically Please click on Run Setup exe to execute the install program Note If the installer program doesn t run automatically please locate and double click on the Setup exe file in the Driver folder to launch the setup program If you encounter a User Account Control dialog box when attempting to install a program enter an administrator password or cl...

Page 11: ...e for USB display adapter 3 Please wait while Windows configures DisplayLink Core Software Your screens may temporarily go black or flash during this process 4 When finished the installation screen will disappear and you will return to your desktop 5 Connect the USB to HDMI Adapter to your computer and monitor ...

Page 12: ...o manually restart later 7 You will see the DisplayLink Manager Icon in system tray that looks like a monitor as below Click on the icon to bring up the menu Actual strings depend on your operation system These screen shots are from Windows Vista and might vary slightly for each operation system Extend Mode The screen is part of the extended desktop Mirror Mode The screen copies the contents of th...

Page 13: ...l the driver and then connect the adapter 1 Insert the provided CD into your disc drive You may see the License agreement screen prompted as below Please click on I Accept to start the Driver installation Note If the installer program doesn t run automatically please locate and double click on the Autorun exe file in the CD to launch the install program ...

Page 14: ... new setting will take effect 4 When finished the installation screen will disappear and you will return to your desktop 5 Connect the USB to HDMI Adapter to your computer and monitor 6 You will see the DisplayLink Manager Icon system tray that looks like a monitor as below Click on the icon to bring up the menu Extend Mode The screen is part of the extended desktop Mirror Mode The screen copies t...

Page 15: ...and then connect the adapter 1 Insert the provided CD into your disc drive Locate and double click the Driver folder Mac folder DisplayLink Installer 1 6b3 dmg to launch the setup program 2 Select DisplayLink Software Installer to begin installing the DisplayLink Driver on your Mac 3 When the following Window appears please click Continue to install the driver ...

Page 16: ...15 4 Click Continue to install this software 5 Please click Continue after reading Software License Agreement ...

Page 17: ...6 Click Agree to continue the installation and quit the installer 7 Click Install to perform a standard installation of this software on the disk Macintosh HD ...

Page 18: ...17 8 Type your password to allow Installer to make changes And click Continue Installation to install 9 The installation was successful please click Restart to finfish installing the software ...

Page 19: ...7 When finished the installation screen will disappear and you will return to your desktop 8 Connect the USB to HDMI Adapter to your computer and monitor ...

Page 20: ...Advanced to configuration Display Properties as above or manually setting as below description On Windows 7 the DisplayLink Device icon will be hidden Please click the arrow sign and right click the DisplayLink Device icon to select Advanced Manually Setting Position the mouse anywhere on your computer desktop right click and select Screen Resolution on Windows 7 Personalize Display Settings on Vi...

Page 21: ...n Extend Your Windows Desktop to Secondary Monitor Default In this so called extended mode your display will be spread over the secondary monitor s This mode allows you to perform multiple tasks more effectively without overlapping windows Easy Setting Click on the DisplayLink Device icon and select Exchange or Extend to Right Left Above Below to configuration the setting as above or manually sett...

Page 22: ... the adapter to use or restore extended mode follow these steps 1 Position the mouse anywhere on your computer desktop right click and select Screen Resolution on Windows 7 Personalize Display Settings on Windows Vista or Properties Settings on Windows XP 2 In the Display drop down menu select the option with the string DisplayLink Graphics Adapter 3 Check the Multiple Displays Extend these displa...

Page 23: ... may not support display on the extended desktop Cursor disappeared If you re in extneded mode but the secondary monitor is not connected the desktop still pans to the secondary monitor and it s possible that your cursor has moved to the extended desktop so that you cannot find it on the primary display To solve the problem in such a case connect the secondary monitor to the adapter or keep moving...

Page 24: ...ect Mirror to configuration the setting as above On Windows 7 the DisplayLink Device icon will be hided Please click the arrow sign and right click the DisplayLink Device icon to select Advanced Or Position the mouse anywhere on your computer desktop right click and select Screen Resolution It is possible to use Windows Key P to display a menu and cycle through it on Windows 7 to allow Disconnect ...

Page 25: ...n your computer desktop right click and select Screen Resolution on Windows 7 Personalize Display Settings on Windows Vista or Properties Settings on Windows XP 2 In the Display drop down menu select the option ends with DisplayLink Graphics Adapter 3 Check the This is my main monitor box on Windows 7 Windows Vista or Use this device as the primary monitor box on Windows XP On some PCs and laptops...

Page 26: ...not advertise the supported modes the adapter software chooses a set of common screen modes for the monitor The software supports the modes listed below Color Depth Resolution Name Refresh rates available at 16 bit color quality Refresh rates available at 32 bit color quality 640x480 VGA 60 72 75 85 60 72 75 85 800x600 SVGA 56 60 72 75 85 56 60 72 75 85 1024x768 XGA 60 70 75 85 60 70 75 85 1280x72...

Page 27: ... unsupported mode which might damage it If cloning the primary display the video component will try to use the preferred monitor mode In some cases this may not be the most appropriate mode for the cloned desktop It is recommended that the primary display resolution be changed to closer match the default resolution of the secondary monitor Configure the components To configure the three components...

Page 28: ...nu select the option ends with DisplayLink Graphics Adapter 3 To change the screen resolution or select those options on the screen Be sure to select one of the supported resolutions and color quality numbers in the table above For a secondary monitor you can also select any resolution or color quality supported by that monitor Screen Resolution The resolution will be depends on your computer sett...

Page 29: ...4 To change the refresh rate click Advanced and then click Monitor 5 Select a refresh rate from the Screen refresh rate drop down list and then click Apply 6 Click OK to close the settings screen ...

Page 30: ...f overscan on TVs when using a USB to HDMI adapter The Fit to TV function allows a user to change the size of their Windows desktop to allow the entire desktop to be viewed Setting 1 Click on the DisplayLink Device icon and select Fit to TV to enable this function 2 To configure Fit to TV the following interface appears ...

Page 31: ...dows desktop 4 Use the and controls on the Fit to TV GUI to change the size of the red border until it fits on the TV screen Note Finer configuration of the size of the border can be achieved by holding down the CTRL key and clicking the and Before ...

Page 32: ...31 5 Once the red border is at the edges of the TV screen click Apply to resize the Windows desktop After Note Fit to TV function only works in extend mode and does not support rotated modes ...

Page 33: ...login screen appears on the primary computer monitor not the external monitor If the computer is shut down restarted and logged in again the secondary monitor returns to the same mode as it was before shutdown Inferred Modes Some modes in the DisplayLink GUI are shown with around them This occurs when connecting a monitor with a preferred mode higher than the maximum supported resolution of the Di...

Page 34: ...ter to your computer 2 Then connect the second adapter to your computer The system will automatically complete the installation While two adapters are connected to a computer in most cases both adapters supports extended and mirror modes The only exception is on Windows Vista XDDM mode as described below Limitation for dual adapters on Windows Vista Windows 7 in XDDM mode In this mode one extended...

Page 35: ...ning the new generation Vista OS It provides an interface similar to Windows XP user Interface on Windows Vista and one of its characteristics is that it doesn t support Windows Aero interface To see current display video driver mode right click Computer on the desktop and select Device Manager Then expand the Display adapters item ...

Page 36: ... Display Preferences Windows on to the main display Setting the Display Resolutions and Rotation To change the display s resolution select an available resolution from the Display Preferences windows of the display you wish to change The resolutions available depend on both the DisplayLink enabled product and the capabilities of the connected display If you wish to rotate your display you can conf...

Page 37: ...on to your existing desktop You can arrange your displays so that they match the physical layout of your displays by selecting the Arrangement pane within Display Preferences This ensures that you can easily navigate between all connected displays Display Positions To move the position of a display click and hold the display you wish to move then drag it to the desired position The display will be...

Page 38: ...irror Display on the Arrangement pane enables this feature To extend connected displays make sure that the Mirror Display on the Arrangement pane is unchecked To work with both extended and mirrored displays turn off mirroring then in the Arrangement pane press and hold cmd and alt and drag and drop the display uour wish to mirror over the primary display ...

Page 39: ...ects where new windows appear and the position of the Dock The Menu Bar cab be moved so that it is shown on an alternative display Clicking the white menu bar and dragging it to the desired display will perform this action Configuring Display from the Menu Bar You can also configure displays by clicking the display icon in the menu bar ...

Page 40: ...lick Uninstall a Program on Windows 7 Programs and Features on Windows Vista and Add or Remove Programs on Windows XP A string similar to DisplayLink Core Software and DisplayLink Graphics should be displayed If there is a question or exclamation mark next to that item then the driver is not properly installed Please delete the item unplug the adapter and repeat the installation steps ...

Page 41: ...On Mac On Mac OS X you can open GO Utilities System Profile Hardware USB to verify if your USB HDMI Adapter is properly installed ...

Page 42: ...ick Uninstall a Program on Windows 7 Programs and Features on Windows Vista and Add or Remove Programs on Windows XP 2 Select DisplayLink Graphics or DispalyLink Core Software and click Uninstall or Remove 3 Click Yes to confirm the removal During the removal process a couple of DOS windows will pop up 4 Click Yes to restart your computer and then unplug the adapter now ...

Page 43: ...on is properly made If problem still exists uninstall the driver unplug the adapter and reinstall the driver to try again Q2 The secondary monitor is flickering A This is usually caused by a low refresh rate To solve this problem In mirror mode increase the refresh rate of the main monitor This will in turn increase the refresh rate of the secondary monitor In extended mode increase the refresh ra...

Page 44: ...cing the hardware acceleration level of the primary display NOT the secondary monitor to levels 1 2 or 3 and restarting the media player The hardware acceleration can be found by right clicking on your desktop and click Properties Settings Advanced Troubleshoot Some players use this setting even when playing on a different display The video playback may be unusual when the secondary monitor is mir...

Page 45: ...w Leopard 10 6 2 Leopard 10 5 8 Tiger 10 4 11 Supported Modes Extended Desktop Default Mirrored Desktop Primary Display Resolutions Refresh rate and color depth Color Depth Resolution Name Refresh rates at 16 bit color quality Refresh rates at 32 bit color quality 640x480 VGA 60 72 75 85 60 72 75 85 800x600 SVGA 56 60 72 75 85 56 60 72 75 85 1024x768 XGA 60 70 75 85 60 70 75 85 1280x720 720p 60 60...

Page 46: ... H mm USB Cable Separated from the body Type USB A Type Male to 5pin Mini USB B Type Male Length 1M Operating temperature 10 40 degree Storage temperature 10 80degree Relative Humidity 85 non condensing Specifications are subject to change without notice ...

Page 47: ...ority to operate the equipment Use an approved phone set CE This equipment is in compliance with the requirements of the following regulations EN 55 022 CLASS B WEEE Information For EU European Union member users According to the WEEE Waste electrical and electronic equipment Directive do not dispose of this product as household waste or commercial waste Waste electrical and electronic equipment s...

Page 48: ...en exposed to moisture The equipment has been dropped and damaged The equipment has obviously signed of breakage The equipment has not been working well or you cannot get it to work according to the User s Manual COPYRIGHT This document contains proprietary information protected by copyright All rights are reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced by any mechanical electronic or other mean...

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