Samsung LW15E13C Owner's Instructions Manual

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LW15E13C/LW17E14C
(For PAL systems)
TFT-LCD TV/Monitor
Owner's
Instructions

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  • Page 1 1_LW15E13C-Ecover Page 1 Friday, July 20, 2001 3:41 PM LW15E13C/LW17E14C (For PAL systems) TFT-LCD TV/Monitor Owner’s Instructions...
  • Page 2 Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is strictly forbidden. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    2_LW15E13C-TOC.fm Page 1 Friday, July 20, 2001 3:43 PM Table of Contents Safety Instructions............2 Unpacking Your TV/Monitor .
  • Page 4: Safety Instructions

    3_LW15E13C-Safety.fm Page 2 Friday, July 20, 2001 3:44 PM Safety Instructions Before connecting the AC power cord to the DC adapter outlet, make sure the voltage designation of the DC adapter corresponds to the local electrical supply. Never insert anything metallic into the cabinet openings of the liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor;...
  • Page 5: Unpacking Your Tv/Monitor

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 3 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Unpacking Your TV/Monitor Please make sure the following items are included with your monitor. If any items are missing, contact your dealer. Driver Installation Diskette Power Cord 15-pin D-Sub Signal Cable (Not available in all locations) DC Adapter Warranty Card...
  • Page 6: Setting Up Your Lcd Tv/Monitor

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 4 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Setting up Your LCD TV/Monitor Setting up an Ergonomic Workstation Consider the advice given below before you install your monitor. TV/Monitor location Choose a position that exposes your monitor to the least reflection from lights or windows, usually at a right angle to any window.
  • Page 7: Connecting Your Lcd Tv/Monitor

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 5 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Setting up Your LCD TV/Monitor Connecting Your LCD TV/Monitor Figure 2. Cable connections ➀ ➁ ➂ 1. Connecting Computer ( A. Connect the power cord to the DC Adaptor and connect the adaptor jack to the DC 12V power connector on the back of the monitor.
  • Page 8: Connecting Tv Tuner Box

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 6 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Setting up Your LCD TV/Monitor Connecting TV Tuner Box Unplug the DC adapter. Isolate the cap of the tuner box. Connect antenna or CATV cable to “Antenna” port of the tuner box. Insert the tuner box to the area for optional tuner box on the back of the monitor.
  • Page 9: Plug And Play

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 7 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Setting up Your LCD TV/Monitor Plug and Play ® The adoption of the new Plug and Play solution eliminates complicated and time con- VESA suming setup. It allows you to install your monitor in a Plug and Play compatible system with- out the usual hassles and confusion.
  • Page 10: Getting Help

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 8 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Setting up Your LCD TV/Monitor If the monitor is functioning properly, you will see a white box with a large blue oval Samsung logo and an error messsage “Check Signal Cable.” in red color.
  • Page 11: Adjusting Your Lcd Tv/Monitor

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 9 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor User Controls Your LCD monitor allows you to easily adjust the characteristics of the image being displayed. All of these adjustments are made using the control buttons on the front of the monitor. While you use these buttons to adjust the controls, an OSD shows you their numeric values as they change.
  • Page 12: Automatic Save

    These changes are saved into a user area in the monitor. The monitor can save adjustments for up to 5 user modes. It has 9 for LW15E13C (11 for LW17E14C ) factory preset or preload modes, one for each signal frequency as listed in table 7 on page 31.
  • Page 13: Direct-Access Features

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 11 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Direct-Access Features While you are watching full screen TV or in PIP mode Valid only after performing "Channel auto program". When OSD is not on the screen, push the " "...
  • Page 14: On Screen Display (Osd)

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 12 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor ➮ Some OSD menus are disabled in gray color when they are not available in a certain mode of operation. Those menus are enabled when corresponding OSD menus are activated. On Screen Display (OSD) Accessing the menu system With the OSD off, push the Menu button to display the main OSD menu.
  • Page 15: Osd Functions And Adjustments

    4_LW15E13C-Body3-13p.fm Page 13 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:10 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor OSD functions and adjustments Function icons LANGUAGE Function name Setting bar Main menu Tool Tip Press Language Table 1. Screen controls Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus LANGUAGE...
  • Page 16: Pc Functions And Adjustments

    5_LW15E13C-Body14-17p.fm Page 14 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:11 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor PC functions and adjustments Function icons CONTRAST Function name Setting bar Tool Tip Main menu Contrast Press Menu Key Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu...
  • Page 17 5_LW15E13C-Body14-17p.fm Page 15 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:11 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus Reset Color parameters are replaced with the factory default values. IMAGE Image Lock is used to fine tune and get the best image by removing noises that create unstable IMAGE LOCK images with jitters and shimmers.
  • Page 18 5_LW15E13C-Body14-17p.fm Page 16 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:11 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus IMAGE SIZE The size of the image being displayed can be handled in several different ways. Expand1 Resize the image to fill the whole screen.
  • Page 19 5_LW15E13C-Body14-17p.fm Page 17 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:11 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus H-POSITION V-POSITION The monitor has a built-in high fidelity stereo audio amplifier. The audio circuit processes audio SOUND signal from various external input sources such as DVD, VCR, TV or PC.
  • Page 20: Tv/ Video Functions And Adjustments

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 18 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor TV/ Video functions and adjustments Function icons SET-UP Function name Channel System Setting bar Manual Tune Channel Sort Main menu Tool Tip Set-Up Press Menu Key Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and...
  • Page 21 6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 19 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus Manual Due to the weak signals or a wrong antenna Tune configuration, some of the channels may not be tuned correctly or there could be a mismatch of the channel number between a Real channel and a Program channel.
  • Page 22 6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 20 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus Channel Channel order can be re-arranged by this menu. Sort If you want to place P5 before P2, see the example below.
  • Page 23 6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 21 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Adjusting Your LCD TV/Monitor Table 1. Screen controls (Continued) Function Descriptions Main Menus and Icon Menu Sub-menus Bass Bass: Emphasize low frequency audio. Treble Treble: Emphasize high frequency audio. Surround On, Off ACTIVE The Active Area of the image being displayed can be handled in Narrow and Wide.
  • Page 24: Appendix

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 22 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix By Remote-Control “Source Control keys.” Power Video (TV/ VCR or DVD) On/Off PC on Audio PIP PC+Video PIP size Channel PIP Position Up/Down Turn on the OSD Select a function Volume Up/Down Sound mute...
  • Page 25 Stereo Note: LW15E13C/LW17E14C have an automatic stereo detection feature. Thus, depending on the types of audio, the monitor automatically changes their audio mode from Mono to Stereo or vice versa.
  • Page 26: Powersaver

    Inactive Power Green Amber Amber Blinking Amber Blinking Indicator (0.5 sec interval) (1 sec interval) LW15E13C : Power 40W (Max.) Less than 3W Less than 3W Less than 3W Consumption LW17E14C : 52W (Max.) NOTE: This monitor automatically returns to normal operation when horizontal and vertical sync return.
  • Page 27: Troubleshooting

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 25 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Troubleshooting If you have a problem setting up or using your LCD monitor, you may be able to solve it yourself. Before contacting customer service, try the suggested actions that are appropriate to your problem.
  • Page 28 NOTE: Your monitor supports multiscan display functions within the following frequency domain: Horizontal frequency: LW15E13C : 30 kHz ~ 69 kHz LW17E14C : 30 kHz ~ 81kHz Vertical frequency: 56 Hz ~ 85 Hz Maximum refresh rate:...
  • Page 29 6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 27 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Table 4. Troubleshooting – Audio and TV Problem Suggested Actions Reference No sound Ensure that the audio cable is firmly Connecting your LCD Monitor, page 5. connected to both the audio-in port on your monitor and the audio–out port on your sound card.
  • Page 30: Specifications

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 28 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Specifications Table 5. Technical and environmental specifications LW15E13C LW17E14C Panel Size 15.0” Diagonal 17.0” Diagonal Display Size 304.1 (H) x 228.1 (V) mm 338 (H) x 270 (V) mm Type...
  • Page 31 6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 29 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Table 5. Technical and environmental specifications (Continued) LW15E13C LW17E14C Power Maximum 40 W 52 W Consumption Power Saving < 3 W < 3 W Dimensions/ Unit (WxHxD) : Weight Monitor body 14.1 x 13.8 x 2.0 inch / 7.2 lbs...
  • Page 32: Pin Assignments

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 30 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Pin Assignments Table 6. 15 pin D-sub connector Separate H/V Composite H/V Sync-on-green Green Green Green + H/V Sync Blue Blue Blue GND (DDC Return) GND (DDC Return) GND (DDC Return) GND-Red GND-Red GND-Red...
  • Page 33: Display Modes

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 31 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Display Modes If the signal from the system equals to the standard signal mode, the screen is adjusted automatically. If the signal from the system doesn’t equal to the standard signal mode, adjust the mode with refering to the Videocard user guide because the screen might not display or only the power LED might be on.
  • Page 34 Table 8. PAL Broadcasting Systems Sound Stereo Channel Model Color Countries Name System System System System Germany,Austria,Swiss, CCIR Netherlands AUSTRALIA Australia Sweden,Spain,Denmark, Norway,Finland,Belgium, CCIR Iceland,Portugal,Malaysia, NICAM LW15E13C Singapore,Thailand LW17E14C ITALY Italy India,Israel,Kuwait,Jordan, Unknown CCIR Yugoslavia CCIR UK,Hongkong NICAM IRELAND Ireland English...
  • Page 35: Attaching A Wall Or Arm Mounting Device

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 33 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Attaching a wall or Arm mounting device The monitor supports VESA mounting standard for use with various VESA mounting devices. To install any VESA mounting device, please follow the instructions given. Case 1.
  • Page 36: Installing Vesa Compliant Mounting Devices

    - Philips screwdriver, four toggle bolts, 5/8in dia. Drill bit and drill. Contact Ergotron at (800) 888-8458 to purchase the triple pivot direct mount adapter and wall mount bracket kit. • LW15E13C (15") No. 47 - 007 - 099 (Pivot direct mount adapter) No.
  • Page 37: Retractable Stand

    6_LW15E13C-Body18p.fm Page 35 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:14 PM Appendix Retractable Stand NOTE: The maximum tilt angle is 15 degree to the backward direction. Please do not tilt the monitor other than specified range. Excessive force to tilt the monitor other than specified range may give permanent damage to the mechanical part of the stand.
  • Page 38: Index

    7_LW15E13C-IX.fm Page 36 Friday, July 20, 2001 4:09 PM Index Active Area 21 ON-Screen Display 12 Automatic Save 9 OSD Lock/Unlock 11 OSD Control 13 Bass 17 Brightness 14, 20 PAL Broadcasting System 32 Buzzer 13 Pan 16 Pin Assignments 30 PIP 9,17 Cable connections 5 Plug and Play 7...
  • Page 39: Regulatory Information

    Regulatory Information FCC Information The party responsible for product compliance: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD User Instructions America QA Lab of Samsung The Federal Communications Commission Radio 85 West Tasman Drive Frequency Interference Statement includes the San Jose, CA 95134 USA...
  • Page 40 8_Ebk.fm Page 1 Wednesday, August 8, 2001 4:58 PM U.S.A.: ESPAÑA: Samsung Electronics America (SEA) Samsung Electrónics Comercial Ibérica, S.A. Ciencies, 55- 400 Valley Road, Suite 201 65 (Polígono Pedrosa) 08908 Hospitalet de Llobregat Mt. Arlington, NJ 07856 (Barcelona) Tel.: 1-800-SAMSUNG (1-800-726-7864) Tel.: (93) 261 67 00...

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