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Installation Installation Installation Guide USB 2.0 Video Card GUC2015V PART NO. M0415...
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We hope you enjoy using your USB 2.0 External Video Card. Note: Your order has been carefully packaged and inspected, and we hope you are pleased with the IOGEAR product you purchased. Please inspect the contents of the package to ensure that you have received all items and that nothing has been damaged. If you discover a problem,...
Table of Contents Package Contents Windows Operations Overview Uninstalling Drivers Requirements Technical Support Supported Modes Warranty Installing the Adapter Contact...
Package Contents This package contains: 1 USB 2.0 External Video Card 1 USB 2.0 Cable 1 Installation CD 1 User Manual 1 Warranty/Registration Card * If any items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer.
Overview • The USB VGA Adapter allows you to connect an extra monitor to your desktop PC or laptop’s USB port. • The connected monitor can be confi gured to either clone your primary screen, or extend the Windows desktop allowing visibility of more applications at the same time. •...
System Requirements The USB VGA Adapter supports all analogue CRT and LCD monitors with a VGA connector. DVI- A • and DVI- I monitors can also be connected using a suitable VGA DVI converter. The USB driver software can be installed on any desktop or laptop system running Windows XP Home •...
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The minimum hardware requirements for the PC are: • PC with 1.2GHz or higher processor clock speed required. Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended • 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher (512MB Recommended) • USB 2.0 port. •...
Supported Modes Supported screen modes There are three components that make up the screen mode: Resolution: In common usage, this refers to the number of pixels displayed on screen horizontally • and vertically. Color Depth: This defi nes the number of different colors that can be shown on the screen at the •...
Installing the Adapter Installing the USB VGA Adapter The preferred method of installing the USB VGA Adapter is to install the drivers before connect- ing it to the computer. This is done as follows: 1. Insert the supplied driver CD into the CD ROM drive.
Windows Operation USB VGA Adapter Operation modes of operation, Clone and Extend are covered below. Initial Use When the USB VGA Adapter fi rst starts, it will clone the primary monitor. Changes to Clone Mode the screen mode and USB VGA Adapter Clone mode copies the primary display to operation mode can be made under the the monitor connected to the USB VGA...
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The resolution, color depth and refresh rate of the primary screen will be replicated to the monitor connected to the VGA USB VGA Adapter. If the monitor connected to the VGA USB VGA Adapter supports a lower resolu- tion than the primary display, then a part of the screen is shown on the cloned display.
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Extended Mode Click on the Monitor connected to the “USB Display Adapter (Newnham)” and ensure that Extended mode extends the desktop across the “Extend my Windows desktop onto this multiple monitors. This provides a number of monitor” is checked. The orientation of the advantages to increase productivity: screens can also be adjusted by dragging the location of the blue screens to match the...
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The resolution and color depth of the extended monitor can also be set. A list of supported modes of the USB VGA Adapter can be found in section 2.4. The listed modes will be a com- bination of the supported modes of the monitor and the USB VGA Adapter.
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USB VGA Adapter behavior with standby and hibernate modes If the PC that the USB VGA Adapter is con- nected to is placed into standby or hibernate mode, the display will go blank. When the PC is again powered up, the connected display will return to the connected monitor in the same mode as it was before stand by or hibernation.
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Using multiple USB VGA Adapters Unplugging the USB VGA Adapter If the USB VGA Adapter is powered off or It is possible that multiple USB VGA the USB cable is removed from the com- Adapters are being used, for example one puter, the display will blank.
Uninstalling Drivers Removing the USB VGA Adapters The USB VGA Adapter software can be removed from the “Add or Remove Programs” utility under the Windows control panel. • Open “Add or remove programs” • Find the “USB Display Adapter” entry and click on “Remove” •...
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