Digitus DA-70851 manual

USB to HDMI ® Adapter User ’ s Manual DA-70851[...]

1 T able of Content s 1. Introduc tion ....................................................................................................... 2 Applicatio ns ........................................................................................................ 3 Features ...........................................................................[...]

1. Introduction This USB to HDMI ® Adapter enables you to connect one more monitor , LCD or projector to a computer with a USB 2.0 port. For de sktop users adding an extra monitor via USB connection is easier than ever without having to open the computer chassis to install an internal video card. Once the installation is done, the USB-attached mon[...]

3 Applications Office workstation View your large spreadsheets across tw o screens with display continuity Multitask more effectively without overl apping windows Edit on one screen while surfing the Internet information on the other On the road Do multiple screen presentations without bringing another computer Easily provide multiple scr een exhib[...]

Package Content s Before installation, please check the items in the p ackage. The p ackage should contain the following items: USB to HDMI ® Adapter x1 Product support CD(User’s Manual) x1 U S B C a b l e x 1 Quick Installation Guide x1 System Requirement s The minimum requirements for the PC are: With Single Core CPU at 1.2GHz or higher proces[...]

5 If the PC specification is below this, performance will be lower (or CPU loading higher than acceptable). Windows ® XP For 1-2 monitors, business usage, productivity target. 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 vi deo while also targeting produ[...]

2. Inst allation On Windows 7 ® Caution: DO NOT connect the USB to HDMI ® Adapter to your com puter before you install the provided driver. Follow the procedures below to install the driver and then connect the adapter: 1. Insert the provided CD into your disc drive and installer program will run automatically. Please click on Run Setup.exe to ex[...]

7 2. When you see the License Agreement screen prompted as below, please click on I Accept to install the software 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 wi ll disappear and you will re[...]

6. When yohe followi ng window will appear. Please wait while DisplayLink software is configured for first use. Your screens may temporarily go black or flash during this process. Please click “ OK ” to sta rt to use USB to HDMI ® Adapter. 7. You can change the appearance of your displays through the Window. Moreover, additional controls ar e [...]

9 On Windows V ist a ® Caution: DO NOT connect the USB to HDMI ® Adapter to your computer before you install the provided driver. Follow the procedures below to install the driver and then connect the adapter: 1. Insert the provided CD into your disc drive and install program will run automatically. Please click on Run Setup.exe to execute the in[...]

2. When you see the License Agreement screen prompted as below, please click on I Accept to install the sof tware 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 retur[...]

11 The following window will appear. Please wa it while Disp layLink software is configured for first use. Your screens may temporarily go black or flash during this process. Please click “ OK ” to start to use USB to HDMI ® Adapter. 6. Notice ： If prompting to restart your computer, click Yes to restart or No to manually restart later. 7. Y[...]

On Windows ® XP Caution: DO NOT connect the USB to HDMI ® Adapter to your computer before you install the provided driver. Follow the procedures below to install 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[...]

13 2. Please wait while Windows configures DisplayLink Core Software . Your screens may temporarily go black or flash during this process. *Actual strings depend o n your operation syst em. These screen shots are from Wind ows ® XP and might vary slightly for each operation system. 3. Y ou must rest art your computer be fore the new setting will t[...]

On Mac Caution: DO NOT connect the USB to HDMI ® Adapter to your com puter before you install the provided driver. Follow the procedures below to install the driver 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 t[...]

15 4. Click Continue to install this sof tware. 5. Please click Continue after reading Sof tware License Agreement .[...]

6. Click Agre e to continue the installation and quit the inst aller . 7. Click Inst all to perform a standard installati on of this sof tware on the disk “ Macintosh HD ”.[...]

17 8. T ype your password to allow Installer to make changes. And click Continue Inst allation to install. 9. The installation was successful, please click Rest art to finfish installing the software.[...]

7. When finished, the installation screen will disappear and you will return to your desktop. 8. Connect the USB to HDMI ® Adapter to your com puter and monitor.[...]

19 3. Using the Adapter On Windows Display Properties Display Properties allows y ou to configuration the displa y mode, screen resolution, and physical arrangement of your monitors. Easy Setting Click on the DisplayLink Device icon and select Advanced to configuration Display Properties as above or manually setting as below description. On Windows[...]

Display Modes There are several ways you can utilize the monitor attached to the adapter . The secondary monitor can be configured to use either “mi rror mode”, “extended mode” or be the primary display as described in this section. Extend Y our Wi ndows Desktop to Secondary Monitor (Default) In this so-called “extended mode”, your disp[...]

21 Figure 1 Figure 2 Notice: The full DisplayLink User Interface as above is not supported on Windows ® 7 . Displays Configuration on Windows ® 7 should be carried out using the improved Windows Display Properties dialog box (figure1), and using the Windows-P key combination (figure2). Manually Setting Extended mode is the default setting. To set[...]

4. Drag the icons in the window at the top of the screen to ma tch the physical arrangement of your primary monitor and secondary monitor. The secondary monitor connected to the adapter may be identified as either "2" or “3”, depending on your computer, although there may not be a total of 3 screens connected. 5. Click OK to close the[...]

23 Mirror Y our Windows Desktop This mode is referred to as “mirror” or “clone” mode. In this mode, the monitor attached to the USB to HDMI ® Adapter duplicates what is on the primary display. Easy Setting Click on the DisplayLink Device icon and select Mirror to configuration the setting as above. On Windows ® 7, the DisplayL ink Device [...]

Manually Setting In mirror mode, the adapter will automatically select the settings (screen resolution, color quality and refresh rate) for the secondary m onitor . But you can manually adjust the settings as required. However , the settings of the secondary monitor ar e limited by that of the primary monitor . For example, even though your seconda[...]

25 Adjusting Resolution and Refresh Rate There are three components that make up the screen mode: Resolution: In common usage, this refers to t he number of pixels displayed on screen horizontally and vertically . Refresh rate: Measures the speed that the entir e screen is rescanned. Higher frequencies reduce flicker . Some monitors advertise the s[...]

About the resolutions and refresh rates available to users The resolutions and refresh rates avail able to the user th rough Windows are a comprise of the support from the following elements: ■ The USB display adapter ■ The primary monitor and the secondary monitor ■ The primary video card on your co mputer and installed drivers Therefore, fo[...]

27 Manually Setting 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 ends with DisplayLink Graphics Adapter . 3. To change the scree[...]

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.[...]

29 Fit to TV Function ”Fit to TV” function is for HDMI ® TV connections. A new user interface option allows the correction of overscan on TV s when using a USB to HDMI ® adapter . The”Fit to TV” function allows a user to change the size of their Wi ndows desktop to allow the entire desktop to be viewed. Setting 1. Click on the DisplayLink[...]

3. The red border shows the size of the new Windows desktop... 4. Use the "+" and "-" controls on the Fit to TV GUI to change t he size of the red border until it fits on the TV screen. Note : Finer configuration of the size of t he border can be achieved by holding down the CTRL key and clicking the “+” and “-”. Before:[...]

31 5. Once the red border is at the edges of the TV screen, click "Apply" to resize the Windows desktop. Af ter: Note : Fit to TV function only works in extend mode and does not support rotated modes.[...]

S t andby and Hibernate, Shut Down and Rest art When the adapter is connected to a computer and an external monitor , if the computer goes into standby or hibernate mode, the ex ternal monitor display goes blank. When the computer returns to an active state, the external monitor display keep s the same settings it had before the computer went into [...]

33 Disconnecting the Adapter If the adapter is unplugged from the computer , the secondary monitor goes blank. All windows and icons move to the primary screen. On reconnection of the adapter , the adapter retu rns to the same mode as it was before disconnection. However , windows and icons that were previously on the screen will not be moved back.[...]

What is Vista XDDM mode? XDDM refers to Windows ® XP Driver Mode. It is a video card driver mode used in some legacy computers that running t he 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 cu[...]

35 On Mac Managing Multiple Displays When attaching a display that the sof tware has not seen before, the display will default to being extended to the right of the main display . T o configure the settings for each of your USD attached displays, select “Displays” from the “System Preferences” Menu. This will open a “Display Preferences?[...]

Setting the Position of Displays If your computer is connected to more than tw o displays, you can specify that some are mirrored displays and others s how the extended desktop. A mirrored display shows the same content as the main displa y whereas an extended display will be an extension to your existing desktop. Y ou can arrange your displays so [...]

37 Setting the Display to Mirror / Extend mode When in Mirror mode, additional displays will display what is being shown on the primary display . Checking the “Mirror Display” on the “Arrangement” pane enables this feature. T o extend connected displays, make sure th at the “Mirror Displa y” on the “Arrangement” pane is unchecked. T[...]

Changing the Main Display Y ou can change which is the main display by moving the Menu Bar between displays. Changing the main display affects where new windows appear and the pos ition of the Dock. The “Menu Bar” cab be moved so that it is s hown on an alternative display . Clicking the white menu bar and dragging it to the des ired display wi[...]

39 V erifying the Driver Inst allation On Windows T o verify your USB display adapter driver installation, please launch Device Manager by the steps below: Open the Control Panel and double-click Uninst all a Program on Windows ® 7, Programs and Features on Windows V ista ® , and Add or Remove Programs on Windows ® XP . A string similar to Displ[...]

On Mac On Mac OS ® X you can open GO > Utilities > Sy stem Profile > Hardw are > USB > to verify if your USB HDMI Adapter is properly installed.[...]

41 Uninst all the Adapter and Driver If for any reason you want to uninstall the vi deo adapter and it s driver , please take these steps: 1. Open the Control Panel and double-click 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 DispalyL[...]

4. T roubleshooting Q1: The display on the secondary monitor is blank. A: If the monitor power LED is green (in most cases), wait a moment for the mo nitor to show the video as sometimes it takes time for the secondary monitor to show the video. Y ou can also reboot your system to tr y again. Als o make sure the computer is not in standby or hibern[...]

43 Q4: When playing the video in full screen mode, the motion is not smooth. A: T ry the following tips to improve the smoothness of the movie playback: • Reduce the resolution of the display to 640x480 or 800x600. • Use the adapter in extended mode. • Terminate any other CPU intensive appl ications running on the computer. If you still have [...]

5. S pecifications Host Interface USB 2.0 Video Interface HDMI ® Connectors Video output: HDMI ® 19 pin Female Connector Host up stream link: USB Mini-B T ype Female Connector Connectivity Up to 6 adapters on a computer RAM 8M x 16 DDR Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) Power Mode Bus-powered Power Consumption 350mA Operation System Support Windows ® XP H[...]

45 Housing ABS Plastic Dimensions 84.5 (L) x 55.5 (W) x18 (H) mm USB Cable  Separated from the body  T ype: USB A -T ype Male to 5pin Mini USB B-T y pe Male  Length: 1M Operating temperature 10-40 degree Storage temperature -10~80degree Relative Humidity < 85% non-condensing * S pecifications are subject to change without notice.[...]

6. Regulatory Compliance FCC Conditions This equipment has been tested and found to comply with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference (2) This device must accept any interfer ence received. Including interference that may cause undesired operation. Import a[...]

47 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Always read the safety instructions carefully: Keep this User’s Manual for future reference Keep this equipment away from humidity If any of the following situation arises, get the equipment che cked by a service technician: • The equipment has been ex posed to moisture. • The equipment has been dropp ed and damaged. ?[...]