Philips 170s4f User Manual

							Installing your LCD Monitor
Your LCD Monitor : Front View Product Description  • Connecting to Your PC  • The base  •
Getting Started  • Optimizing Performance
Front View Product Description
UP and DOWN buttons are used when adjusting the OSD of your monitor
 
LEFT and RIGHT buttons, like the UP and DOWN buttons, are also used 
in adjusting the OSD of your monitor.
BRIGHTNESS hotkey. When the UP and DOWN arrow buttons are 
pressed, the adjustment controls for the BRIGHTNESS will show up.
OK button which when pressed will take you to the OSD controls
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							POWER button switches your monitor on
Automatically adjust the horizontal position, vertical position, phase a\
nd 
clock setting.
 
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Optimizing Performance
For best performance, ensure that your display settings are set at 1024x\
768@60Hz (for14/15) or 
1280x1024, 60Hz (for17/18).l   
Note: You can check the current display settings by pressing the OK button \
once.
Go into the Product Information. The current display mode is shown on th\
e item 
called RESOLUTION.
You can also install the  Flat Panel Adjust (FP Adjust) program , a program for getting the best
performance out of your monitor. This included on this CD. Step-by-step \
instructions are provided to 
guide you through the installtion process. Click on the link to know mor\
e about this program. 
More about 
FP_setup04.exe
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							On-Screen Display
Description of the On-Screen Display • The OSD Tree
Description of the On Screen Display
What is the On-Screen Display? 
This is a feature in all Philips LCD monitors. It allows an end user to \
adjust screen performance of the 
monitors directly though an on-screen instruction window. The user inter\
face provides user-friendliness and 
ease-of-use when the user is operating the monitor.
 
Basic and simple instruction on the control keys. 
When you press the 
 button on the front control of your monitor, the On-Screen Display (OSD\
) Main
Controls window will pop up and you can then start making adjustments to\
 your monitors various features. 
Use the 
  or the keys to make your adjustments.
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The OSD Tree
Below is an overall view of the structure of the On-Screen Display. You \
can use this as a reference when 
you want to work your way around the different adjustments later on.
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							Customer Care & Warranty
PLEASE SELECT YOUR COUNTRY/AREA TO REVIEW DETAILS OF YOUR WARRANTY 
COVERAGE
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Switzerland • Spain • United Kingdom
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• Uruguay • Venezuela
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Pakistan • Philippines • Singapore • Taiwan • Thailand
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							Glossary
A B C D  E  F G H I J K  L M N O P Q R S T  U V  W X Y Z
C 
Color temperature
A way of describing the color of a radiating source in terms of the temp\
erature (in degrees Kelvin) of a black 
body radiating with the same dominant frequency as the source. 
Most Philips monitors offer the possibility of setting the color tempera\
ture to any desired value.
  
 
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D 
D-SUB
Your monitor comes with a D-Sub cable.
  
Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) specification provides a high-speed\
 digital connection for visual data types 
that is display technology independent. The interface is primarily focus\
ed at providing a connection between 
a computer and its display device. The DVI specification meets the needs\
 of all segments of the PC industry 
(workstation, desktop, laptop, etc.) and will enable these different s\
egments to unite around one monitor 
interface specification.
 
The DVI interface enables:
Content to remain in the lossless digital domain from creation to consum\
ption.
1.  
Display technology independence.2.  
Plug and play through hot plug detection, EDID and DDC2B.3.  
Digital and Analog support in a single connector.4.  
 
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E 
Energy Star Computers Programme
An energy conservation programme launched by the US Environmental Protec\
tion Agency (EPA) with the 
primary aim of promoting the manufacture and marketing of energy-efficie\
nt office automation equipment. 
Companies joining this programme must be willing to commit themselves to\
 manufacturing one or more 
products capable of going into a low -power state (< 30 W) either afte\
r a period of inactivity or after a 
predetermined time selected by the user.
 
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L 
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
An alphanumeric display using the unique properties of liquid crystal to\
 form characters. The latest flat-panel 
displays comprise a matrix of hundreds or thousands of individual LCD ce\
lls that generate text and colorful 
graphics on a screen. They consume little power though they do require e\
xternal lighting to make them 
legible to the user.
 
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U 
USB or Universal Serial Bus
A smart plug for PC peripherals. USB automatically determines resources (like driver software and bus
bandwidth) required by peripherals. USB makes necessary resources avail\
able without user intervention.
USB eliminates case angst -- the fear of removing the computer case to\
 install add-on peripherals. 
And USB also eliminates adjustment of complicated IRQ settings when inst\
alling new peripherals.
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USB does away with port gridlock. Without USB, PCs are normally limite\
d to one printer, two Com 
port devices (usually a mouse and modem), one Enhanced Parallel Port a\
dd-on (scanner or video 
camera, for example) and a joystick. More and more peripherals for mult\
imedia computers arrive on 
the market every day. With USB, up to 127 devices can run simultaneously\
 on a computer.l   
USB permits hot plug-in. Theres no need to shut down, plug in, reboot\
 and run set-up to install 
peripherals. And no need to go through the reverse process to unplug a d\
evice.l   
In short, USB transforms todays Plug-and-Pray into true Plug-and-Play\
! 
Hub
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							A Universal Serial Bus device that provides additional connections to th\
e Universal Serial Bus. 
Hubs are a key element in the plug-and-play architecture of USB. The Fig\
ure shows a typical hub. Hubs 
serve to simplify USB connectivity from the users perspective and provi\
de robustness at low cost and 
complexity. 
Hubs are wiring concentrators and enable the multiple attachment charact\
eristics of USB. Attachment points 
are referred to as ports. Each hub converts a single attachment point in\
to multiple attachment points. The 
architecture supports concatenation of multiple hubs. 
The upstream port of a hub connects the hub towards the host. Each of th\
e other downstream ports of a 
hub allows connection to another hub or function. Hubs can detect, attac\
h and detach at each downstream 
port and enable the distribution of power to downstream devices. Each do\
wnstream port can be individually 
enabled and configured at either full or low speed. The hub isolates low\
 speed ports from full speed 
signaling. 
A hub consists of two portions: the Hub Controller and Hub Repeater. The\
 repeater is a protocol-controlled 
switch between the upstream port and downstream ports. It also has hardw\
are support for reset and 
suspend/resume signaling. The controller provides the interface register\
s to allow communication to/from 
the host. Hub specific status and control commands permit the host to co\
nfigure a hub and to monitor and 
control its ports. 
Device 
A logical or physical entity that performs a function. The actual entity\
 described depends on the context of 
the reference. At the lowest level, device may refer to a single hardwar\
e component, as in a memory device. 
At a higher level, it may refer to a collection of hardware components t\
hat perform a particular function, such 
as a Universal Serial Bus interface device. At an even higher level, dev\
ice may refer to the function 
performed by an entity attached to the Universal Serial Bus; for example\
, a data/FAX modem device. 
Devices may be physical, electrical, addressable, and logical.
 
  
 
Downstream 
The direction of data flow from the host or away from the host. A downst\
ream port is the port on a hub 
electrically farthest from the host that generates downstream data traff\
ic from the hub. Downstream ports 
receive upstream data traffic.
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							Upstream 
The direction of data flow towards the host. An upstream port is the por\
t on a device electrically closest to 
the host that generates upstream data traffic from the hub. Upstream por\
ts receive downstream data traffic.
 
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V 
Vertical refresh rate
Expressed in Hz, it is the number of frames (complete pictures) writte\
n to the screen every second.
 
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