Tuesday, January 15, 2008

How to Rotate the Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24” LCD

This post is about how to “mod” your Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24" LCD Monitor so you can rotate, twist, and turn it from landscape to portrait mode. In other words, how to make it go from horizontal to vertical.

This blog is random on top of random.

Your Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24" LCD Monitor looks like this:

But you want it to look like this:

I am not responsible if you break your monitor following these directions.

Step 1: Put the monitor face down.Step 2: Remove the four screws from the back of the monitor.
Step 3: Remove the stand from the monitor.

Step 4: Turn the stand around and remove the one screw.

Here's a close up view of the screw:

This is what it should look like after you remove the screw:
Step 5: Put the stand back on the monitor and screw the four screws back in. Put the cords to the right.


Step 6: rotate monitor

I make no guarantee that your monitor is now stable. Heck, I'm scared to leave mine vertical, but that's all up to you. If you come back home with your monitor on the ground, don't blame me. Samsung didn't give us this option for a reason.

You also probably need to view your video card options on how to rotate your display, but I'm sure you're smart enough to figure that out.

Go buy it from Amazon now.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does the monitor rotate both ways?

Anonymous said...

niiiicee thanks... i do alot of coding and portrait view is very useful !!!

1200x1920 is huge in vertical!

lots of lines of text!

NotEvenWater said...

The monitor only turns one way: clockwise 90 degrees.

Anonymous said...

ANYONE KNOWS HOT TO CONFIGURE IT VERTICALLY FROM MAC OSX 10.4.11?

Dave said...

Thank you for this article; I've been wanting to do this for a while and didn't have the chutzpah to just take of the stand. Stupid Samsung; the stand and monitor was clearly designed to rotate and then artificially disabled for some unknown reason.