I just bought a 19 inch Philips LCD monitor and realized that I have two USB ports at the back of it. They even threw in a usb cable with the monitor. The problem is, I have no idea what it's supposed to do even after checking the manual. I tried connecting it to the computer and there's no response either.
It is a USB extension hub. You plug the USB cable into a USB port on your computer and then connect the type B end of the cable to the monitor. Now you can plug in a removable device like a flash drive without having to plug in from behind your computer.
You can plug USB devices (camera, etc) into them instead of having to reach down to your computer's USB ports
LED is short for Light Emitting Diode. LCD is Liquid Crystal Display. These technologies are used for making displays for several electronic devices.
Cool. Look at the video cable input. Near there is a USB port. Connect that port to a USB port on your computer and the two on the monitor will become active. A two-for-one split! Keep in mind that the speed of USBs is additive. I think a USB 2 is 48Mbps. If you connect two devices to the computer's adjacent ports, each will be 24Mbps. If you connect two to the monitor, you're getting half speed already and probably a max of 12Mbps per port. Generally, that's fast enough, but I wouldn't put a usb hard drive or scanner on there!
Typically, those act as a USB hub. If your PC is running Win2K or WinXP, and you plug the USB cable they threw in from the PC's USB port into the monitor's USB in, Windows will find the USB hub in the monitor and set everything up so you can use the two ports. If it doesn't automatically set everything up, try finding the USB drivers that came with the monitor and load the USB drivers first.
