HOW TO: Samsung 245BW Portrait Rotation

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it is tweaking

Anyway. This morning I really wanted to put my monitor into portrait mode for photoshop use and I thought it should be able to do it as most monitors this size do.

So I pulled it out a little bit and tried turning it. I could feel it give a tiny bit, maybe a degree or two, but I could feel it hitting a stop. So I got industrious. I unhooked my monitor and laid it flat on my bed. In the end I accomplished my goal, so read on.

The first step is to get your monitor laying face down on a soft surface so that the back is accessible. Then get yourself a medium sized phillips screw driver. Unscrew the four screws that are holding the stand on. Make sure to support the stand while unscrewing them just to make sure nothing is stressed to much.

Now you can removed the stand, this is what we need. Let the monitor lay. On the stand look to the side that normally is inaccessable as it faces the monitor when attached. There is a small black screw off by itself. Remove this with your screw driver.

You can now reattach the stand to the monitor, hook all your cables back up, and enjoy. Your monitor can now go into portrait mode. You will notice samsung doesn't ship their magic rotation software with this monitor, but not to worry.

Most every graphics driver I'm aware of supports screen rotation. I have a GeForce 8600GT and for me all I had to do was start the 8600's control panel and under screen rotation set it to inverted portrait mode and click apply. After that I was cocked and locked.