Device or hardware To Move Monitor In And Away

[Joe Wood]

How do those attach to back of the monitor, it looks like 4 screws? How do I know I won't screw in to something important and damage it, like the back of the screen?

[Anuj Prateek]

How do those attach to back of the monitor, it looks like 4 screws? How do I know I won't screw in to something important and damage it, like the back of the screen?

These are VESA mount. Monitor will have matching screw holes on the back. Similar to how TVs have.
If monitor does not support vesa mount then, I am not sure how to hand it.

[Erik Loza]

Joe, as Anuj mentioned, most contemporary monitors will have a universal four-hole mounting flange on the back. Like so….

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Erik

[Joe Wood]

yeah I just ordered a new monitor and an arm, checked to see the arm had those holes, properly spaced

[Derek Meyer]

Most desktop monitors and arms will have either 75mm or 100mm spacing of the holes. Some larger mounts and screens, like large TV's, will have 200mm spacing. The Ergotron LX arms have both 75mm and 100mm spaced holes on their mounting plates, as do may other brands. You should have no trouble.

[Kev Williams]

The last 3 monitors I've bought have only a stand, no screw mounting...

[Jim Becker]

The last 3 monitors I've bought have only a stand, no screw mounting...

Many, if not most of them have the VESA standard mounting provision hidden, either under the OEM stand mounting on the back of the monitor or behind a removable panel. But it's easy to check for this feature when buying the monitor as it should be listed in the specifications. It's rare at this point for a decent monitor to not have this feature; same for pretty much any flat screen TV, too.

[Erik Loza]

My wife had some Dell monitors a few years back that had no VESA holes. Just some proprietary stand. I believe you can still get universal adapters to attach them to the VESA flange. I have something similar for holding my ipad on my three-monitor mount.

Erik