Help with my Samsung 913t LCD monitor, please ...

[Guest]

My monitor will not set up properly ... all I can set is 640 by 480 pixel
resolution and Medium (16 bit) colors. Does anyone know where I can get a
driver that Vista supports?

 

[Malke]

My monitor will not set up properly ... all I can set is 640 by 480 pixel
resolution and Medium (16 bit) colors. Does anyone know where I can get a
driver that Vista supports?

This is not a function of your monitor drivers. It is a function of your
video card drivers. Go to either the video card mftr.'s website or the
OEM's website if you have that type of machine (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.)
and download/install the video card drivers for Vista.


Malke

 

[Tom Lake]

This is not a function of your monitor drivers. It is a function of your
video card drivers. Go to either the video card mftr.'s website or the
OEM's website if you have that type of machine (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.) and
download/install the video card drivers for Vista.

The wrong monitor .INF file can certainly prevent you from using the full
capabilities of the monitor. It can limit you to lower resolutions or
disallow
valid resolutions.

Tom Lake

 

[Malke]

The wrong monitor .INF file can certainly prevent you from using the full
capabilities of the monitor. It can limit you to lower resolutions or
disallow
valid resolutions.

Yes, in certain circumstances with some of the newest monitors using a
"non-standard" resolution and aspect ratio. The Samsung 913T is not one
of these. However in all the many years I've been a tech I've never had
to install a monitor driver on a Windows system. The OP's problems are
because he doesn't have the correct video card drivers installed.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Yes, in certain circumstances with some of the newest monitors using a
"non-standard" resolution and aspect ratio. The Samsung 913T is not one
of these. However in all the many years I've been a tech I've never had
to install a monitor driver on a Windows system. The OP's problems are
because he doesn't have the correct video card drivers installed.

Malke
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Thanks for the replies ... I will look into the video card drivers, however
.... the monitor was working just fine under XP. Do I need a different driver
for Vista? Or did installing Vista cause the system to choose a generic
driver instead of the original that I'd been using under XP? One last
question ... how do I determine what type video card it is .. and what's the
right driver? Thanks in advance for any assistance ... sorry to be such a
rookie at all of this ...

 

[Malke]

Thanks for the replies ... I will look into the video card drivers, however
... the monitor was working just fine under XP. Do I need a different driver
for Vista? Or did installing Vista cause the system to choose a generic
driver instead of the original that I'd been using under XP? One last
question ... how do I determine what type video card it is .. and what's the
right driver? Thanks in advance for any assistance ... sorry to be such a
rookie at all of this ...

Yes, you need drivers for all your hardware for whatever operating
system you're running. Vista is a different operating system from XP and
so the drivers that worked for XP are not what you want to use in Vista.
Do not apologize for being a "rookie". We all had to start somewhere and
people like me are here in the newsgroups because we want to help you.

Here is general information about drivers:

Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM
computer (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific
model machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers
anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor. The older Aida32 is good for this, too.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.aumha.org/free.htm - Aida32 (hosted on Jim Eshelman's site)


Malke

 

[Guest]

Okay ... I'm up and running ... An e-GeForce FX5200 nvidia graphics card
resolved all. Her PC is an older one, with only PCI slots available, so
this is the strongest (only 128 MB ), but it's really working fine. She has
Aero, and Flip 3D ... a 3.0 experience rating, and is now a "Happy Vista
Camper" ...

However ... I've still got one issue left to resolve ... our home network
has not worked since the Vista installations. Well .. it's kinda worked (all
the internet connections work, and we can share printers,) but we can't share
files or folders ...
I can see the network and the other computers, but attempting to open any
other PC's drive or folders (expect for the public ones). I've set no
passwords on any machines, and I've set maximum sharing permissions. But
still, whenever I try to access a file or folder on a networked PC, I
encounter this message --> "\\name\c: is not available. You might not have
permission to use this resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied.

I AM the "administrator of that server" ... but no matter how much I talk to
my self (user to administrator) I can't figure out how to allow the sharing
to occur.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance ... and oh yeah ... I will accept a "LEAVE ME ALONE, ONLY
ONE FIX TO A CUSTOMER!" response !!

Thanks again for all the help you've already given


Gerry

 

[koze]

Maybe the help is in here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

for other PC's

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EZOAC

Ko

 

[Malke]

Okay ... I'm up and running ... An e-GeForce FX5200 nvidia graphics card
resolved all. Her PC is an older one, with only PCI slots available, so
this is the strongest (only 128 MB ), but it's really working fine. She has
Aero, and Flip 3D ... a 3.0 experience rating, and is now a "Happy Vista
Camper" ...

However ... I've still got one issue left to resolve ... our home network
has not worked since the Vista installations. Well .. it's kinda worked (all
the internet connections work, and we can share printers,) but we can't share
files or folders ...
I can see the network and the other computers, but attempting to open any
other PC's drive or folders (expect for the public ones). I've set no
passwords on any machines, and I've set maximum sharing permissions. But
still, whenever I try to access a file or folder on a networked PC, I
encounter this message --> "\\name\c: is not available. You might not have
permission to use this resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied.

(snippage)

It isn't "one fix to a customer"! ;-) After you check out Koze's good
links, take a look also at the following general networking
troubleshooting cut/paste to see if anything is applicable to your
network since I don't know what operating systems are on your other
machines:

This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the
Network Setup Wizard on all computers, making sure to enable File &
Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn on
the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party firewall
or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Norton
2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have
third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area
Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an
IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would
substitute your correct subnet.

If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:

a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
Simple File Sharing enabled.

Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters
in your situation.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.

Malke