Adding a generic monitor

[Brian S. Paskin]

Hi All,

I built a new PC for my mother and installed Vista Home on the
system. Everything worked fine at my place, but when she plugged in
system at her place she receives a message that the display size is
not supported. Booting in safe mode works, but the Vista pops up a
message about unknown hardware. The monitor is a Dell E171Fp. There
is no monitor in the device manager.

Since Dell does not have a driver for this monitor, would it be better
to add a generic monitor? Add how would I add a generic monitor?

Thanks, Brian

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Try using an XP driver:
http://support.euro.dell.com/suppor...atid=&impid=&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=56102

 

[ato_zee]

Since Dell does not have a driver for this monitor, would it be better
to add a generic monitor? Add how would I add a generic monitor?

If it's any help, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate with an old 17 inch
CRT monitor and a junkbox PCI card, just to get it up and running,
as a temporary measure.
Card a 4mb PCI Matrox Millennium II, Vista quite happy with it,
shows it as a PCI graphics adapter, as does BIOS. No problems.
It supports 1024 x 768 resolution.