Do I need the Viewsonic Wizard CD?

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A friend found a Viewsonic G810 20" CRT monitor abandoned in an
apartment she rents out and gave it to me.

The manual refers to the Viewsonic Wizard CD and describes how to use
it to install the monitor. I havent' found it online yet. Is it
really necessary?

Or is all I need to do install the drivers that I did find online?

www.viewsonic.com was no help.

Thanks.

 

[VanguardLH]

A friend found a Viewsonic G810 20" CRT monitor abandoned in an
apartment she rents out and gave it to me.

The manual refers to the Viewsonic Wizard CD and describes how to use
it to install the monitor. I havent' found it online yet. Is it
really necessary?

Or is all I need to do install the drivers that I did find online?

www.viewsonic.com was no help.

All you need is the .inf file that defines the monitor. This definition
means you can select this particular brand and model of monitor in Control
Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced -> Monitor. Besides picking the
correct monitor so valid settings are used for it, an option becomes
available to hide any modes that the monitor doesn't support to ensure you
don't pick a wrong resolution+frequency combination.

I didn't see a driver download for G810 (or 810) at the Viewsonic support
site but then perhaps it is so old that they have long abandoned any support
for it. Guess you'll have to Google for it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=+viewsonic++g810++driver

First hit goes to http://driverscollection.com/?H=G810&By=ViewSonic. I've
never used or even heard of that site before now so I cannot vouch for
malware-free downloads.

 

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All you need is the .inf file that defines the monitor. This definition

I don't think I have that, unless it is in the driver files I
downloaded. They're .exe files and they're still on my flash drive,
so I can't easily check.

means you can select this particular brand and model of monitor in Control
Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced -> Monitor. Besides picking the
correct monitor so valid settings are used for it, an option becomes
available to hide any modes that the monitor doesn't support to ensure you
don't pick a wrong resolution+frequency combination.

Okay. That's good.

I didn't see a driver download for G810 (or 810) at the Viewsonic support
site but then perhaps it is so old that they have long abandoned any support
for it. Guess you'll have to Google for it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=+viewsonic++g810++driver

First hit goes to http://driverscollection.com/?H=G810&By=ViewSonic. I've
never used or even heard of that site before now so I cannot vouch for
malware-free downloads.

Thanks a lot.

 

[mm]

WinRAR can open many self-extracting archive formats, so you might be
able to pick it out that way.

I missed your post until just now. Thanks.

 

[mm]

No.

All the monitors I've installed over the years (and being IT Manager where I
work I've done quite a number) I've never used the bundled CD. Perhaps I've
been lucky, but I've yet to find a monitor where the PC didn't correctly
identify the monitor and its capabilities.

Just plug it in and let your PC detect it (Windows is very good at this, I
assume Macs would be just as good, don't know about Linux).

Thanks. Roger wilco.