How to install new Video driver?

[Jerry]

It is not the monitor driver that you need, but you need to change the
resolution in the video card setting. Check with the website of your
video card manufacturer for directions as to how to do it. I had to
manually insert that resolution (for my Nvidia video card).

Jerry

 

[tim \(not at home\)]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place, but....

I have bought a new LCD screen to add to my Laptop and all that seems to be
available now are "widescreen" ones. I've got a BenQ T201WA

The resolution that the Screen requires is 1680*1050, but all that I can
select is 1280 by 1024 or 1600 by 1200, which are the wrong aspect ratio and
all my text and pictures are squashed up.

The Screen came with a setup disk but there was nothing in the instructions
as to how to install a new driver. So I tried to update the driver from
"Display Properties" Settings tab, "Advanced", Monitor tab, "Properties",
Driver tab, "Update Driver..." and it read something off the disk but the
available resolutions haven't changed.

Does anyone know how I can install the correct driver for this size screen?

TIA

tim

 

[tim \(not at home\)]

It is not the monitor driver that you need, but you need to change the
resolution in the video card setting. Check with the website of your
video card manufacturer for directions as to how to do it. I had to
manually insert that resolution (for my Nvidia video card).

Well it's a Laptop, so I suppose that there is no 'card' as such.

Device Manager, under Display Adaptor says:

VIA/S3 UniChrome Pro IGP.

Is that what I need to update?

TIA

tim

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Well it's a Laptop, so I suppose that there is no 'card' as such.

It's a chipset, mounted on the motherboard or as a part of a larger chip,
rather than on an addon card. And it still needs drivers to function.

And the previous poster is correct - the monitor driver won't alter the
resolutions and aspect rations available from the video adapter.

Device Manager, under Display Adaptor says:

VIA/S3 UniChrome Pro IGP.

Is that what I need to update?

Yes, but the chipset - the card - may have resolution limits that do not
match the monitor.

You'll need to play with different resolutions and aspect ratios to see
what works.

Check with the manufacturer of your laptop for advice. They may have an
updated driver with a wider set of resolutions and ratios.

You may also have run into an inherent limitation of the video hardware on
our laptop, which software cannot address.

The laptop I'm writing this on, for example, a Thinkpad R31, just can't do
more than 1024x768.

HTH
-pk