Monitors

[Guest]

I actually found a Brand new monitor that was not compatable with windows
vista I thought that was kind of ridiculous ! So be aware the Optiquest Q19wb
will not work will vista I even went to the website and downloaded the so
called compitable drivers. It will make your cpu go crazy and make your
system very unstable.
zductman

 

[ChrisM]

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I actually found a Brand new monitor that was not compatable with
windows vista I thought that was kind of ridiculous ! So be aware the
Optiquest Q19wb will not work will vista I even went to the website
and downloaded the so called compitable drivers. It will make your
cpu go crazy and make your system very unstable.
zductman

Huh?

What sort of monitor is it? Why does a monitor NEED drivers? I know that
many screens come with some software, but DRIVERS?? Surely the screen is
simply driven by the graphics card? Unless it has some special
copy-protection functionality, I guess...

 

[Guest]

The monitor was a optiquest q19wb. I went to the website and downloaded the
drivers for vista but it still didnt work right so I put on a computer that I
was running xp on and it works fine.

 

[Guest]

The monitor was a optiquest q19wb. I went to the website and downloaded the
drivers for vista but it still didnt work right so I put on a computer that I
was running xp on and it works fine.

Sounds like the Vista drivers are not very good.

 

[BSchnur]

What sort of video card are you using on the Vista system?

 

[Scott]

I actually found a Brand new monitor that was not compatable with windows
vista I thought that was kind of ridiculous !

Just out of curiosity, you plugged everything in and turned it on and
found out your monitor was a problem?

The *only* monitor "drivers" I know of are for color profiles and not
all monitors even have those (for XP let alone Vista), but the
monitors still work.

The *true* driver pertains to the video (card or onboard) and not the
monitor.

I've got a ViewSonic LCD (ViewSonic makes Optiquest, BTW) and I'm not
using *any* drivers for it and it works fine.

My Video on the other hand is supplied by my NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
video card for wish drivers were supplied by Microsoft.