laptops & monitor driver
Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops?
When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs
drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is
not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
Umm.... I was just answering the question you posed. If I recall this whole
disjointed topic correctly (try to keep it to one thread in one group next time, OK?), your main problem is the video adapter, not the monitor. Still, if you reinstall the video adapter, you want to reinstall the monitor afterwards. Forgive me if it's obvious from some other post, but you HAVE visited Safe Mode and reviewed for duplicate entries? There should only be one monitor listed, for instance. But don't restrict the review to the video/monitor components only. Are there ANY other duplications that don't actually represent two duplicate components? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
PS -- Thanks for the feedback on the CDs. Nice to know someone has actually
used them and that they work correctly. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
I haven't been able to do the various things you recommend yet. I will post
a response when I finish, let you (and others who might visit this) know what happened. I have a major deadline this week that has kept me occupied through the weekend, but I will try these things the next couple days. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Umm.... I was just answering the question you posed. If I recall this whole disjointed topic correctly (try to keep it to one thread in one group next time, OK?), your main problem is the video adapter, not the monitor. Still, if you reinstall the video adapter, you want to reinstall the monitor afterwards. Forgive me if it's obvious from some other post, but you HAVE visited Safe Mode and reviewed for duplicate entries? There should only be one monitor listed, for instance. But don't restrict the review to the video/monitor components only. Are there ANY other duplications that don't actually represent two duplicate components? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
Hi Gary,
I finally got to your note. Your suggestion worked !! I went into Safe Mode, as you suggested. As you suspected for a potential problem, I had two monitors and two display adapters in the Device Manager -- both the same, but two nonetheless. So what did I do? o I deleted both Display Adapters. o I deleted both Monitors o I went into the registry, searched on 'NeoM' and other keywords related to my display adaper. I deleted all these entries. I then turned off the computer, powered up normally. The plug-n-play feature found a NeoMagic driver that I had previously added to my driver 'library'. I thought this would then repeat my problem, but it did not. Windows 98SE installed the driver and to my surprise, it worked. I turned off the computer, turned it back on, and this time plug-n-play found a Monitor driver. The screen now looks good as new, I can now use the laptop again without getting a headache. Thanks much. You're a diamond ! - BR - "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Umm.... I was just answering the question you posed. If I recall this whole disjointed topic correctly (try to keep it to one thread in one group next time, OK?), your main problem is the video adapter, not the monitor. Still, if you reinstall the video adapter, you want to reinstall the monitor afterwards. Forgive me if it's obvious from some other post, but you HAVE visited Safe Mode and reviewed for duplicate entries? There should only be one monitor listed, for instance. But don't restrict the review to the video/monitor components only. Are there ANY other duplications that don't actually represent two duplicate components? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
laptops & monitor driver
Right on, right on.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Hi Gary, I finally got to your note. Your suggestion worked !! I went into Safe Mode, as you suggested. As you suspected for a potential problem, I had two monitors and two display adapters in the Device Manager -- both the same, but two nonetheless. So what did I do? o I deleted both Display Adapters. o I deleted both Monitors o I went into the registry, searched on 'NeoM' and other keywords related to my display adaper. I deleted all these entries. I then turned off the computer, powered up normally. The plug-n-play feature found a NeoMagic driver that I had previously added to my driver 'library'. I thought this would then repeat my problem, but it did not. Windows 98SE installed the driver and to my surprise, it worked. I turned off the computer, turned it back on, and this time plug-n-play found a Monitor driver. The screen now looks good as new, I can now use the laptop again without getting a headache. Thanks much. You're a diamond ! - BR - "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Umm.... I was just answering the question you posed. If I recall this whole disjointed topic correctly (try to keep it to one thread in one group next time, OK?), your main problem is the video adapter, not the monitor. Still, if you reinstall the video adapter, you want to reinstall the monitor afterwards. Forgive me if it's obvious from some other post, but you HAVE visited Safe Mode and reviewed for duplicate entries? There should only be one monitor listed, for instance. But don't restrict the review to the video/monitor components only. Are there ANY other duplications that don't actually represent two duplicate components? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Great advice, here and in the other note Gary. I suspect my problem then, is not the 'display adapter' but the monitor ... but I may reinstall everything as you suggest. By the way ... I got your CDs for Windows 98, 98SE, etc. updates. They worked wonderfully. Thanks much for sending them to me. And I very much appreciate your wilingness to help and your (excessively in my opinion) fair price for the update CDs. Thanks again. - Scott. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The monitor in a laptop is no different, really, from stand-alones. It needs drivers. Suggest you reinstall BOTH video and monitor drivers, in that order. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "buffalo rider" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if the monitor driver matters in laptops? When we click on the 'display' icon (or function) and select Settings-Advanced, we have two places to select drivers. a. Display Adapter b. Monitor For non-laptop computers, we use both, and both make a difference. For laptop computers where the display is built in, does the monitor driver matter? Is it monitor driver bypassed? Thanks BR |
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