Vista - Acer AL2216W drivers

Guys, I need help finding x64 drivers for my Acer AL2216W, I have googled it but to no avail and it is the only thing giving me an eye sore when I go into my Device Manager

Thanks

It isn't so much a driver as a color profile (ICM file), and as such doesn't really matter whether it is 32 or 64 bit. Just download from here,

AcerPanAm.com/canada

extract it somewhere, and use the update driver function in Device Manager for the monitor; when it asks select "let me choose" and point it to the INF in the folder you extracted.

Stormy, Thanks, I already got that but it doesn't do anything, it leaves the same two monitors in the device manager. One is a P&P Generic monitor and the other one is Non-P&P monitor (I think this one is for my TV).

I will try it again, perhaps I did it wrong the first few times. I know I was one frustated dude the first couple of days with all the drivers and the way you have to install them on Vista.

i am having what seems to be the same problem
i have the same monitor and my computer is only recognizing it as a generic non PNP monitor
i dont know if this has something to do with my graphics proc or the drivers (this whole problem seemed to start when i updated the drivers, i rolled the drivers back and it ddnt change)
please help, my resolution is stuck at 1024 by 768

monitor shouldnt matter much, the one taking care of the resolution should be the video card. If the video card's driver is installed it should show in the device manager under "display adapters", if it is not installed it shows under "other devices".

post what you can see there

I am having the same problem

video card: nvidia 9800GT
monitor: acer al2216w
OS: vista 64 ultimate

This box used to run winXP but I upgraded because I wanted to try vista64
so I bought vista64, and bought a new hardrive, put in the new hardrive and installed
vista.

Now the default vista video driver works fine, but of course has no 3d acceleration so its not an option. However if i install the nvidia driver the monitor stops working.

When the boot screen comes up, it comes up normally does the ram check and then loads vista, the vista loading bar also displays but then right before it shows the windows logo the screen goes black and it says "No signal". At that point the OS is loaded and it is waiting for me to login.

Here is the crazy part, at that point if i unplug the monitor from the video card, and then replug it and then click the mouse a couple times the monitor wakes up and I can log in just fine. But the resolution is locked at 1024x768.

I have a second monitor, if I unplug the Acer monitor and plug in my Viewsonic monitor and reboot then vista loads properly the nvidia driver loads properly and I get all the possible resolutions for that monitor.

The problem is that the nvidia vista 64 video driver does not recognize the acer monitor. There is nothing wrong with the acer monitor, if i plug in my old hard drive which has winXP on it, it works fine.

Try this driver for your card. It seems that there are various problems with this monitor and vista.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvist...8.13_whql.html

That is a 32bit driver, does it matter or not really if the video driver is 64 or 32?

I'm using vista64 and I need to run DX10 games and also Maya2008 64bit version

Ahhhh, this may solve the problem I am having posted on another thread. My monitor keeps crapping out on me from time to time and I was blaming the games I was playing. Last Night it didn't want to work anymore with the 178.13 or 178.24 (x64) driver



I am hoping that since DX10 is native to Vista, we won't have any problems playing those games. Besides, it seems that all the Publishers are porting the console games to PC so they are not optimized for PC anyways. I doubt we'll notice any serious changes, at least... that's what I am hoping for anyways!

Update:

I don't really know what the differences between the Acer AL2216W and AL2216WD are but I was able to find the following vista driver and I, for one, am willing to give it a run for its money if it lets me have a decent run at it for more than a couple of days.

AcerPanAm.com/us

Buying a new one is not an option at this juncture since it will cost me less to just get rid of Vista and run on XP.

Try it at your own risk.