Vista - Default Monitor Problems.

Hi. I've serched and serched on google for a reliable answer but like google all are very vague. With my efforts in finind out the problem I've found that after I updated my display driver my monitor went to Generic Non-PnP Monitor before crashing my pc then I was unable to restart. I then reformatted (I've always called it reboot but meh) so I'm at a fresh screen however still the resolution problem persists.

I understand that I need to change Generic Non-PnP Monitor to
Generic PnP Monitor but thats where I'm at a stand-still. Updating drivers dosn't seem to work. I'll post some SS soon but if anyone knows how to fix this or simply has an idea would be great.

Imageshack - device


Imageshack - cantchangew < cant change these or screen goes huge

Hi and welcome

Is you monitor PnP? what kind of monitor is it?

by updating drivers do you mean GPU drivers? or monitor drivers?

I've tryed updating everything. I've been tryign and failing everything which I've serched on google which often says update drivers (ti the guy above. All drivers I thought were assosiated with monitor.). I'm not sure If it was pnp. I assume thats the problem because it is the resolution that is the problem and it shouldn't be default monitor I assume.

Edit: I also tryed d/l latest drivers of nvidia site and dell (which my pc is).

Edit edit: Thanks for the quick replys =D.

I'll explain what happened to cause the problem at the beggining. Simple enough acctualy. Playing a game , wow to be precise =p then the scrren went black. I then rebooted my pc and now the screen has been like that ever since. (Since last week).

you can alter the monitors edid and force the correct resolution , there are tools out there to do it but it can cause damage if used incorrectly (which is why ill leave it up to you to find it if you want )

the problem seems to be Vista installing a generic monitor driver before you get chance to install your gpu drivers , this screws everything up and can be a right pain to sort , its been all over the net for years XP was the same

edit just saw your last post

are you saying you just have a black screen? no image at all?

this http://img2.imageshack.us/i/cantchangew.jpg/ is showing no GPU drivers installed do you know how to use a driver cleaner?

sorry. I'll try explain a bit better.

- Playing game , randomly crashed.
- Black screen came up and I rebooted pc
- Resolution changed which I couldn't seem to change.
- I restarted PC then it wouldn't start atall.
- I then reformatted the pc
- Default monitor is still there so resolution is still screwed.

Thats basically the stage im at atm.

I dont know what you mean with driver cleaner. =[

what monitor do you have?

forget driver cleaner for now i didnt realise you had reformatted this sounds like a vista issue

Dell SE197FP LCD Flat Panel Monitor