Vista Tutorial - Monitors

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

In message 7F9A7377-0284-40E2-B8A0-C3618F50D661@microsoft.com,
zductman <zductman@discussions.microsoft.com> Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:

> 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...

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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.

"ChrisM" wrote:

> In message 7F9A7377-0284-40E2-B8A0-C3618F50D661@microsoft.com,
> zductman <zductman@discussions.microsoft.com> Proclaimed from the tallest
> tower:
>
> > 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...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Chris.
> (Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)
>
>
>

"zductman" wrote:

> 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.

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


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Barry Schnur

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:23:15 -0800, zductman
<zductman@discussions.microsoft.com> spake thusly:

>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.
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