Adding a generic monitor

Hi All,

I built a new PC for my mother and installed Vista Home on the
system. Everything worked fine at my place, but when she plugged in
system at her place she receives a message that the display size is
not supported. Booting in safe mode works, but the Vista pops up a
message about unknown hardware. The monitor is a Dell E171Fp. There
is no monitor in the device manager.

Since Dell does not have a driver for this monitor, would it be better
to add a generic monitor? Add how would I add a generic monitor?

Thanks, Brian

Try using an XP driver:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support...0&fileid=56102
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"Brian S. Paskin" <brian@paskino.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I built a new PC for my mother and installed Vista Home on the
> system. Everything worked fine at my place, but when she plugged in
> system at her place she receives a message that the display size is
> not supported. Booting in safe mode works, but the Vista pops up a
> message about unknown hardware. The monitor is a Dell E171Fp. There
> is no monitor in the device manager.
>
> Since Dell does not have a driver for this monitor, would it be better
> to add a generic monitor? Add how would I add a generic monitor?
>
> Thanks, Brian

> Since Dell does not have a driver for this monitor, would it be better
> to add a generic monitor? Add how would I add a generic monitor?

If it's any help, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate with an old 17 inch
CRT monitor and a junkbox PCI card, just to get it up and running,
as a temporary measure.
Card a 4mb PCI Matrox Millennium II, Vista quite happy with it,
shows it as a PCI graphics adapter, as does BIOS. No problems.
It supports 1024 x 768 resolution.