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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


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Try using an XP driver:

support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=2867&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=&impid=&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=56102" >support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=2867&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=&impid=&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=56102

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"Brian S. Paskin" <brian@paskino.com>wrote in message



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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.

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