Monitor Help


  1. Posts : 4
    W7 RC
       #1

    Monitor Help


    I just d/led windows 7 RC and im having problems connecting to my 2nd monitor, the screen on my laptop is working just fine.

    its not recongizing the monitor at all

    http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/ncperrotta069/Untitled.png

    i have a HP - Pavilion Laptop with AMD Turion™ X2 RM-75 Dual-Core Mobile Processor with NVIDIA GeForce 8200M graphics

    my monitor is a Samsung t240 HD

    In device manager
    Monitor is showing - Generic Non-Pnp Monitor
    Display is showing Standard VGA Graphics Adapter

    im not experienced with this kind of stuff at all

    Please help

    ty
    Last edited by ncperrotta069; 08 Jul 2009 at 04:25.
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  2. Posts : 4
    W7 RC
    Thread Starter
       #2

    somebody?
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  3. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #3

    graphic driver


    ncperrotta069 said:
    I just d/led windows 7 RC and im having problems connecting to my 2nd monitor, the screen on my laptop is working just fine.

    its not recongizing the monitor at all

    http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/ncperrotta069/Untitled.png

    i have a HP - Pavilion Laptop with AMD Turion™ X2 RM-75 Dual-Core Mobile Processor with NVIDIA GeForce 8200M graphics

    my monitor is a Samsung t240 HD

    In device manager
    Monitor is showing - Generic Non-Pnp Monitor
    Display is showing Standard VGA Graphics Adapter

    im not experienced with this kind of stuff at all

    Please help

    ty
    You just need to download a friver for the samsung t240 HD. then device manager will display correctly

    Hope this helped

    Ken
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  4. Posts : 932
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #4

    In device manager
    Monitor is showing - Generic Non-Pnp Monitor
    Display is showing Standard VGA Graphics Adapter
    Looking at this Im going to ask if you loaded the latest drivers for your Nvidia card??
    Then once you have loaded the Nvidia driver I would load the Samsung one like zigzag3143 said.
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  5. Posts : 4
    W7 RC
    Thread Starter
       #5

    i didnt load anything or d/l anything can some1 tell me where i could d/l these drivers?
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  6. Posts : 932
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #6

    ncperrotta069 said:
    i didnt load anything or d/l anything can some1 tell me where i could d/l these drivers?
    Brinks has a post on the nvidia drivers here it is
    Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7
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  7. Posts : 4
    W7 RC
    Thread Starter
       #7

    sorry im a noob at this, heres a brief list of the supported, i have a GeForce 8200M and its showing GeForce 8200M G, does the "G" make a difference?

    GeForce 8800M GTS
    GeForce 8800 GS
    GeForce 8700M GT
    GeForce 8600M GT
    GeForce 8600M GS
    GeForce 8400M GT
    GeForce 8400M GS
    GeForce 8400M G
    GeForce 8200M G
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  8. Posts : 932
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #8

    I dont believe it will make a difference, give it a shot.
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  9. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 RC 7100
       #9

    Go To WINDOWS UPDATE and look there and there should be an driver update there for your monitor and then everything should work perfectly!!
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