win3.1: NEED VIDEO DRIVER FOR DELL E770 S MONITOR

[m***@yahoo.ca]

HI,

I'm looking for a video driver that will operate a Dell e770s
monitor (circa: april 2000).

I have an old S3 805 video card and my driver is S3 2.4B8 640x480
256colors.

When I tried hooking it up it played abit of havoc with my video
driver system in that it took me hours to boot up again after it
froze up my windows with the windows going all funny appearnces.

After putting the old monitor back and then using cntrl alt del
instead of the reboot button, the prompt said that program manager
wasn't responding. Hit enter..my prog mngr dissapeared (icon), but I
had a clean wallpaper and a mouse cursor.

I hit cntrl alt delete again, and dos booted up and then windows
(whew!).

I went to windows setup and found the video driver bumped to some
thing else. Changed it back,

Now I've been told that the Dell monitor is a smart monitor that's try
to talk to the computer for plug & play purposes which of course
Win3.1 does not have.


Is ther a driver out there that could work ??

Cheers.

[Artur Yelchishchev]

Post by m***@yahoo.ca
HI,

Hello,

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Post by m***@yahoo.ca
Now I've been told that the Dell monitor is a smart monitor that's try
to talk to the computer for plug & play purposes which of course
Win3.1 does not have.
Is ther a driver out there that could work ??

IMHO, you'll need to tune up your videocard's driver. The feature
you're referring to ("talk to the computer") is a plain DDC -
Display Data Channel, and used to inform the computer about
monitor's capabilities: maximum refresh rate and resolution.

Win3.1 as such doesn't support it indeed, but particular Win3.1
video drivers can handle it just fine (for example, ATI). Another
possibility (also widely used) is, to manually specify monitor's
parameters somewhere in the videodriver's settings.

Often, the software involved in mentioned settings is not
Windows-based one, but DOS-based, and should be loaded before
starting Windows - typically, from the Autoexec.bat file.

Look thoroughly whether your current driver does support either
method; perhaps, you'll have to replace it with more modern one.

HTH,
Artur