re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager Monday, September 26, 2005 at 2:03 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by JT (61 messages posted) Provided you are in the US, you can grab the AC713 driver (.inf and .icm) from Acer PanAmerica. You will download a SFX zip file "ac713_driver.exe". Unzip the contents to any directory, e.g., C:\Temp, with WinZip, 7-Zip, etc. Do not execute the SFX. At a command prompt, type "compmgmt.msc" and hit Enter From the Computer Management module, open System Tools (if necessary) and click Device Manager You should have a Monitors entry that lists either something like "Plug and Play Monitor" or "Default Monitor". If you do not have either of these entries, try running the Add/Remove Hardware wizard and let it scan your hardware. It should find *some* monitor. Double click (or right click and Properties) Click the Driver tab Click the "Update Driver..." button In the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard, click Next Click "Display a list of known drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver." and click Next Click the "Have Disk..." button From the "Install from Disk" dialog, select the directory to which you extracted the ac713_driver.exe and click OK Select AC713 and click Next Click Next Click Yes at the "Digital Signature Not Found" dialog Click Finish Should be it. Hope this helps, JT On Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 9:12 pm, Robert Kidd wrote: >I have reinstalled Win 2k and when I try to install the monitor driver (ACER AC713.inf) >And go to the device manager there are no monitors or display devices in the list. >I tried using Add/Remove hardware but when I get to the Locate Driver step and go >to the driver location I get the error "The specified location does not contain information >about your hardware". I have the latest driver from the ACER Web site and have contacted >the ACER support but they don't answer. How can I locate the monitor in the device >manager? Written in response to: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 9:12 pm) Responses to this message: re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Monday, September 26, 2005 at 6:42 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Sun, Sep 25, 2005, 9:12 pm) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (JT: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 2:03 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 6:42 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (JT: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 5:32 pm) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (romukief: Tue, Oct 4, 2005, 4:00 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (DEX: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 7:58 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 8:39 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (DEX: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 8:58 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Robert Kidd: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 9:20 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (DEX: Mon, Sep 26, 2005, 9:37 am) re: Win2k not showing monitor in device manager (Crash Override: Tue, Oct 4, 2005, 5:21 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum