To install a new monitor, you actually load or change the drivers for it and Windows 
should then recognise it.
I suspect your problem is still one of wrong video drivers, but you need to identify 
exactly what make and model your video card is.






On Friday, November 29, 2002 at 7:43 am, Millie Stanton wrote:
>Hello there. Back again--decided to take a breather from all this 
>nonsense! Well, bright n early this morning, I came back and STARTED
>AGAIN. Anyway, I decided to let Ws find the new hardware--and lo n
>behold, it installed the right adapter. THEN w the right adapter--
>the numbers n letters of which I COPIED DOWN n stashed away--the
>monitor tab reappeared, and I chose generic AT&T, Ws made w its
>voodoo, restarted, etc. Well, it's not PERFECT, but it's BETTER!
>However, THEN, when I went in to choose another monitor, it only let
>me search for a NEWER DRIVER, so I s'pose if I wanted to change the
>mtr I'd have to uninstall it. So leave that for the moment. ANYWAY,
>now I am back where I wuz when someone told me to uninstall the
>adapter!!! At THAT point (before I did the uninstall bit), I had managed
>to reduce the vertical lines to four (1.3 inches high n .3 inches apart),
>but DOS was still blinking. Which is the situation I have NOW--lines
>gone 'cept for those 4, and DOS is still blinking. PLUS, the mouse leaves
>a trail--actually you can make cute patterns, spell yr name etc. Frst,
>I though it was the monitor per se, but when I change windows n
>come back, the patterns are gone.
>ANYWAY, this is all so !@#$% TEDIOUS, but do you have ANY idea
>what I can do to get rid of those four little lines, and to STOP DOS
>blinking.
>Once again, MANY MANY  thanx for your help, and hoping there's a
>solution to this crap!!! Millie.
>

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