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re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 5:29 am
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Posted by Ricer46 (23822 messages posted)


You have to make a better effort to find the appropriate video drivers.


On Monday, July 6, 2009 at 8:25 pm, John Godfrey wrote:
>I have a Dell C640 laptop, running WinXP, and an Acer X223W LCD monitor.
>In a new installation of WinXP, the auto config correctly adjusts the display for
>800x600,
>1024x768, and 1600-1200. 1280x 1024, and 1400x1050 are not supported.
>no video drivers are available, and in XP, there is no option to install other than
>default monitor.
>When WinXP searches for and finds the display adaptor ‘Mobility Radeon 7500’ and
>installs it, none of the resolutions display correctly, the display being larger
>than the monitor boundaries.
>The extreme top of task bar is visable, the ‘clock’ on the task bar is off screen
>to the right. Any program window when maximized, the blue bar on top is off screen
>at the top, and the minimize, maximize and exit buttons off screen to the right.
>The display is too large for the LCD screen.
>I can find no help on the Dell support site, nor the Acer site.
>The strange thing is, in a previous installation, all resolutions were correctly
>displayed.
>Any help would be appreciated
>Thanks,
>John


Written in response to:
video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Monday, July 6, 2009 at 8:25 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 11:37 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Mon, Jul 6, 2009, 8:25 pm)
*re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (MartinM: Tue, Jul 7, 2009, 1:22 am)
-re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (Ricer46: Tue, Jul 7, 2009, 5:29 am)
-re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Wed, Jul 8, 2009, 11:37 pm)
-re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (MartinM: Thu, Jul 9, 2009, 2:54 am)
*re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Sat, Jul 11, 2009, 4:13 pm)
*re: video issue Acer Xw223w monitor (John Godfrey: Mon, Jul 13, 2009, 12:36 am)
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