Do I need the Viewsonic Wizard CD?
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From: mm on 15 Jan 2010 02:28 On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:00:39 -0600, Grinder <grinder(a)no.spam.maam.com> wrote: >On 12/30/2009 8:18 PM, mm wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:27:06 -0600, VanguardLH<V(a)nguard.LH> wrote: >> >>> mm wrote: >>> >>>> A friend found a Viewsonic G810 20" CRT monitor abandoned in an >>>> apartment she rents out and gave it to me. >>>> >>>> The manual refers to the Viewsonic Wizard CD and describes how to use >>>> it to install the monitor. I havent' found it online yet. Is it >>>> really necessary? >>>> >>>> Or is all I need to do install the drivers that I did find online? >>>> >>>> www.viewsonic.com was no help. >>> >>> >>> All you need is the .inf file that defines the monitor. This definition >> >> I don't think I have that, unless it is in the driver files I >> downloaded. They're .exe files and they're still on my flash drive, >> so I can't easily check. > >WinRAR can open many self-extracting archive formats, so you might be >able to pick it out that way. I missed your post until just now. Thanks.
From: mm on 15 Jan 2010 02:29
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:06:16 -0000, "Brian Cryer" <not.here(a)localhost> wrote: >"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com> wrote in message >news:33ulj5dokud6lbqfe08ha5qjrhlk46cc4l(a)4ax.com... >>A friend found a Viewsonic G810 20" CRT monitor abandoned in an >> apartment she rents out and gave it to me. >> >> The manual refers to the Viewsonic Wizard CD and describes how to use >> it to install the monitor. I havent' found it online yet. Is it >> really necessary? > >No. > >All the monitors I've installed over the years (and being IT Manager where I >work I've done quite a number) I've never used the bundled CD. Perhaps I've >been lucky, but I've yet to find a monitor where the PC didn't correctly >identify the monitor and its capabilities. > >Just plug it in and let your PC detect it (Windows is very good at this, I >assume Macs would be just as good, don't know about Linux). Thanks. Roger wilco. :) |