Do I need the Viewsonic Wizard CD?
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From: mm on 30 Dec 2009 01:56 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. Thanks.
From: VanguardLH on 30 Dec 2009 03:27 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 means you can select this particular brand and model of monitor in Control Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced -> Monitor. Besides picking the correct monitor so valid settings are used for it, an option becomes available to hide any modes that the monitor doesn't support to ensure you don't pick a wrong resolution+frequency combination. I didn't see a driver download for G810 (or 810) at the Viewsonic support site but then perhaps it is so old that they have long abandoned any support for it. Guess you'll have to Google for it. http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bviewsonic+%2Bg810+%2Bdriver First hit goes to http://driverscollection.com/?H=G810&By=ViewSonic. I've never used or even heard of that site before now so I cannot vouch for malware-free downloads.
From: mm on 30 Dec 2009 21:18 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. >means you can select this particular brand and model of monitor in Control >Panel -> Display -> Settings -> Advanced -> Monitor. Besides picking the >correct monitor so valid settings are used for it, an option becomes >available to hide any modes that the monitor doesn't support to ensure you >don't pick a wrong resolution+frequency combination. Okay. That's good. > >I didn't see a driver download for G810 (or 810) at the Viewsonic support >site but then perhaps it is so old that they have long abandoned any support >for it. Guess you'll have to Google for it. > >http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bviewsonic+%2Bg810+%2Bdriver > >First hit goes to http://driverscollection.com/?H=G810&By=ViewSonic. I've >never used or even heard of that site before now so I cannot vouch for >malware-free downloads. Thanks a lot.
From: Grinder on 30 Dec 2009 23:00 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.
From: Brian Cryer on 5 Jan 2010 06:06
"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). -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian |