Help with Blind Install of Monitor Drivers

[Athelgar]

I just received a desktop computer for Christmas and plugged in the monitor, booted it up, and... Nothing. Okay, so I put the Driver c/d in, and... Nothing. Everything is hooked in and working properly, power is fine on the PC and monitor, it just seems that there is no auto-install for the monitor drivers.

Since I'm posting this from my laptop, I figured I could try to just install the monitor on here and repeat the keystrokes for the desktop. Except that Dell is full of dimwits and made the driver install require mouse clicks, so I can't duplicate the keystrokes blind.

I'm stumped on how to get the drivers installed. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[COLGeek]

You shouldn't need any special drivers to see an image on the screen. Does anything ever display on the monitor (like the BIOS page immediately after powering on)?

 

[Athelgar]

You shouldn't need any special drivers to see an image on the screen. Does anything ever display on the monitor (like the BIOS page immediately after powering on)?

When I plug it in and turn it on, the monitor brightens up a bit, then displays the 'entering power save mode' message before going into power save. It did the same thing before I installed the drivers on my laptop, but the monitor works just fine after the drivers are installed.

I just have no idea how to get it working for the desktop when I can't see what I'm doing.

 

[COLGeek]

This sounds more like an issue with the video card, not the monitor/display.

What are the specs for this system (make/model)?

 

[Athelgar]

This sounds more like an issue with the video card, not the monitor/display.

What are the specs for this system (make/model)?

I'll grab the specs in the morning if you think it's really necessary. I'll need to make a phone call to get them from the person that gifted the PC to me, as I don't know them myself.

I'm curious why you think it would be a video card issue though. As I said, the monitor behaved the same way when plugged into my (perfectly functioning) laptop until I installed the monitor drivers using the installation CD, and then the monitor functioned perfectly with no errors that I could see.

 

[COLGeek]

Because monitors, generally, don't need specific drivers to actually show something on the screen. If that were the case, this would happen all of the time. Even without specific drivers, you should see something. Assuming the monitor works, you then look at what the monitor is connected to.

 

[Athelgar]

Because monitors, generally, don't need specific drivers to actually show something on the screen. If that were the case, this would happen all of the time. Even without specific drivers, you should see something. Assuming the monitor works, you then look at what the monitor is connected to.

Yes, I understand how monitors in general work, I'm asking why in this specific situation where the monitor has been proven to behave the same way when connected to two different machines (one of which I know for a fact has a perfectly functioning video card), you think it would be a video card issue? This seems very much to be a monitor that requires drivers to function properly. It's a Dell E2313H model monitor.

I'm really just looking for some way to blindly get the monitor drivers onto my new PC. Or maybe there's a way to connect it to my laptop and use the new PC as an External Hard Drive, directly installing the files onto it using my laptop?

 

[COLGeek]

The plug and support built into Windows will load drivers for displays. What type of connection are you using with the monitor (vga, dvi, hdmi, etc)?

 

[Athelgar]

The plug and support built into Windows will load drivers for displays. What type of connection are you using with the monitor (vga, dvi, hdmi, etc)?

I've tried both VGA and DVI (Separately of course), both with the same result. I can't duplicate the DVI results on my laptop as it only has a VGA port, though.

 

[COLGeek]

You definitely need to troubleshoot your video card. Those ports should work with no special drivers whatsoever.

 

[Athelgar]

You definitely need to troubleshoot your video card. Those ports should work with no special drivers whatsoever.

You're... clearly not listening. That's alright. I know what the issue is, I'll find a solution myself.

Thanks for... trying? This didn't feel like trying. Responding. There, that's an appropriate word.

 

[COLGeek]

Good luck. Done here. Have a Happy New Year.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

 

[Onus]

COLGeek is absolutely correct. Monitor drivers may provide additional display modes (and your laptop may default to one it doesn't support by default), however the default Windows drivers for PC display adapters use a lowest common denominator mode that will work. You will indeed discover that you have a display adapter (or cable) problem, not a monitor driver issue. Good luck.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Because monitors, generally, don't need specific drivers to actually show something on the screen. If that were the case, this would happen all of the time. Even without specific drivers, you should see something. Assuming the monitor works, you then look at what the monitor is connected to.

Yes, I understand how monitors in general work, I'm asking why in this specific situation where the monitor has been proven to behave the same way when connected to two different machines (one of which I know for a fact has a perfectly functioning video card), you think it would be a video card issue? This seems very much to be a monitor that requires drivers to function properly. It's a Dell E2313H model monitor.

I'm really just looking for some way to blindly get the monitor drivers onto my new PC. Or maybe there's a way to connect it to my laptop and use the new PC as an External Hard Drive, directly installing the files onto it using my laptop?

No modern monitor requires any special drivers to work properly. There are some that come with drivers instead of using the standard Plug and Play monitor driver provided by Microsoft and will show up like this in the Device Manager:

Just in case here is Microsofts explanation on how PnP works:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781092(v=ws.10).aspx

That Dell monitor is a monitor from 2013 (roughly) and I have been plugging in monitors since 1995 and never had to install any drivers for it to actually work at all short of a driver for the GPU to be able to display at the monitors native resolution.

There is a driver for this monitor:

http://www.dell.com/support/home/ed/en/edbsdt1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=70K4P&fileId=3079043170&osCode=W732&productCode=dell-e2313h&languageCode=EN&categoryId=DD

However, that driver is used specifically to utilize features in the monitor, such as having specific color reproduction and not for it to actually work.

I am not sure how you think anyone could actually install drivers blind. It would be like having to install a part in a car without being able to see where you have to put it. It is just impossible.

If you have tested this on two different systems then it sounds like your monitor is probably having issues because as said, it should just plug in and work.