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    How to find out which monitor I have?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by torchwood, Mar 15, 2008.

  1. torchwood

    torchwood Newbie

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    Hello, I have a brand new XPS M1530 in the UK and have read loads about the monitor grainy issue. So once I received it I went into the device manager to find out which monitor I have and it is generic pnp monitor. So I went to the Dell site with the service tag and even that say generic pnp monitor. What gives? Where do I find out what monitor I have?
     
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  2. Gfresh404

    Gfresh404 Notebook Evangelist

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    settings----control panel----system------device manager-----monitors

    click the the tab---- details and select hardware ids in the drop down box
    you'll get something like----monitor/....
     
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    torchwood Newbie

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    Duh......thanks gfresh.
     
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    Flam3h Notebook Consultant

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    What res screen you get Torchwood? and what brand did you end up with? :)
     
    Flam3h, Mar 15, 2008
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    TheCleanerLeon Notebook Geek

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    its becoming a hypochondriac situation. I have a 1680 x 1050 samsung which looks great, and everything is sharp, the downside of it is its viewing angles maybe, but thats it.

    If too many people with perfectly good samsung monitors are calling dell asking for an LG, its only going to hurt people who genuinly have a bad screen
     
    TheCleanerLeon, Mar 15, 2008
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    Hmmm... but the viewing angles really do suck quite badly, don't they? I dodged the grainy screen bullet, but I'm still wondering if I should ask for a change, because the viewing angles suck so much. If I so much as move my head up or down an inch, the appearance of the half the screen changes drastically.

    I'm in a room full of Samsung LCD's at work, and none of them do the same things (for ref: I'm using a Syncmaster 213T, and others are using 204B's), but the panels they give to Dell must be a different tech, or truly built to a budget to look like this :(

    I've only had my laptop for a few hours, so I will give it some more time.... maybe I'll get used to it, but then again for me to notice it *immediately* without looking for it (I did look for graininess as soon as it started) shows how bad it is.
     
    RostokMcSpoons, Mar 17, 2008
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