help need a brightview driver

Hi,

I have a new HP Pavilion dv9734tx with 17.0" WSXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display . It came with Vista Home Premium, and I installed Vista Ultimate upgrade. Originally in te Vista Home Premium unde the Device Manager It was showing a specific driver (whose title included words "BrightVew" and "Widescreen") in the Monitor section originally. I noticed recently that the Monitor driver now is "Generic PnP Monitor" with very limited functions and parameters.So please can anyone please help me with the brightview driver or point me where i can find it.

thanks,

john

 

I dont think their is such thing as a monitor driver. Are you sure that you did not uninstall the appropriate graphics driver. Their are drivers for your graphics card, but usually not for a screen.
If their are drivers for the screen, they would be on a disc which came with the computer, or on the hp website.

K-TRON

 

hi k-tron.

Monitors do have drivers and in the original machine it was i think provided by hp not sure about that as i did not have a detailed look.anyways now the driver is provided by microsoft.had a chat with the hp people and they are saying that the drivers are being provided by os.well the screen was dull and now i found out by pressing fn+f8 key i can make it brighter.Also am installing the latest geforce drivers so hopefully should increase the brightness of the screen.if anybody does find the drivers please post me the link.

thanks
john

 

John, well it seems that the drivers you are looking for is a generic hp program.
Dell has something similar, known as quickset, which does the whole screen and audio controls, but I am not sure what HP calls their's.

Did you get a resource cd with your laptop?
The disc with all of the drivers for your laptop?
It should be on their, so look in there and tell us if you find it.

K-TRON

 

Actually, there are specific monitor drivers, seen/used them a lot especially with desktops. By default, Windows has quite a lot of monitor drivers to choose from, uncheck the "Show compatible hardware" and you will see a whole list of monitor manufacturers and drivers. If a monitor requires a specific driver, the output will be a lot better if the right driver is installed.



johnie1, have you tried using the manual method to choose one like the pic above? There are a whole list of HP monitor drivers built-in to Windows. Can you post the monitor's Hardware IDs from Device Manager? It will help to find the right driver.