LG monitor driver problem

Hi,

I am running Vista and recently bought a laptop and an LG W2252 for photo editing. I am only running ONE monitor at a time, not dual simultenously.

The CD that came with the monitor doesn't appear to want to install the driver.

I went on line and downloaded a driver from LG, but again it won't intall.

Instead of saying it has installed LG W2252, it keeps saying it has successfully downloaded "Generic PnP Monitor".

I keep running through the process to try and nominate W2252 but it keeps defaulting to "Generic PnP Monitor".

This is a major problem (as far as I can see!) as I edit photos on this laptop and need the screen colour calibrated so I know what I am seeing is pretty much what will print out.

I have a DataColour Spyder 3 and I have to keep recalibrating it every time I restart the computer - ie the saved profile won't load and I keep getting the following message:

"DisplayInfoRB-getscreenindex-didn't find monitor, 0,0,1024,768"

I assume this is because DataColour can't find the screen profile?

If anyone can solve this they can have my two children....okay, maybe only the first born one.

Many thanks

 

Have you gone into the device manager to check the driver for that monitor to see what details get displayed? That, rather than the title that's being displayed, would be a surer guide to which driver is actually running.

 

thanks for the reply.

Yes, I have checked the device driver.

It says "Generic PnP Monitor".

 

I have an LG screen as well, and here's what I show for Device Manager and Display Properties.









Cheers...

 

thanks Pixelot....so it doesn't look like the exact LG monitor shows up on your driver either but everything is working okay?

 

Everything is working okay, yes.

 

That's the line I was thinking along. Thanks for giving a concrete example, Pixelot.