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Event of a monitor being connected that is not mine
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Yes, my Device Manager shows the actual monitor manufacturer, model number, and connection method (analog(VGA) vs digital).
That's how it's supposed to work. If it doesn't, something has gone haywire somewhere, and it may difficult or impossible to
get the correct (native) resolution sent to the monitor.
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None of my computers differ. They all show just Generic PnP monitor entries. None of them have any problems sending native resolution to external monitors.
- I've even checked back to Windows XP and it was the same [except that the non-descript entry was then Default monitor].
Puzzling. I have never had any reason to think that other computers were any different.
You are referring to the built-in Device manager and not to anything else, such as DevCon reports?
Denis
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Yes. Behavior might be dependent on which video driver is in charge. I've only experience with Intel video drivers. My first encounter with this stuff was in 2007, Windows Vista. Then, it took me 8 months of research and fiddling to get my Intel drivers to output the correct native resolution to my little HP monitor, and proper display of monitor in Device Manager. Registry hacks were involved. My current setup just worked OOB.
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I can appreciate that non-standard monitors might be different [that Device manager might display monitor names] and that oddities in display drivers might affect what is regarded by Device manager as non-standard.
- My first use of external monitors was through a DVI connection on my XP computer and its Device manager only has Default monitor entries [and I checked its hidden devices as well].
- I don't have a Windows 7 example to check because that computer has since been updated to Windows 10 & then Windows 11. I have also checked back through old Windows 7 screenshots but not a single one of them had the Device manager, Monitors entry expanded.
- I never used Vista.
Denis
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