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[summer_skin]

OKAY! I need help!

I have successfully done the restore and everything's backed up (as far as I know, anyway!). I had to find a few things that I didn't even know were missing and ANYWAY. Here I am, trying to dl the updates I need for XP (joy) and whatnot but holy shit.

MY MONITOR.

It's a brand new, 17" HP flatscreen. Plug and play. But it/the computer won't let me set the resolution above 1280x720 and this requires 1440x900. The current setting in my display is only 1400x1050 or something, which I can't even set. So now everything is SQUISHED and terrible.

HELP?! I don't know what to do. My computer was built for me so I'm not even 100% sure what to search for as far as drivers so, but I DO have a breakdown of the specs, if anyone can help me out.

Comments

[jamesinboots.livejournal.com]

It's not the monitor that needs drivers, but your video card, as I think someone else mentioned above. If you don't know what video card you have, there's ways to find out. (If all else fails, open up the computer and read it off the card itself, heh.) After that, go to the manufacturer's website and look for drivers for that card. (It's not too hard to find, but I could help if you get the model!) (Video card drivers should always be available for free, they're just sometimes hard to find! Sometimes drivers are packaged so that you download one file that works with many different cards, so it can be confusing!)

[summer-skin.livejournal.com]

I got the monitor thing figured out so that's all good. But now I'm having problems a) disabling that annoying beep when I do something the computer doesn't like (like trying to click on a window behind another one and that sharp, whiny beep happens) and b) my add ons don't seem to want to work. At all. Oy.