question about video drivers for windows XP

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I have an old TTX SVGA 14" monitor that isn't plug-n-play, so my XP system's
display on it is goofy. I get 3 overlapping images of the desktop making it
just about unreadable. I found a zipped driver for it and downloaded it,
extracted, and now have an inf file (or was it an ini file? I forget which)
in a directory on my hard drive.

How do I "load" the driver? Because I can't make out the screen with the
TTX monitor attached I want to do it using my other monitor. Can I just
copy it somewhere in the windows directory and then "install" it somehow? I
never did get this ini/inf driver stuff straight in my head.

Thanks in advance, of course, for any help with this.

Alby

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Well, the inf file contains instructions for the OS on how to
configure and use the monitor. It is not really a driver. But, I think
all you do is go through the install driver procedure and specify the
directory where the inf file is. Probably better to put it in
Windows/system directory. I have used an inf file for an Intel chip
set. There was a long procedure on how to "install" it.

hawk

-Alby Hewlet wrote:
> I have an old TTX SVGA 14" monitor that isn't plug-n-play, so my XP system's
> display on it is goofy. I get 3 overlapping images of the desktop making it
> just about unreadable. I found a zipped driver for it and downloaded it,
> extracted, and now have an inf file (or was it an ini file? I forget which)
> in a directory on my hard drive.
>
> How do I "load" the driver? Because I can't make out the screen with the
> TTX monitor attached I want to do it using my other monitor. Can I just
> copy it somewhere in the windows directory and then "install" it somehow? I
> never did get this ini/inf driver stuff straight in my head.
>
> Thanks in advance, of course, for any help with this.
>
> Alby
>
>

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SAFE MODE then do as conor says, safe mode SHOULD let you see the
screen normally. If this is a TFT LCD etc, then your video card may
need adjusting from a CRT before hooking up the other.

"-Alby Hewlet" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> I have an old TTX SVGA 14" monitor that isn't plug-n-play, so my XP
system's
> display on it is goofy. I get 3 overlapping images of the desktop
making it
> just about unreadable. I found a zipped driver for it and
downloaded it,
> extracted, and now have an inf file (or was it an ini file? I
forget which)
> in a directory on my hard drive.
>
> How do I "load" the driver? Because I can't make out the screen
with the
> TTX monitor attached I want to do it using my other monitor. Can I
just
> copy it somewhere in the windows directory and then "install" it
somehow? I
> never did get this ini/inf driver stuff straight in my head.
>
> Thanks in advance, of course, for any help with this.
>
> Alby
>
>