No Display adaptor or Monitor?

Hi all, I have an model LU.S050B. It came with Linux as we didn't want XP home, and I have successfully installed XP pro on it. The display looks fine on the small screen. However, I have today got an LG 17" LCD screen which looks very fuzzy. So I go into the SETTINGS - CONTROL PANEL - DISPLAY - SETTINGS and try to change the screen resolution. However, the slider will not move from 800x600. If I go into ADVANCED - MONITOR the properties button of the monitor is greyed out, so no go there.

When I go into the DEVICES I find there is no Display Adaptor and no Monitor installed. All my other computers have Adaptors and Monitors. How this machine manages to work without either I have no idea.

What can I do? I don't even know what sort of Display adaptor is in the box as the derisory 'documentation' does not say.

 

I would try installing the xp video driver (VGA Intel...) from here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/no ... e_110.html

 

Thanks, will try that.

 

Also you may want to do BIOS update if its not already updated!

Code:

3309 "Change vbios setting to fixed external display vibrate issue."

 

Thanks, that driver works fine - on boot the machine now comes up with very high res as default. Little screen now looks fine, and on the 19" LCD is really good - the big screen looked terrible at that low resolution.

That ACER site is a menace - it took me many goes to get anything to download as it always lost the connection after a meg or so. As I don't seem to have any trouble downloading from other sites I can point fingers I reckon ....