Windows 10: Windows 10 not detecting ViewSonic 2265 Monitor

I have searched the forums and tried all the suggests on getting my laptop to detect second monitor to no avail. What amd I missing? I have downloaded the drivers for my monitor and still nothing.

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Multiple Monitors

i upgraded to windows 10 and now I cannot use the viewsonic hdmi led monitor I bought a few years ago. It is a ViewSonic.

I went to their site, but there is no driver for windows 10, since it is older. When I look for the viewsonic under device manager all i see is the generic pnp monitor. Windows 10 does not recognize the viewsonic. Is there anything I can do? I would
rather use my large monitor rather than the 15 inch laptop monitor.

 

External Monitor Issues after Windows 10 Upgrade

My small organization uses 3 similar but slightly different Dell laptops (mine is an Inspiron 14z). After upgrading to Windows 10, none of our computers are working with external monitors. We have Viewsonic VX2250-WM monitors, they are about 5 years old
at this point. Drivers are updated (although Viewsonic doesn't offer Windows 10 drivers), but the computer just won't recognize the monitor - can't detect it when from Display, doesn't find it as a Device. Can anyone help explain why this isn't working and
what we might be able to do to fix this?

 

Welcome to the forum have you installed the drivers and the .inf file

 

I did install the driver I found on ViewSonic web page. Where do I find the .inf file? I found the one for Windows 10 64 bit. That did not work. I then installed the driver for Windows 10 Undefined and that did not work.

 

The drivers found on monitor web sites only install color palettes to assist rendering. Did you install the graphics driver for your notebook?

Yikes. In fact i see HP has multiple choices for graphics drivers, both AMD and Intel and one for Intel specifically if running Win 10 version 1607.

• You can run Speccy (freeware version) to confirm if graphics card AMD or Intel.
• If Intel, click on Settings icon (back in Windows, not Speccy) select System. Scroll down and click About. You'll see the version number. (it's probably 1607) For version 1607, note HP has a group named Driver-Graphics and another named Driver-Graphics-Intel. The latter has the Win 10 version 1607 driver

HERE's where i found the HP drivers (please double check it's the right one for you model

 

It is Version 1511 and it is Intel

 

Then under Drivers-Graphics install Intel driver dated Apr 15, 2016. Once detected, THIS HP link may also help in setup

 

Download the graphics driver from the laptop manufacturer's website. It is highly recommended for Laptops.

 

The 'drivers' as such are usually just an *.INF and *.ICM colour profile files.
You won't see anything happening unless you look at Colour profiles in Windows when you should find an entry for your monitor.
The INF just details the range of settings available for that particular monitor, modern monitors send that info back anyway, so not essential for it to work.

Look in Your Device Manager. Right click Start > Device Manager > Monitors, to see if it is listed there. Should be two of course.
Swop to another HDMI lead, check sockets and plugs for damage/dust.

 

I will download Drivers-Graphics for Intel and see what takes place

 

When I install the Intel driver per ComputerGeek I get this:

The computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.

This is becoming frustrating. Why should installing a second monitor be so difficult.

 

Got it to work. I went into Device Manager and right clicked the display adaper. I asked to update the Intel Graphic one and it did it.

 

It shouldn't be difficult at all! ARGHH *Confused Forgive the basic question, but you've checked cable securely attached and monitor is turned ON?

• Curious to see what you currently have. Run dxdiag (see HERE). Click Save All Information button to your Desktop as DxDiag.txt
  
• Run the Intel Driver Update tool. Does it make suggestions? Install the drivers it suggests
• Check if new monitor detected
• If still a problem, run dxdiag again, this time save as Dxdiag2.tx
• Attach both files to next post so we can have a look (see Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Ten Forums)

 

Great news! Glad you got it working! *Thumbs