Manually installing the monitor driver – Lenovo D186 Wide Flat Panel Monitor User Manual

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Chapter 3.

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Manually installing the monitor driver

Below are steps for manually installing the monitor driver in Microsoft Windows Vista,
Microsoft. Windows XP.

Installing the monitor driver in Windows Vista

To install the device driver in Microsoft® Windows Vista, do the following:

Note: You must download files from the Lenovo Monitor CD to use the Plug and Play feature

in Windows Vista.

1. Turn off the computer and all attached devices.

2. Ensure that the monitor is connected correctly.

3. Turn on the monitor and then the system unit. Allow your computer to start the Windows

Vista operating system.

4. Open the

Display Properties

window by clicking

Start, Control Panel

and then double-clicking the

Hardware and Sound

icon.

5. Click the Personalization icon.

6. Click the Display Settings icon.

7. Click the Advanced Settings button.

8. Click the Monitor tab.

9. Click the Properties button and then Click the ccontinue button.

11. Open the "Update Driver Software-Generic PnP Monitor" window by clicking on

Update Driver

and then click the "Browse my computer for driver software" button.

12. Select “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” .

16. Close all open windows and remove the CD.

17. Restart the computer.

The system will automatically select the maximum refresh rate and
corresponding Color Matching Profiles.

10. Click the Driver tab.

Note: On LCD monitors, unlike CRTs, a faster refresh rate does not improve display quality. Lenovo

recommends using either

1366 x 768 at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, or 640 x 480 at a refresh rate of 60 Hz..

.

13. Click the Have Disk button. Click the Browse button and navigate to the

following directory:

: Monitor Drivers Windows Vista

(where

is the drive letter designator for the CD-ROM drive).

14. Select the "

LEN D186wA .inf" file and click the Open button. Click the OK button.

15. Select

LEN D186wA and click Next. The files will be copied from the CD to your

hard disk drive.

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