Windows 10 64 bit sees my 21" Element monitor as generic pnp and insists it has the most recent driver. I disagree and it should have a driver other than what windows installs. And the odd thing is, the Element site has no drivers.

Drivers for monitors? What year is it, 1995? Even then you'd only get some fancy color profiles with a driver, maybe also some exotic screen rezes and refreshes if it was an odd monitor.

I wouldn't let my monitor drive. Since it's not one of the CRT ones, I'm pretty sure it's not 18 yet.

Does your 21" have any special features? Like GSync? If not the generic drivers should be just fine.

what if its a monitor lizard?

What about the DVD/CD that came with the monitor? If it didn't have one and there's nothing on the website, there's probably no driver out there.

The Generic P&P driver usually works just fine - especially if it's not a "branded" screen and doesn't have special features (and even then, you'd probably get away with using the generic driver)

I don't see why. Ben Eater did a homemade video card (which could only display a fixed image) and the video card gives off a signal, the signal is a few things including vsync, overscan, refreshrate, and a few timing bits, which results in all the resolution types... Quite informative...

Regardless i don't see why you'd need it. Sounds more like a limitation in case you're using CRT so you don't blow up your monitor... which you could have done...

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i had exactly the same thing!!!

generic pnp monitor, driver date 2 thousand and 6 !!!!!!

but windows does know its type, it knew the exact display model right down to the exact number code used by LG

luckily i had it fixed down to no time at all

thanks for the heads up and warning y'all

You usually don't need one for regular 60Hz displays. You may need one for 75Hz and higher refresh rates to be selectable in Windows or possibly for GSync / Freesync. Try searching for your monitor model + "driver". Changing it is usually as simple as going into Device Manager, right-clicking on your monitor, "Update Driver Software", then browsing to whereever you downloaded the driver to. (In many cases the "driver" isn't a driver at all but an .inf file that contains data about refresh rates, the monitors HID, etc, so the monitors proper name shows up, etc.

I think Element monitors have built-in drivers which confuses Windows, that's why it's recognized as PNP.

Does the screen display properly(for games/applications/etc)? If there is an issue, you could/should maybe check the site of the monitor manufacturer, otherwise (imo) you should just ignore it and use the generic driver.

Update: I checked a few places and it seems that general consensus is that Plug N Play monitors usually don't need a driver other than the generic one, and also checked the monitor maker's site and there don't seem to be any drivers there.

I wouldn't let my monitor drive