help .... monitor/driver issues .. Win7

[Jeepers]

so i had my second monitor take a crap a few months ago and i finally got around to ripping it open and replace the caps on the power board and solved my monitor's blinking blue button and now powers on fine...

so i think "GREAT!" i can now hook my second monitor back up, so i thought ... it does its normal searching for drivers ect but is installing "generic non-PnP" drivers so it thinks its a CRT and only flashes for maybe 10 secs of desktop#2 before it looks like no signal (power button is blue and not going into hibernate) tried all resolutions,refresh rate ect still only a few seconds of desktop then black again

cant find any stand alone drivers from a reliable source, gateway just links to some 3 party software that is not free so not going that route for a old monitor ...... grrrrrr i am at a loss as this monitor worked fine on this puter for over a year and now nothing .....

a lil system specs ...

Win7 64
radeon 4850 vid card(old but does what i need)
main monitor acer 22" on DVI works fine
second monitor 19" gateway fpd1975w VGA cable on monitor to DVI2VGA adaptor,driver issue

any ideas on a driver or how to force a driver install would be great

[stilly]

Check your work. Perhaps you bumped something replacing your caps. Or maybe a solder joint is not as good as you think.
Good for you for being able to solder. As a kid I taught myself how to do that. I held the wires, held the iron, and then touched the solder on the iron and watched it spit and melt to a drop, then I put it on the wires and presto! Soldered!

To this day, I can not solder worth ****...

[Jeepers]

Check your work. Perhaps you bumped something replacing your caps. Or maybe a solder joint is not as good as you think.

ya going to have to rip into it again but dont think its got anything to do with the repair as all the caps i replaced where on the power board and never touched the logic board , but i might have not got one of the lil cables back together right .....lol

Good for you for being able to solder. As a kid I taught myself how to do that. I held the wires, held the iron, and then touched the solder on the iron and watched it spit and melt to a drop, then I put it on the wires and presto! Soldered!

To this day, I can not solder worth ****...

lol been there done that .. i grew up getting toys like these when i was a kid


i was a geek before geeks where cool lol