Dell Monitor - E173FPb Driver

Go here: ftp://ftp.dell.com/monitors/R74922.EXE

Hey man....

Tried that and got the following error!

Cannot Install this Hardware

The hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software.

* I downloaded the file to my desktop
* I double-clicked R74922.EXE
* Click Run- Continue- Ok- Yes- OK
* Open the Device Manager -
Press the Window key and the Pause Break key. Click Hardware. Click Device Manager
* Click the icon left of Monitors
* Double click the monitor listed
* Click the Driver tab
* Click the Update Driver button
* Click No, not at this time
* Click Next
* Dot Install from a list or specific location
* Click Next
* Click Don't search. I will choose the driver to install
* Click Next
* Click Have Disk
* Click Browse and navigate to C:\DELL\drivers\R74922
* Click the monitor inf file
* Click Open
* Click OK
* Click Next
* Click Finish

Finally it worked!  Now my problem is that when I change the screen resolution it does not auto adjust.  Then screen appears larger than the actual monitor size...

What video card and driver version?

Hope the following helps...

ATI Radeon HD 3450 video card....

Driver Provider: ATI Technologies Inc.

Driver Date: 3/12/2009

Driver Version: 8.593.0.0

Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

* Right click on the Desktop
* Open Catalyst Control Center
* Switch to Advanced mode
* Click the Dropdown Menu Graphics in the top Right
* Select Desktops and Displays
* Right click on Currently Active Display. This part is very crucial. There is a little picture of a tiny Monitor and tiny Arrow at the far bottom left of the CCC menu. It is this tiny Arrow that you left click on by the button that says Basic and the button that says OK. When you click on the little black arrow (not the Big Black Arrow in the middle of the CCC window, you will get the option to click Configure. Then the following 6 buttons will be available to you:
Attributes
Avivo Color
Scaling Options
HDTV Support
LCD Overdrive
Pixel Format
* Under Attributes, check the Enable GPU scaling box and the Scale image to full panel size
* Click Apply
* Select Configure
* Click on the Scaling Options tab
* Move the scale to the right until you get a full screen image 0%
* Click OK

I was able to get the 1st three steps then I got lost.  Maybe different version of the CCC...

* Right click on the Desktop
* Open Catalyst Control Center
* Switch to Advanced mode
* Click the Dropdown Menu Graphics in the top Right

Here is what is on my screen!

Under Desktop area, click the down arrow, what choices are offered?

720x480

800x600

848x480

1024x768

If the monitor driver got loaded, then the Ati Catalyst should list it. Yours list Default VGA monitor?

Yes it does!

Reload the video card driver and restart.

I Have been looking everywhere for this driver and found it here http://download.cnet.com/Dell-E173FP/3000-2108_4-108816.html virus free. This is the file he suggested earlier(which his link no longer works?)

SJStriker,

I fixed the hyperlink. The address for the file is:
ftp://ftp.dell.com/monitors/R74922.EXE