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November 17th, 2014 10:00
E2414H Driver and Windows XP Error Fix
I had the same problem installing the driver in XP. I used Notepad and deleted the following lines from the E2414h.inf file:
[E2414H.D-Sub.Install.Services]
AddService = monitor, %SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE%, Monitor_Service.Install
[E2414H.DVI.Install.Services]
AddService = monitor, %SPSVCINST_ASSOCSERVICE%, Monitor_Service.Install
[Monitor_Service.Install]
DisplayName = %Monitor.SVCDESC%
ServiceType = 1 ; SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER
StartType = 3 ; SERVICE_DEMAND_START
ErrorControl = 1 ; SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL
ServiceBinary = %12%\monitor.sys
Next I installed manually through Device Manager. You will get a message that the driver is not digitally signed but install anyway. It installed the .icm file and did away with the message on booting of trying to install new hardware. The device manager window has it installed as a "Dell E2141H (Analog-VGA)" monitor.
It worked well for me. I hope this helps.
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DELL-Chris M
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November 18th, 2014 18:00
Cool. Thanks for posting this XP fix.
Vrman1
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December 8th, 2014 16:00
Great!
I'm glad you were able to get it working. Your correct about the "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install " option. I failed to put that in the post.
I copied the the edited .INF file along with the .CAT and .ICM files to a temporary folder and installed through the Device Manager from that folder.
Thanks for adding that information to the post.
DellSpectator
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December 8th, 2014 05:00
Hooray! This is just what I needed. (I'm more of a Unix/Linux guy, so know little about debugging problems with INF files.)
Your solution worked perfectly for me, except that I thought I needed to copy the drivers folder from the installation CD to a directory on a mounted disk and edit the E2414H.inf file there. Then I told Device Manager to not search for a driver via Windows Update, to install from a list or specific location, and to search for the best driver in locations including my copy of the drivers directory. That kept failing with the same error. I finally looked in c:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log and saw that Windows was reporting finding matches for the monitor in several INF files, including both C:\WINDOWS\inf\oem173.inf and my edited E2414H.inf file, but it always reported installing (the best compatible driver) from oem173.inf, so it wasn't using my edited file. Looking at timestamps, I found that oem173.inf was created on my computer the first time that I ran "Drivers\Dell Monitor Driver Installer.exe" from the software CD, and was an identical copy of the original E2414H.inf file. So I just edited it as suggested, and also, in Device Manager, selected the "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install" option. This now worked and listed just "Plug and Play Monitor" and "Dell 2414H (Analog - VGA)", so of course I chose the latter, and everything worked as described.
Thank you so much.
zmikecollins
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December 17th, 2014 14:00
This worked well for me when I used the EnTech "Dell Monitor Driver Installer" which was located in the
driver folder where I saved the the edited inf file (as above). Thanks.
Mike Collins