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.

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