Leave the monitor as GENERIC....that's OK. Dell may not yet have drivers for your video card for VISTA....they will be different. I use NVIDIA video and they have a specific driver for VISTA X86 and X64. Like HP and printer drivers Dell is playing catch up with VISTA...keep in contact with Dell for the updated drivers for vista.
well if i was to right all the problems im having with vista id be here all night but the problem ive just started noticing is with the windows media player evrytime i try to play a mpg video the picture is very pixely and avi files the picture has a ghost and is slow it but i know that they were playing fine a couple of days ago when i had this sort of problem with xp it was due to the video drivers not being installed i have checked my video card and its installed as mobile intel(R)915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family which is right because thats what it was on xp but ive noticed that the monitor is Generic PnP Monitor and i dont know if thats right ive got a
dell insprion 1300

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