Windows 7 vs T260HD display

by wsg49 Aug 2, 2009 1:12AM PDT

Bought a new T260HD display to use in a new system running Windows 7 RC. The screen is nice and surprisingly bright but I've had a series of problems that I think are driver related. It won't come out of sleep mode, Windows sometimes sees the monitor as a SyncMaster and loads a generic PnP driver which is okay most of the time, other times it does not see the monitor at all, or sees extra monitors. I have no problems when using my ancient Sony monitor just the T260HD. If I use both monitors sometimes the T260HD is okay, othertimes it stays blank and the system starts up on what should be the #2 monitor (the Sony).

I went to the Samsung site and found there are no drivers for Windows 7, so I thought I'd try the Vista-64 driver. Unfortunately the drivers are included in an EXE that looks at your OS and it upchucks when it sees Windows 7. I can't find the Vista drivers standalone anywhere (and they may not work anyway). Anyone find a way to get a T260HD, T260, T240HD, or T240 to work with Windows 7?

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Windows 7 vs T260HD display

by Samsung_HD_Tech Samsung staff Aug 3, 2009 5:46PM PDT

wsg49,

It's a release candidate, so it's not even officially out. Which doesn't mean that we can't discuss it, and I'm in the process of bringing this to the attention of the product specialists for those monitors. I'll see what we can find on this. In the mantime, I would use the PnP driver that works best.

--HDTech

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Thanks for the help - got A driver

by wsg49 Aug 5, 2009 4:35AM PDT

Thanks. I think this is what is meant by the "bleeding edge of technology". Interesting that about an hour after I posted my message, Windows update said it had a driver for my monitor. I think it is actually a Vista driver since the date is 4/4/2008 version 3.0.0.0. It isn't perfect but it works and I can now wait until the official rollouts. If you have a beta driver, I'd be happy to try it. Same with the Color Pro software.

Still have a problem with it not finding the monitor at all on some cold bootups but I'll see if I can find a way to get Windows 7 to just keep the latest monitor setups and not reconfigure on every startup.

Thanks again.

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Thanks for the help - got A driver

by Samsung_HD_Tech Samsung staff Aug 5, 2009 7:44PM PDT

wsg49,

Hey, I'm good, but I'm not THAT good.

I'll see what I can find out about an updated driver.

--HDTech

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Thanks for the help - got A driver

by Samsung_HD_Tech Samsung staff Aug 7, 2009 3:29AM PDT

wsg49,

What connection are you using for the monitor?
What video card are you using?
What version of the RC are you using?

--HDTech

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T260HD with Windows 7

by wsg49 Aug 7, 2009 4:05AM PDT

I am using a DVI connection.
My videocard is a Gigabyte GV-N26OC-896H (GeForce GTX 260).
My version of W7RC is Build 7100.

Thanks for your help !

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Partial resolution

by wsg49 Sep 6, 2009 1:38AM PDT

Turns out that many of my problems were with the videocard. If anyone has a Gigabyte GTX260 or 275, go to their site and get the new bios for the adapter. (Turns out there were a lot of people with the same problem.) Also, note the update won't run in Windows 7 unless you use the Vista SP2 compatibility mode. At least now I can see the boot process which wasn't displaying before. So that was due to Gigabyte, not Windows 7 or Samsung.

Still have a problem when Windows 7 starts, half the time the monitor goes blank and the other half it is fine. Still checking to see if it is always every other time or random. Makes me think it is software, not hardware.

But making progress.

Windows 7 vs T260HD display

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