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06-25-2022, 11:07am | #1 | ||||||
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Safe driver downloads
I have an old Acer touchscreen monitor and need the driver for a replacement computer.
What is a trusted site for getting drivers that the manufacturers no longer provide? |
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Good luck with that. Took me a week to find a driver for a mouse that was less than a year old. Got hundreds of hits doing a web search but I'd have to change my name to mrvette by clicking on those links. Ended up getting it from a manufacturer site written in Chinese. For whatever reason their English version didn't care to share that code. Scary shit.
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I was hoping I could just download the drivers from the internet, but I am not sure how sketchy these companies are. It is an Acer T230H and it's like new since it has not been used in years. |
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Find the disc you have transfer to flash drive... Otherwise it can be a shit show trying to find oddball drivers without some site trying to install bullshit as you know.
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If you old drivers are on DVD go get a cheap USB DVD drive. $15!!! When computers stopped coming with one I bought one to be able to access my old stuff. Works like a champ.
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Unless you need the touchscreen I don't think you'll need any drivers to make the monitor display. Usually monitor software is for on screen adjustments etc. and Windows and/or your video card takes care of the rest.
You should just be able to plug it in. All the video stuff is controlled by the video card driver etc. I just took our first flat monitor, 15 year old 17" Viewsonic and connected to my old Windows 10 laptop, didn't install any drivers and it worked fine. I used it to convert the old laptop to Ubuntu. |
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