1. The Dell Original Configuration page: *Note: this will ony work for North American customers*
(i) Go to Dell support site;
(ii) Select Home and Home Office, and on this new page login to your account (or register by following the links);
(iii) Now select Services and Warrenties located on the right of your 'homepage';
(iv) Now you will now find a series of tabs, click on Original System Configuration, enter your service tag as prompted (if you have already associated the serice tag with your account you can just select it).
(v) Congratulations, you should be able to see your full system specs as shipped, including your screen manufacturer.
3. Registry:
Run the registry editor, if you don't know how (For Windows XP):
(i) Click Start
(ii) Select run
(iii) In the presented field, type "regedit" without the quotation marks and click OK
(iv) Look under the following field using the + extensions on the left:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY
(v) Hopefully you will see one of the following codes:
=> One with HTC will be the Hitachi brand (such as the HTC1C46 WSXGA Display)
=> One with SHP will be the Sharp brand
=> One with SEC will be the Samsung brand (such as the SEC3150 WSXGA Display)
=> I am not sure exactly what Toshiba will be (TSH?) So I will need some feedback here, including any other brands you all find.
Sometimes your manufacturer will not be displayed in the registry, and you will be faced with 4 or 5 "Default Monitor's"... we are not sure why this happens exactly, but if you find this is the case move onto another one of the methods.
4. System Information tools:
System Info tools such as Aida32 and Fresh Diagnose will give you full system specifications, including the screen manufacturer one would hope. But unfortuntely if your registry doesn't list your screen manufacturer, these tools probably won't either because most of them get a lot of their info from the registry anyway.
I tried the above three ways, but couldn't find any info about the manufacture. It all display default.
Any other easy way to find out??
Thanks
(i) Go to Dell support site;
(ii) Select Home and Home Office, and on this new page login to your account (or register by following the links);
(iii) Now select Services and Warrenties located on the right of your 'homepage';
(iv) Now you will now find a series of tabs, click on Original System Configuration, enter your service tag as prompted (if you have already associated the serice tag with your account you can just select it).
(v) Congratulations, you should be able to see your full system specs as shipped, including your screen manufacturer.
3. Registry:
Run the registry editor, if you don't know how (For Windows XP):
(i) Click Start
(ii) Select run
(iii) In the presented field, type "regedit" without the quotation marks and click OK
(iv) Look under the following field using the + extensions on the left:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\DISPLAY
(v) Hopefully you will see one of the following codes:
=> One with HTC will be the Hitachi brand (such as the HTC1C46 WSXGA Display)
=> One with SHP will be the Sharp brand
=> One with SEC will be the Samsung brand (such as the SEC3150 WSXGA Display)
=> I am not sure exactly what Toshiba will be (TSH?) So I will need some feedback here, including any other brands you all find.
Sometimes your manufacturer will not be displayed in the registry, and you will be faced with 4 or 5 "Default Monitor's"... we are not sure why this happens exactly, but if you find this is the case move onto another one of the methods.
4. System Information tools:
System Info tools such as Aida32 and Fresh Diagnose will give you full system specifications, including the screen manufacturer one would hope. But unfortuntely if your registry doesn't list your screen manufacturer, these tools probably won't either because most of them get a lot of their info from the registry anyway.
I tried the above three ways, but couldn't find any info about the manufacture. It all display default.
Any other easy way to find out??
Thanks
Confusing. Any ideas?
