About Samsung 2494HM display driver

Hi folks,

AMD phenom II X4 955
mobo "“ Asus M4A78T-E
Samsung 2494HM display
Win 7 32 and 64 bit

I have been googling more than an hour to find the driver to download on Samsung official website without result. What I found are as follows;

Official Samsung Drivers
http://driverwhiz.com/drivers-en-mc...-90000000789&gclid=COHE6sXzjKICFYUeHAodFlpIVg

Samsung 2494HM drivers
http://www.massdrivers.com/dir/375971.html

They are NOT Samsung official website. Please point me the correct URL. TIA

B.R.
satimis

 

There's no need to download monitor drivers now until you have a very obscure monitor with some feature which the OS doesn't support out of the box or you want to see the name/model no. of your monitor in the Device Manager.

 

Hi folks,

Thanks for your advice.


Win 7 64 bit

The driver on;
http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/suppor...e=&prd_ia_cd=05027203&model_cd=&menu=download


doesn't work for me. The display doesn't work properlty leaving a border of 1" width on both sides and ½" on top and bottom.

Display:
1. SyncMaster (selected)
2. Display device on: VGA

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (recommended) (correct resolution)

This LCD display provides HDMI interface
Onboard Video "“ Integrated ATI Radeon HD3300 GPU

Adapter Type
ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics

It is correct.

Do I need install all drivers on;
Windows 7 64 bit
http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?product=1&model=M4A78T-E
?

Besides;
- Onboard RAM "“ 8G
(only detecting 4G)

- No sound on the LCD display built-in loudspeaker


Hi Christer,

There is no driver for Win 7 on the CD coming with the display.

only driver for Windows standard version;-
SyncMaster 2494HM/2494HS/2494HSI(Analog)
SyncMaster 2494HM/2494HS/2494HSI(Digital)

No driver for HDMI


B.R.
satimis

 

Hi,

I think the problem on display and sound come from 64bit Win 7 and 64 bit Vista.

This PC is a virtual machine having 2 hard drives, say drive-A and drive-B. Previously drive-A ran 32 bit Vista. It worked without problem both on sound and on display (HDMI) but only detecting 4G RAM (it has 8G RAM on board). So I removed 32bit Vista and reinstalled 64 bit Win 7. Now problem on display (HDMI) and sound occurred, no sound.

Just checked drive-B, the virtual machine, with 32/64 bit XP, 32/64 bit Vista and 64 bit Win7 running on it. Both 32/64 bit XP and 32 bit Vista don't have sound problem. Both 64 bit Vista and 64 bit Win 7 have sound problem. I can conclude that the problem of sound comes from the 64 bit version except XP. I haven't got time testing HDMI on all 32 bit Windows there.


Edit:

If HDMI doesn't work then the built-in speakers on the display won't work via the HDMI cable.

On drive-B, the virtual machine, 64 bit Ubuntu 10.04 Linux is running as host. It works nicely on both sound and HDMI display without additional driver installed. The built-in speakers on the display are working via the HDMI cable. They don't need additional cable for connection.


B.R.
satimis

 

Hi,

No, I have problem running 64 bit Win 7 on both virtual machine as well as native machine (This PC has 2 hard drives, one running as virtual machine and the remainder only running 64 bit Win 7 Ultimate. They are NOT running at the same time. This PC is solely for testing software)

Thanks. I'm aware of that. There are 38 VMs (guests) running on this virtual machines. Most of them, being headless servers, running Linux and Unix OS. Graphic and sound are NOT important to them. But they are important to Windows VM (guest). The tests are done on Linux workstations on LAN remotely connected to Windows VM.

Just called Asus local support office and they confirmed that no audio drivers are available for 64 bit Vista and 32/64 bit Win 7.

The onboard sound card is VIA VT1708S. The driver on the 64 bit Win 7 Ultimate here is also VIA driver. But it can't work.

The onboard video card is ATI Radeon HD3300 GPU. The driver provided by 64 bit Win 7 Ultimate is also correct. But it can't support HDMI interface of the Samsung LCD display.

What surprises me most is the 64 bit Win 7 Ultimate only detects 4G RAM. I have 8G RAM sticks on 4 dimm slots.

I think I have to going back to 32 bit Vista on this drive.

Thanks


Edit:

Do you have problem on HDMI interface?

B.R.
satimis

 

Got no problems with HDMI yet. You don't require any driver for HDMI or for any output. Just connect the cables & off you go. I would check the cable first.

Also update the driver from ati.com & see if it solves your problem.

Any flavour of 64 bit OS should detect more than 4 GB RAM without any problem. Check your BIOS for setting.

 

satimis,

Just re-read your posts.

In one post [#5] you have posted

Display:
1. SyncMaster (selected)
2. Display device on: VGA

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (recommended) (correct resolution)

The Display device is VGA & not ATI. This indicates that the drivers for your motherboard have not been installed correctly. Install those drivers & update the drivers from amd.com/ati.com.

Anyway HDMI should work with/without drivers.

 

Partially Solved

Hi folks,

Lot of thanks for your advice.

After heavy fiddling, Windows 7 64 bit seems starting to work properly.

Sound comes back. 2 built-in speakers on display are now working via the HDMI cable.

Settings:

Code:

Sound, video and game controller
-> High Definition Audio Device

driver File Details
Provider: Microsoft
File version; 6.1.7600.16385(win7_rtm.090731-1255)

Display adapters
-> ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics

8G Physical RAM displayed.


Remark:

Code:

Actually there was no problem on the BIOS as well as on the HDMI cable.  
This PC is a dual boot machine.

Drive-A running 64 bit Windows 7
Drive-B a virtual machine running Sun VirtualBox as virtualizer with 
the host running 64 bit Linux Ubuntu 10.04.  The host was and is 
working without problem.

Now leaving behind the problem is 4 dark borders on 4 sides of the screen. I can't figure out how to fix this problem. Any advice? TIA


I have been testing 5 Windows (32/64 WinXP, 32/64 Vista and 64 Win 7) on this virtual machine, running simultaneously with 5 windows displaying on the same screen. There are some interesting discovery. After sorting out the notes taken down during testing I'll post my finding here. Thanks

B.R.
satimis

 

Many people seem to have the same problem. A quick search on google threw quite a pageful of comments & questions.

 

Hi rsinfo and folks,


Possibly the problem comes from MS Windows 7

On Desktop
-> right click -> Personalization - Desktop Background (on the bottom)

Under "Picture postition "
"Center" - (only this option works)

selecting other options has no function.


We, as users, can do nothing. Our hands are tighted. We can't touch the core of Windows OS even we have knowhow. Dislike Linux/Unix/BSD and other Open Source software we are allowed changing the core if we have knowhow or even building a new software based on them for our own use. In the past I built my own Linux/BSD OS, LinuxFromScratch.


I think we have to waiting for MS to fix this problem. It took me 3 days to discover the cause of this problem and to make Windows 7 to work.


B.R.
satimis