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I installed it right and all, but now (since I was using another monitor before while I was awaiting the cable) windows doesn't detect my monitor. It just sees it as a "default monitor." I went into safe-mode and deleted all monitors there (A sony we have, the NEC I have, and the default I was using) Went back into windows and it still found it as a default monitor. Normally if find it as an NEC FP950 and asks for the drivers, but nope. I tried manually installing the drivers (via device manager) and no go.

It's not that it bothers me much but I can't change the refresh-rate in windows because of it. Got any ideas? It does look great though. I can definitly tell a difference in how crisp the characters on the sreen are. Can't say if the colours are any more "vibrant" or anything, but everything sure is sharp.

This is a normal problem ... BNC only uses the 5 wires needed to display a picture, the 3 RGB colors plus vertical and horizontal signal.
The 15-pin cables have more wires for extra signals to allow the auto detection of monitor type.

Do you have the monitor INF file for your monitor? Can you manually change the driver for your monitor?
I know that my Radeon 64VIVO had some drivers many months ago that did not allow manually changing your monitor when it wasn't detected and it forced DEFAULT MONITOR, though this was luckily fixed a few weeks in another driver release.

Try to update your monitor drivers, it doesn't have to be in safe mode, get the monitor inf from the manufacturer and select HAVE DISK and then point to the inf file.

There we go....I just went and did it another way. Instead of going through device manager and trying it, I went into display properties->advanced->monitor and clicked "Change" The clicked "have-disk" selected the CD-ROM, the selected the right model and it installed perfectly.

Thanks for the suggestions, it sparked somethin' up in the brain I tried copying the one and only inf file I saw on the disk and that didn't help (even though I think that one .inf file contains all the info I needed, I was just doing it wrong before ) Thanks again