I cant get my yoga11S(W8.1) to correctly recognize my S200HQL monitor, it thinks its generic monitor

Justin,

First thanks for replying. One of your colleagues sent me a link to a driver manager software.

thanks but that soft ware didnt even recognize the moniotrs. and i had already tried2 other driver managers, but they all want a service contract, and I should need to pay for that just to get a moniotr to work.

I did down load the drivers, and dbl checked them a few times.

I used the grpahics display advanced settings to update the driver manually by pointing to it, i even copied it into the same place as the generic driver. it just wouldnt stick.

I had to return the monitors beacuse the 15 day return policy at bestbuy was up. during that time, I spent about 30 hours, seriously, trying to solve the problem, I just didnt want to give up, and I was learning alot

I read a lot of posts on many difffernt websites by people who had the same problem, and the popular reasons why windows couldnt find the driver were, windows 8 controller would not redirect to the Acer driver location, and that the DDC acer controller didnt help, it was also blamed for makinhg the screen to bright. then there were a lot of posts aimed at the driver manufacturer for not updating their drivers.

I got the impression that the S200HQL monitor was being discontinued by acer.

I had concluded that I need to go with company that didnt have 100 postings by people who were having compatibilty issues. but I am now looking at the Acer 21.5 touch screen, its one of tghe best deals out there for touch screens.

So i need to have confidence that its going to load up.

I know these posts are two years old, but it doesnt sound good.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-tms/windows-8-touch-screen-problems/c7140b63-b824-453b-b975-1eb3464a946e

TigerDirect has the best price, and 1 good review, and the bad review might be the owners fualt but their description of the Acer support experience is not uncommon.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8870113&CatId=11877

there are sites out there with very good reviews, but I didnt see any mentinos of installing it with windows 8.1?

Suggestions?

my fist laptop was an acer, that was 15 years ago,it was awesome, and it still works except the power cablejack became loose and its only powers up about 10% of the time. computer repair shops saiud it would cost more to fix it then it would to buy a new laptop of comparable speed.