That Dell monitor is a monitor from 2013 (roughly) and I have been plugging in monitors since 1995 and never had to install any drivers for it to actually work at all short of a driver for the GPU to be able to display at the monitors native resolution. Just in case here is Microsofts explanation on how PnP works: There are some that come with drivers instead of using the standard Plug and Play monitor driver provided by Microsoft and will show up like this in the Device Manager: No modern monitor requires any special drivers to work properly. Or maybe there's a way to connect it to my laptop and use the new PC as an External Hard Drive, directly installing the files onto it using my laptop? I'm really just looking for some way to blindly get the monitor drivers onto my new PC.

Yes, I understand how monitors in general work, I'm asking why in this specific situation where the monitor has been proven to behave the same way when connected to two different machines (one of which I know for a fact has a perfectly functioning video card), you think it would be a video card issue? This seems very much to be a monitor that requires drivers to function properly. Assuming the monitor works, you then look at what the monitor is connected to. Even without specific drivers, you should see something. If that were the case, this would happen all of the time. Because monitors, generally, don't need specific drivers to actually show something on the screen.

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