Hook acer 23" monitor to dell latitude laptop

Tauri

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I have a old Dell Latitude 610 laptop running Windows XP that I want to hook to a new Acer 23" monitor. I've done all the appropriate cable hookups, but the monitor comes on saying "no signal" and when I go into the Laptop's control panel to the monitor section, the laptop doesn't seem to recognize that there is another monitor hooked to it.

Got any suggestions?
 

Tauri

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Feb 25, 2014
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4,510


What am I "pressing" to switch the video image? The Laptop doesn't recognize the Acer Monitor at all, even after going into Control Panel. After doing more research it appears the Acer Monitor's driver only works on Windows 7 or 8 and not on XP which is what the laptop has. I do not want to update to Windows 8 due to certain programs and hardware only working on XP. I've downloaded a program that "claims" to fix this but it's doubtful. Any other suggestions?