Apple Cinema Display Driver for Windows

I recently treated myself to an Apple Cinema Display. Its a great monitor and I’m really impressed with the clarity and colour depth, until I saw one in action I never would of considered using a flat screen monitor for anything where colour was important..
But, when I booted up in XP on bootcamp the resolution out and unchangeable (which surprised me considering I built the thing using the apple driver CD). The image was distorted and the definition was pretty blurry. So I started looking around on Google for Windows Drivers, which you will probably guess are bloody hard to come by. I did find a couple of tutorials for hacking together a custom driver from others, unfortunately, everyone I tried failed to work
After a few days I found a perfect solution which was also very easy to get results with. The what you will need to do;
- Download Powerstrip.
- Run the program and build a custom .inf file for you monitor.
- Go to your device manager and choose your monitor
(If your running off a MacBook you’ll probably have two, mine monitor was the top one in the list) - Choose update driver and choose your newly created .inf file.
Ta-Da, a monitor running at its native resolution.
I also unistalled Powerstrip application after I installed the driver without any problems either.
October 13th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Hi there
I have the exact same problem as you! BUT i can’t get powerstrip to make the driver. Can you send me the one you made?
Thanks!
//Christoffer
October 15th, 2007 at 2:22 am
I have uploaded the the Windows XP - Apple Cinema Display Driver (24inch) driver here.
I have no idea how customised this is to my machine (bootcamp / intel mac book pro), but feel free to give it a try.
www.suthen.com/__system/files/apple_24in_cinema_display_xp.inf