I am struggling to setup a touch screen monitor and I hope there is someone out there that went through the same struggle, but with success. I have the touch screen hooked up to a laptop. I am using a serial to USB connector and downloaded the ELO universal driver and installed it. I am able to bring up a screen on the touch screen but it does not react to touches. So I connected a break-out box to see if there is any traffic going from the touch screen to the laptop. I have all the right green lights, but see no data comming from the touch screen. Of course, I do not have the manual for the touch screen, but it is a generic 17 inch screen with no obvious configuration parameters, other than the regular ...move left, right, darken screen and so on. I also tried a serial interface to the laptop, but the laptop keeps telling me there is no port available when I try to install the ELO driver for a serial interface. I hope someone is able to help me, because I spent countless hours with no luck. Thanks in advance.

There are basically two major types of touch screens. One is the elo and the other is some company in austin I think. Inside of the monitor is a jumper but you'd need the doc's to see what is what. The jumper is for the type of output. Be it elo and also for the port speed maybe the irq or port number too. (and it is dangerous to open the monitor due to shock and explosion hazard) I can almost assure you that you require the docs for that. Even if you get the jumpers right and you config your com port you might end up that your usb to com is too high of a com number. Might be that the touchpad on the laptop is also using the resources. I tried to port a diver for an old OS to a tablet so I learned a lot that way. We also use mainly ELO's at our plants on kiosk's but when we need a better pointer we have to delete the touchscreen and put a mouse on. (or visa versa) I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.