Re: Help with setting a Widescreen TFT up on PC



In article <4387102c$0$82642$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, The
Snaffler says...
> I have just bought a 19" LCD TV and connected my PC to the VGA
> connection on the LCD. The PC has a basic 32Mb Intel 82810
> graphics card and is running XP SP2.
>
> Looking at the screen properties under XP (even listing all hidden options
> and modes) it only seems to give me a max resolution of 1024x768 (XGA)
> but the spec for the TV says its native resolution is 1280x768 (WXGA)
> which is what I'd like - making use of the full widescreen monitor.
>
> Please help beacuse I have black bars either side and I might well have not
> bothered getting widescreen if the PC cannot recognise it or be adjusted!!
>
You need to use something like Powerstrip to create a custom .inf file
for the TV which "should" then allow your graphics card to select the
resolution.


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