Re: OT: My wierd PC

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:20:28 +0100, Resident Drunk
<Notsure@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:20:25 -0700, William <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 30 Jul, 17:09, Marky P <bromham_hospital_b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:37:18 +0100, Andrew <spamt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:11:48 +0100, Marky P
<bromham_hospital_b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Assuming you have an NVidia card in your PC, have you installed the
latest NVidia graphic card drivers?
Yes. Several times. And to make things even weirder, I booted up my
old PC, which has an old nVidia card in, and downloaded the latest
driver for that. Now my old PC can provide perfect geometry on my
widescreen monitor (though not at the correct resolution) yet my new
PC with new graphics card and latest driver can't even do that. Oh,
and seeing as I could watch DTT on my PC and correct geometry would be
important for doing that, I now announce this thread as on topic :-)
What monitor does Windows say you have and what resolutions are
available to change to?
Windows call my monitor a generic non PnP. Also states max resolution
as 1600x1200 which is not possible as it's too high. The max for my
monitor is 1440x900 acording to the instructions. Using 1600x1200
causes monitor to display 'out of range'. All other available
resolutions are:
800x600
960x600
1024x768
1152x864
1280x768
1280x800
1280x960
1280x1024
1360x768
1600x1200

None of the provide the correct aspect ratio except for 960x600, but
that looks like crap.

Marky P.- Hide quoted text -

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1) Have you tried setting the monitor to "Generic PnP".

2) 1280 x 800 is also the same ratio as 1440 x 900. In the absence of
the correct setting, I'd go for the 1280 x 800.
I did try this setting, but then the screen doesn't fit on the
monitor! Really bizarre. Th screen disappears off the bottom of the
monitor.

Marky P.


Mark,

Search for Powerstrip - it will allow you to set a custom resolution in
Vista.

I've got Powerstrip, but it didn't work as the latest nVidia driver
doesn't accept forced resolutions! Anyway, don't matter now as i'm
sorted. Got a new graphics card of a friend of a friend for free and
now I get 1440x900 resolution and is fine & dandy :-)

Marky P.

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