Re: OT: My wierd PC

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:42:19 GMT, "ThePunisher"
<thepunisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Marky P wrote:
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.

What make/model is the new graphics card?

Can't remember exactly, but it's a Sapphire Radeon 512k thingy. Had
no box & driver disk doesn't say what model it is.

Marky P.

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