******* THIS SCALING FIX IS FOR THE HZ27WC, tested with Windows 7 or Vista ONLY *********
******* ALTHOUGH THIS IS A SOFTWARE FIX, PLEASE USE AT OWN RISK!!!! **********
My first recommendation would be for you to create your own inf files using my guide below. However, here is my own inf file for you guys to try on your own rigs. Remember windows will say that the monitor inf file is not digitally signed - that's because I made it for personal use. You can look through the inf file though in a text editor like notepad and see that there's nothing but the usual monitor timings stuff.
DOWNLOAD MY OWN WORKING INF FILE FOR HAZRO HZ27WC HERE
Perhaps it would be best to write a short guide as to what I did and then you guys can do the same, using your own monitor's EDID as a foundation for the alterations?
I read this page. This guide is essential reading. Don't attempt to do any of the following untill you's looked at it. If you read it, you'll have a working monitor and be wiser too!
I found the
Apple Cinema Display 27" EDID and compared it to Hazro's which has similar functionality. In Apple's, the only big difference was that they had no "standard timings" entries. So I decided to copy my Hazros EDID and remove them like Apple did. This is how I did it...
1) I downloaded the tools
as in the guide and grabbed my monitor's EDID readings from the registry in the tool called PHOENIX by looking under the tool menu (your monitor's entry should start with "HYO".
2) When this entry is loaded into PHOENIX it is in read only mode, so click on the tab called STANDARD TIMINGS and the pen to switch to EDIT MODE.
3) Now untick all of the STANDARD TIMINGS entries 1-4, then 5-8 by clicking on the wee dot at the bottom of same page. So that's 8 boxes to untick ok? The native resolution timings are held elsewhere in the EDID, and as there are no other supported resolutions for this monitor, these additional timings are useless.
4) I then SAVED my new EDID in PHOENIX as a "dat" file.
5) I then loaded this into the downloaded MONINFO tool, made sure it didn't complain about my file, and then immediately looked under FILE and chose CREATE INF.
6) Now we use this INF file to replace your monitors current driver. So to find the Device Manager, open Start, type devmgmt.msc and press Enter.
7) Select the monitor you want to change, right click and select Update Driver Software
8) Avoid the "Search automatically" option and instead chose "BROWSE MY COMPUTER FOR DRIVER SOFTWARE". Use the tried and true "Have Disk" method to select the included INF and install it, accepting any warnings.
9) Reboot. Scaling and resolution details should now appear correctly.
10) Hopefully your monitor will now behave as it should in windows, if not go to SAFE MODE and remove the fix under monitors by right-clicking and uninstalling.
BONUS
If you also want to change the name of the monitor from "SyncMaster" to Hazro, you can also do this in PHOENIX - just edit BLOCK 3 under DETAILED TIMINGS before saving your "dat" file. The new monitor name won't appear till after you've rebooted though.
lol as i copied and edited a HP 27" monitors inf and installed that.
