Cannot select 1440x900, please help :/

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 17:57

Howdy,

I've just acquired a monitor for my office pc (hanns g hw173d) nothing flash as the computer isn't either lol, the monitor says its recommended screen resolution is 1440x900 which suits me fine, but I can't select it.
It's connected to an intel 82945G with latest drivers, but the monitor shows as generic non pnp monitor, I can't find any drivers anywhere for the monitor whatsoever.
Running windows 7, is there a way to manually force the resolution? I remember you could on other os but can't find anywhere to do that on 7.

Any help appreciated

Cheers

Surveyor · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:26

You can try this:

Right click on the desktop and select screen resolution.

Click on advanced settings and then the Monitor tab.

Untick the box for 'Hide modes that this monitor cannot display'.

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:33

Sorry ment to mention I've tried that lol
Cheers though

Surveyor · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:59

Are you using the VGA connection?

Do you have a DVI connection you can try?

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 19:17

It's on VGA, the pc doesn't have dvi but I do hav a VGA to dvi cable as well I can try but don't think it would make any difference would it?

Surveyor · 28 Dec 2011 at 19:36

oO Stevie Oo said:
It's on VGA, the pc doesn't have dvi but I do hav a VGA to dvi cable as well I can try but don't think it would make any difference would it?

It'll be a DVI-I or DVI-A to VGA cable.

It wouldn't work the other way around.

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 19:54

Ah right well tried that cable and didnt work lol
I'm playing about with custom resolutions in powerstrip now but cant get the settings right :/

Surveyor · 28 Dec 2011 at 20:14

I found a Windows Vista driver here.

You can give that a go.

Right click on the monitor in Device Manager and select to update the driver.

Do a manual update and point it to the appropriate driver in the download.

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 20:18

Its ok mate cheers though
I've managed to get it working @ 1440x900 finally with powerstrip,
Basicly by clicking aload of different things lol
Windows says the refresh rate is 157hz though

surely thats not right as the monitor would say no signal as it has been all night?
It starting working when I selected force default refresh rate etc in powerstrip

Surveyor · 28 Dec 2011 at 20:29

The recommended refresh rate at 1440x900 is 60Hz though it appears it will do 75Hz as well.

157Hz would seem to be way off the mark.

Glad you got it working though

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 21:35

doh, I rebooted and monitor went out of range lol
reinstalled GPU driver, will give your driver above a go too,

Does anybody know how to configure powerstrip properly?

oO Stevie Oo · 28 Dec 2011 at 23:36

Ok noob error... powerstrip needs to be running to enforce the locked screen refresh rates, thats why I lost the screen on reboot, changed the preferences on powerstrip so it boots with windows and sorted, now running @ 1440x900 @ 60Hz

Surveyor · 29 Dec 2011 at 00:11

Hopefully it's not premature this time to congratulate you on getting it sorted.

oO Stevie Oo · 29 Dec 2011 at 00:42

rebooted about 20 times since, only a temporary solution though, although I only use this system for paperwork and processing the odd photo it could still do with updating lol