Hey
I got a monitor about 8 months ago from a competitor, used it fine for a while at native 1680x1050. Then a couple months ago it stopped allowing me to run native, giving various options above and below 1680x1050 but not itself.
It turns out to be the monitor not "sending" its preferred (or even allowable) resolution(s) to the PC - tried various VGA cables (not been able to test DVI yet) but it runs 1680x1050 fine through the xbox 360 and either my Eee or laptop when using a driver fix.
However, I'm now running on my 8800GT on my PC and it won't let me set the resolution. There's an option to add custom resolutions, and using that I can set to 1440x900 (so at least the aspect ratio is correct) but it just won't accept 1680x1050.
Any suggestions? I'm going to move to a DVI cable soon, but I'm literally flat broke (70p in my pocket) and that'll have to wait. Is there a different nVidia driver that will let me just use whatever I want, or any other way to hack it?
I got a monitor about 8 months ago from a competitor, used it fine for a while at native 1680x1050. Then a couple months ago it stopped allowing me to run native, giving various options above and below 1680x1050 but not itself.
It turns out to be the monitor not "sending" its preferred (or even allowable) resolution(s) to the PC - tried various VGA cables (not been able to test DVI yet) but it runs 1680x1050 fine through the xbox 360 and either my Eee or laptop when using a driver fix.
However, I'm now running on my 8800GT on my PC and it won't let me set the resolution. There's an option to add custom resolutions, and using that I can set to 1440x900 (so at least the aspect ratio is correct) but it just won't accept 1680x1050.
Any suggestions? I'm going to move to a DVI cable soon, but I'm literally flat broke (70p in my pocket) and that'll have to wait. Is there a different nVidia driver that will let me just use whatever I want, or any other way to hack it?
