Resolution problem

[tundra]

A friend of mine has been having a problem with his resolution, he wants 1680x1050 on his Samsung sm 226bw but the biggest res he go upto is 1600x1200. The gfx is a hd5770 and he's installed the latest drivers but it hasn't solved the problem, he used to do something before to get 1680x1050 but he's forgotten.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[namorismo]

Where is he selecting his resolution?

1600x1200 is a 4.3 aspect ratio, sounds to me like he needs to select 16.10 aspect to get the widescreen resolutions to appear.

 

[Orcvader]

According to the Samsung site, it should be able to go 1680x1050. Have you tried using Catalust Control Center?
It shouldn't matter, but is he connected by DVI or VGA?

 

[mogwai]

Is he using the actual Samsung monitor driver or just the Generic Plug and play monitor driver. If it is the latter this could explain why not all supported resolutions are available.

 

[Kanpai]

Is he using XP by any chance? I know a few people had this problem on XP and had to manually enter the resolutions in regedit to get them working ;o