Samsung 226BW help...

HummuH1 · 29 Mar 2007 at 11:23

Hi all,

Got my new Samsung 226BW and I'm delighted with it. It's ****** huge! However, I'm having one annoying teething problem.

I'm running the monitor off a 7800GTX through DVI, over a normal DVI cable. When I first hooked the monitor up, no problems.

However, I cannot change my screen resolution to match the native of the monitor, 1680x1050. The option isn't there for me to select. Closest I can get is 1600x900 which is wrong aspect ratio.

I have tried reisntalling graphics and monitor drivers and I've tried to add it as a custom resolution but it won't accept it, at any refresh rate.

I know my card can output this resolution, Nvidia have confirmed this, but why won't it let me? Also, I think because of this, my favourite game GR:AW is not showing any widescreen formats in the video options.

I would rather have a true 16:10 ratio than 16:9 stretched.

Any help will be greatly apprecaited.

HummuH1 · 29 Mar 2007 at 14:30

allosunshine said:
Have you installed the driver fromt he Samsung website. Here's a link if you haven't.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/p...code=300101&model=226BW&filetype=DR&language=

Assuming its the same one on the CD provided (the download is version 1.0 - so it looks like it is) then yes.

Going to try and uninstall the Nvidia drivers then reload and see if that gets me anywhere.

HummuH1 · 29 Mar 2007 at 15:04

Bin Boy said:
browse.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17703833&page=1

Have done already.

I looked at your posts but because you cant see the first part of the thread and I can't get the pictures in that thread as I'm at work,I could really tell what you were solving. I guess what you are suggesting is manually adjusting the timing and/or adding a new custom res setting. Is that right? As per my post, I've tried that and it didn't work.

As I can't see the first part of that thread, did you have the same problem? If so, will your post (when I can see the pic's) give me a fix do you think?

Cheers.

HummuH1 · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:17

I've tried the "Bin Boy" process and that doesn't work for me as it wont accept 1680x1050 60Hz as a custom resolution.

However, I uninstalled the Nividia drivers and when re-booted, I had the option to select 1680x1050. Great. But, when I installed the 93.71 drivers again (even tried 93.81 Beta) the option to select that res disappears.

Any ideas?

Could it be that I've got an old DVI port talking to a newer DVI-D port? Would that cause an issue?