Strange monitor 'Out of Range' issue?

Draeger

Draeger

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Hi,

I recently moved my wifes PC upstairs to our spare room and connected it up to my old LCD 1440x900 widescreen monitor. The PC had previously been connected to a 22" widescreen monitor at a far higher resolution.

When it booted to the desktop for the first time it reverted back to a lower resolution, I think it was about 800x600 and the desktop icons were all rearranged position wise. I tried switching to 1440x900 but that resolution wasn't listed in the display properties. After Googling this it would seem that Intel 945G boards running integrated on board graphics have a particular issue with running at 1440x900 as it was never written into the graphics driver to support it. They apparently launched a hotfix driver download to resolve this but I tried that and it didn't work.

I ended up downloading Powerstrip and trying to force the resolution that way but it didn't work particularly well and now after fiddling about with settings in Powerstrip when I boot up the monitor gets to the login screen and then just as the desktop is about to come up it says 'Out of range' and a black screen appears. I've tried booting into safe mode and changing resolutions there but if I boot back into normal windows mode after doing so it still shows 'out of range'. I eventually uninstalled Powerstrip in case it was changing something at start up but again it doesn't help, still shows 'out of range'.

Read online that a possible solution is to completely uninstall the graphics drivers and reinstall new ones. I've just tried that, uninstalled old driver and it eventually boots to the desktop which is fine. But as soon as I install the graphics driver again and reboot, despite the display settings being set to 800x600, when it boots back up with the new drivers installed it goes black once again and I get the 'out of range' message!!!.

HALP!!!!! :(
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
It mightn't be a strange frequency setting rather than a resolution setting might it?
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I think this is fairly likely as I did a fair bit of fiddling around with Powerstrip before this happened, including changing refresh rate frequency at one point. Is there any way to change that, it would seem whatever it is sat at may be hidden away somewhere, Registry perhaps?. As when I uninstall the drivers and it reboots to the desktop the refresh rate is greyed out and cant be adjusted in the Device Manager/Display Properties.

Strange though that if it is indeed the refresh rate causing the issue that completely uninstalling Powerstrip so its not even present at startup has still not solved the problem?. Or does Powerstrip change settings globally within the system and even if its removed the change remains?.
 
Hi,

Unfortunately that didn't seem to work either. I had a dig around and found an old 8400GS card and have now fitted that, installing the nvidia drivers as I type so hopefully that will have solved the issue. :)
 
Apologies for the late reply. My next suggestion was going to be to use some remote software to take a look at what's happening on screen when the monitor was out of range but I'd imagine the other card should handily solve the problem.
 
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