vista - unsupported monitor resolution?

Billzz · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:00

Hi all,

I have just installed Vista Home Premium with no problems except that my monitor's native resolution of 1680x1050 doesn't seem to be supported (or at least is unavailable in display preferences). My monitor is a Belinea 20" and my video card is a 850XTPE. Anybody any ideas as to why this might be or what I could try? XP Pro supports the resolution no problem so does my Mac.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

andshrew · 27 Jan 2007 at 13:39

Have you tried installing the latest ATI drivers off their web site?

Billzz · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:01

Yes I installed them a couple of days ago. They are only beta drivers though - which may be causing the issue.

andshrew · 27 Jan 2007 at 15:16

Possibly, I know some of the nvidia beta drivers didn't allow me to select 1440x900 resolution but I hadn't heard of resolution problems from ATI users. Unless anyone else knows how to solve this I guess the only thing to do is wait for the final drivers, shouldn't be to long now

Billzz · 27 Jan 2007 at 15:39

Problem solved! I swapped monitor cables and all seems fine now. Strange that XP was working fine with the old one though .. oh well :confused:

csmager · 27 Jan 2007 at 16:43

Quite often, going into the advanced settings and unticking the box 'hide modes this monitor cannot display' will result in the right mode being shown. Just random monitor driver issues, possibly. Happened to me in RC2 (but not RC1, strangely).