Hitachi INF won't allow 1600x1200

[tooslow]

I have an Asus P5L-MX motherboard with a built-in Intel 945 video card. Windows XP is installed. If I use the video driver that comes with XP, I can set the resolution to 1600x1200 and it runs fine, I just can't set the refresh rate because it sees a generic monitor. However if I load the driver from any source (vendor CD, website, etc) it then detects my Hitachi 2110M monitor, but the driver states that the maximum resolution is only 1280x1024.

Monitor specs from Hitachi state the max resolution is 1600x1200 and I'm even able to set it to 1600x1200 - 75 Hertz with nearly any flavor of Linux. I searched high and low for a new driver but am not able to find one. Any idea on how I can run off the latest driver and still run at 1600x1200? Maybe manually edit one of the driver files?

tooslow wrote:
> I have an Asus P5L-MX motherboard with a built-in Intel 945 video card.
> Windows XP is installed. If I use the video driver that comes with XP,
> I can set the resolution to 1600x1200 and it runs fine, I just can't set
> the refresh rate because it sees a generic monitor. However if I load
> the driver from any source (vendor CD, website, etc) it then detects my
> Hitachi 2110M monitor, but the driver states that the maximum resolution
> is only 1280x1024.
>
> Monitor specs from Hitachi state the max resolution is 1600x1200 and
> I'm even able to set it to 1600x1200 - 75 Hertz with nearly any flavor
> of Linux. I searched high and low for a new driver but am not able to
> find one. Any idea on how I can run off the latest driver and still run
> at 1600x1200? Maybe manually edit one of the driver files?
>
>

Don't most built in video systems use RAM from the MB rather than their
own? Could it be that you don't have enough RAM allocated for the new
driver for that resolution and colors???

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:11:35 -0500, tooslow
<tooslow.2u64t0@no.email.invalid> wrote:

>
>I have an Asus P5L-MX motherboard with a built-in Intel 945 video card.
>Windows XP is installed. If I use the video driver that comes with XP,
>I can set the resolution to 1600x1200 and it runs fine, I just can't set
>the refresh rate because it sees a generic monitor.

You don't mention what this monitor is exactly, if an LCD,
you may not need to set refresh rate. If not an LCD, you
might be able to pick some other monitor driver (INF file)
and have it work. However, you might lose most if not all
refresh rate settings because you are running at a fairly
high resolution w/basic integrated video.


>However if I load
>the driver from any source (vendor CD, website, etc) it then detects my
>Hitachi 2110M monitor, but the driver states that the maximum resolution
>is only 1280x1024.

Open up the monitor INF file in a text editor and see if
anything looks wrong.


>
>Monitor specs from Hitachi state the max resolution is 1600x1200 and
>I'm even able to set it to 1600x1200 - 75 Hertz with nearly any flavor
>of Linux. I searched high and low for a new driver but am not able to
>find one. Any idea on how I can run off the latest driver and still run
>at 1600x1200? Maybe manually edit one of the driver files?
>

yes, or pick a different monitor's INF file. Next question,
do you really want to run at high resolution if it requires
running at a fairly low, 75Hz refresh rate? That rate is
low enough it would give me a headache over time, on a CRT
tubed monitor.

"tooslow" <tooslow.2u64t0@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> I have an Asus P5L-MX motherboard with a built-in Intel 945 video card.
> Windows XP is installed. If I use the video driver that comes with XP,
> I can set the resolution to 1600x1200 and it runs fine, I just can't set
> the refresh rate because it sees a generic monitor. However if I load
> the driver from any source (vendor CD, website, etc) it then detects my
> Hitachi 2110M monitor, but the driver states that the maximum resolution
> is only 1280x1024.
>
> Monitor specs from Hitachi state the max resolution is 1600x1200 and
> I'm even able to set it to 1600x1200 - 75 Hertz with nearly any flavor
> of Linux. I searched high and low for a new driver but am not able to
> find one. Any idea on how I can run off the latest driver and still run
> at 1600x1200? Maybe manually edit one of the driver files?

You could always do this:

Right click on Desktop and choose "Properties". Go to the "Settings" tab and
click "advanced" button. On the monitor tab, untick "Hide modes that this
monitor cannot display". This will allow you to select any resolution or
refresh rate, but BEWARE - don't choose a resolution or refresh rate too
high for your monitor or you will have no display and its a trip into Safe
Mode to get it back!