Graphic Card resolutions

I have recently built a new Computer:

Intel Core Duo E6420
Intel DP965LT
Seagate 320gb HDD
Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
Windows Vista Home Premium

I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
Monitor correctly.
It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
determine the resolutions available
Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
that will display that resolution.

I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution

Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
resolution


Thanks for any help

DJT

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:49:22 +1000, DJT
<dtope@hotmail.com.au> wrote:

>I have recently built a new Computer:
>
>Intel Core Duo E6420
>Intel DP965LT
>Seagate 320gb HDD
>Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
>LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
>Windows Vista Home Premium
>
>I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
>Monitor correctly.
>It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
>Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
>determine the resolutions available

The video card is told what resolution to use by the driver.
So if you happened to have some buggy version of the driver,
you'd need to update the driver, but generally you would not
if the driver is at least roughly the same age as what
shipped with 7100GS video cards, you just have to wade
through all the Display Properties menus to find the custom
resolution setting page.



>Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
>that will display that resolution.
>
>I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>
>Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
>resolution

Yours will.

DJT wrote:
> I have recently built a new Computer:
>
> Intel Core Duo E6420
> Intel DP965LT
> Seagate 320gb HDD
> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
> Windows Vista Home Premium
>
> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
> Monitor correctly.
> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
> determine the resolutions available
> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
> that will display that resolution.
>
> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>
> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
> resolution
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> DJT

Dig out your search engine, and look for "Vista custom resolution". You'll
see various discussions, about the new control panel lacking certain features.
The "Classic" control panel might be able to do it, and again, you might
find a recipe somewhere, for how to enable the classic control panel,
for a specific driver release.

A guy here (bottom post), mentions adding a registry hack, to the install,
to add resolutions. I don't see why this would be necessary, since the driver
should be able to support anything thrown at it. If the previous driver
had a custom resolution capability, it means that if a standard resolution
(such as might be passed by the EDID from the monitor, or the monitor driver)
is passed to the video card driver, it should be able to work out hardware
settings to make it happen.

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/188275.aspx

Fortunately, I don't have Vista here to test this :-) I'm a Win2K guy :-)

Paul

"DJT" <dtope@hotmail.com.au> wrote in message
news:409t93hp57qea8h2gopc73m9jvsjaam0mo@4ax.com...
>I have recently built a new Computer:
>
> Intel Core Duo E6420
> Intel DP965LT
> Seagate 320gb HDD
> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
> Windows Vista Home Premium
>
> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
> Monitor correctly.
> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
> determine the resolutions available
> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
> that will display that resolution.
>
> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>
> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
> resolution
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> DJT

1440x900 = 1.6 aspect ratio which is fairly common for a card
now..............7600GT a good value card etc

"DJT" wrote:
>I have recently built a new Computer:
>
> Intel Core Duo E6420
> Intel DP965LT
> Seagate 320gb HDD
> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
> Windows Vista Home Premium
>
> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
> Monitor correctly.
> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
> determine the resolutions available
> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
> that will display that resolution.
>
> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>
> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
> resolution

There is an application called, "powerstrip", which can sometimes bring
forward resolutions not listed in display properties. I used it on my ATI
card to enable widescreen; if none of the other suggestions pan out, you
might consider giving it a try.

Jon

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:15:13 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
<jonREMOVETHISdanniken@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"DJT" wrote:
>>I have recently built a new Computer:
>>
>> Intel Core Duo E6420
>> Intel DP965LT
>> Seagate 320gb HDD
>> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
>> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
>> Windows Vista Home Premium
>>
>> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
>> Monitor correctly.
>> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
>> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
>> determine the resolutions available
>> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
>> that will display that resolution.
>>
>> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>>
>> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
>> resolution
>
>There is an application called, "powerstrip", which can sometimes bring
>forward resolutions not listed in display properties. I used it on my ATI
>card to enable widescreen; if none of the other suggestions pan out, you
>might consider giving it a try.
>
>Jon
>
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try them and let you know how I
got on

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:24:28 +1000, DJT <dtope@hotmail.com.au> wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:15:13 -0700, "Jon Danniken"
><jonREMOVETHISdanniken@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>"DJT" wrote:
>>>I have recently built a new Computer:
>>>
>>> Intel Core Duo E6420
>>> Intel DP965LT
>>> Seagate 320gb HDD
>>> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
>>> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
>>> Windows Vista Home Premium
>>>
>>> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
>>> Monitor correctly.
>>> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
>>> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
>>> determine the resolutions available
>>> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
>>> that will display that resolution.
>>>
>>> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>>>
>>> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
>>> resolution
>>
>>There is an application called, "powerstrip", which can sometimes bring
>>forward resolutions not listed in display properties. I used it on my ATI
>>card to enable widescreen; if none of the other suggestions pan out, you
>>might consider giving it a try.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try them and let you know how I
>got on
I actually got it working OK.

The problem turned out to be the difference in available resolutions
between Analoge & Digital output.

When using the analoge DSub cable the resolution was not available.
I was switching between computers to setup programs and data.
When I plugged in the DVI cable additional resolutions became
available, one of which was the one required 1440*900


Thanks

DJT

DJT wrote:
> I have recently built a new Computer:
>
> Intel Core Duo E6420
> Intel DP965LT
> Seagate 320gb HDD
> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
> Windows Vista Home Premium
>
> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
> Monitor correctly.
> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
> determine the resolutions available
> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
> that will display that resolution.
>
> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>
> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
> resolution
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> DJT
The graphics card determines what settings you can use. I checked mine
and there is no such setting available also.

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:23:51 -0500, ProfGene
<mfevs@winco.net> wrote:

>DJT wrote:
>> I have recently built a new Computer:
>>
>> Intel Core Duo E6420
>> Intel DP965LT
>> Seagate 320gb HDD
>> Gigabyte nVidia 7100GS Graphics - Not a Gamer - Need 2D only
>> LG 19' LCD L194WT-ST Wide screen Monitor.
>> Windows Vista Home Premium
>>
>> I am a having problem with getting the correct resolution to drive the
>> Monitor correctly.
>> It needs 1440*900 to display correctly.
>> Is it a matter of getting the correct driver or does the graphics card
>> determine the resolutions available
>> Obviously I did not do my homework before hand to find a graphics card
>> that will display that resolution.
>>
>> I have looked at 3or 4 other cards but none quote that resolution
>>
>> Is there anywhere that I can a list of cards that will produce that
>> resolution
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> DJT
>The graphics card determines what settings you can use. I checked mine
>and there is no such setting available also.


The driver determines this, often only a newer driver is
needed and it is set in a custom resoutions area of the
driver control panel. All cards supported by modern ATI or
nVidia driver (for example) will support 1440x900.