Guest Alethea Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 I am looking for some assistance regarding my Acer 19" Widesreen monitor. I just bought this wonderful monitor and when I tried to set it to the resolution 1440X900, well, it dosen't exist. My operating system is Windows XP home edition version 2002. I am going to assume that my computer has all the updates. My question is; would this be a video card issue or if this is a computer hard drive issue. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated! -- A~
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: 1440X900 Not Available On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:46:14 -0700, Alethea <Alethea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I am looking for some assistance regarding my Acer 19" Widesreen monitor. I > just bought this wonderful monitor and when I tried to set it to the > resolution 1440X900, well, it dosen't exist. My operating system is Windows > XP home edition version 2002. I am going to assume that my computer has all > the updates. > > My question is; would this be a video card issue Very likely. You have a wide-screen monitor, but if the video card is a few years old, it was produced before such wide-screen resolutions existed, and doesn't have support for them. > or if this is a computer > hard drive issue. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated! > -- > A~ -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Jim Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: 1440X900 Not Available "Alethea" <Alethea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8C86399E-DCE1-42A1-A0CE-D7F4720283E5@microsoft.com... >I am looking for some assistance regarding my Acer 19" Widesreen monitor. >I > just bought this wonderful monitor and when I tried to set it to the > resolution 1440X900, well, it dosen't exist. My operating system is > Windows > XP home edition version 2002. I am going to assume that my computer has > all > the updates. > > My question is; would this be a video card issue or if this is a computer > hard drive issue. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated! > -- > A~ Its a video card issue. Yours does not support this resolution. Jim
Guest Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: 1440X900 Not Available Video card issue. Look for latest drivers from the manufacturer's site. -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog http://www.winhelponline.com/blog "Alethea" <Alethea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8C86399E-DCE1-42A1-A0CE-D7F4720283E5@microsoft.com... >I am looking for some assistance regarding my Acer 19" Widesreen monitor. >I > just bought this wonderful monitor and when I tried to set it to the > resolution 1440X900, well, it dosen't exist. My operating system is > Windows > XP home edition version 2002. I am going to assume that my computer has > all > the updates. > > My question is; would this be a video card issue or if this is a computer > hard drive issue. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated! > -- > A~
Guest Paul Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: 1440X900 Not Available Alethea wrote: > I am looking for some assistance regarding my Acer 19" Widesreen monitor. I > just bought this wonderful monitor and when I tried to set it to the > resolution 1440X900, well, it dosen't exist. My operating system is Windows > XP home edition version 2002. I am going to assume that my computer has all > the updates. > > My question is; would this be a video card issue or if this is a computer > hard drive issue. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated! Video interfaces have programmable resolution options. Sometimes the driver does not provide a mode the user is looking for, in which case, a later driver might include it. Tools like Powerstrip, from Entechtaiwan, make it possible to set custom resolution values, but this does not work for every video device, and is more likely to work with ATI or Nvidia video cards. In some cases, this is an issue with the DVI versus the VGA connector. Some video cards are known to not support high resolutions on DVI digital output properly (due to the DVI output being non-compliant and unable to operate at the full 165MHz pixel clock rate). So the driver may be modified, to hide the fact that the hardware is inferior. The VGA analog is more likely to be able to do it, when the DVI digital cannot. (One of the reasons, if I'm shopping for an LCD monitor, I want both VGA and DVI on it, so I have the flexibility to choose if there is trouble.) http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1367922,00.asp http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/tft-connection,931-18.html The monitor is a plug and play device. The EDID information, which comes across the DDC/CI serial interface on the monitor cable, carries plug and play information from the monitor. Sometimes, the driver for the video, is not using the information properly or doesn't seem to see it. In those cases, sometimes the symptoms change, when a "monitor driver" is used. This consists of a tiny download, from the LCD monitor manufacturer. One thing it has, is a registry entry for the maximum monitor resolution. It also contains a color management file, intended to make pictures render in their true colors, in applications like Photoshop. Not every monitor maker provides the drivers. Some insist, that the plug and play interface on the monitor, is all that the user could possibly need. They are wrong of course, because otherwise, we would not be looking for the stupid monitor driver. On my own computer, the video driver did not "recognize" the monitor initially, treating it as a generic monitor. Once I installed the 6KB download from NEC for the monitor driver, at least the monitor brand name and model number are now displayed in the Display control panel. Since you've provided neither the model number of the Acer monitor, nor details about the video card (or in the case of integrated motherboard video, the motherboard model), it isn't possible to provide further comments. To see the EDID information coming from the monitor, you can use this application from Entechtaiwan.com . It should be showing the 1440x900, and if so, then at least the monitor is telling the computer, what it is capable of. "Monitor Asset Manager" http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm HTH, Paul
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