I also have a View sonic 2230 and I have no trouble getting it to display at
its native resolution with my Nvidia 8500GT card on Vista 32bit Home premium
(SP1) using the 169.25 Nvidia drivers from the Nvidia Website. You might
have to select "show all modes" in the Nvidia control panel in order to get
the native resolution if it is not showing up.
"Square" <Square@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi, this has been an ongoing problem since I got the monitor and I have
> had
> no luck at my graphics card website and monitor website.
>
> My system specs:
> Vista Home Basic 64x (Version: 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001)
> AM2 Fatal1ty moherboard
> Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+, 3200 Mhz, 2
> Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
> BIOS Version/Date: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 7/31/2007
> SMBIOS Version: 2.2
> Graphics card: GeForce 8800 GTS eVGA driver version: 178.13
> Monitor: ViewSonic VG2230wm 22''
>
> Problem:
> System does not properly recognize the monitor on initial OS boot, the
> BIOS
> displays and the windows loading bar appears but right as the login is
> supposed to appear the monitor loses its signal. When I used my secondary
> monitor with this the system was recognizing my VG2230wm as (Default
> Monitor)
> but would not turn on even after clicking Attach. When I unplug and plug
> it
> back in the monitor correctly displays that it is a ViewSonic VG2230wm but
> has none of the correct resolutions, it only displays 800x600 and
> 1024x768. I
> have tried the drivers that came with the monitor, the newest ones from
> the
> website, (Which dont work, everytime I try to install the signed 64x
> monitor
> driver it says the monitor could not be found, same with unsigned
> drivers). I
> have tried installing the newest graphics card drivers and reverting to
> old
> ones where i knew the monitor had worked randomly before, but nothing now.
> I
> am stuck, i have tried flashing my BIOS to the new version, updating all
> my
> motherboard drivers. swapping ports during boot up process at different
> intervals. Pretty much everything I have thought of with the exception of
> formating my windows drive, I did that before and no dice the first time I
> saw this issue. I am assuming it is a graphics card driver issue or a
> windows
> vista 64x issue.
>
> Any Ideas?