Minor Resolution problem

I just got a new LCD monitor to replace my old CRT monitor.

the problem is the LCD doesn't support the resolution i used to have on the CRT which was 1280x1024
the maximum resolution on the LCD is 1280x768.

well i have XP and vista dual booted and when i put up the new monitor i did everything in XP and totally forgot about doing the same thing for vista

so now my problem is when i try to log into vista i get a "Frequency out of range" because the vista resolution is 1280x1024 but now i have no idea how to fix it...

any ideas?

Hi hatehereyes,

If you still have your CRT monitor and it is still working, temporarily reconnect it to your PC and boot up into Vista. Right-click on a blank spot on the desktop and select 'Personalize'. From the screen that appears, select 'Display Settings'. Change the resolution to 800 x 600 and click 'Apply'. Next, click 'Advanced Settings...' and select the 'Monitor' tab from the resultant screen. Under 'Screen refresh rate:', set this to 60 Hertz and then click 'OK' twice to exit the dialogue boxes. Next, shut down and reconnect your LCD monitor to your PC. Restart your machine and follow the above instructions. This time, set the resolution to be equal to the native resolution of your monitor (refer to the monitor manual), but leave the refresh rate at 60 Hertz. Because of the difference in technology between CRT and LCD displays, the refresh rate isn't as important. Basically, a CRT display is scanned by an electron beam and at any instant of time only one group, or triad, of red green and blue pixels is illuminated. When the electron beam moves to the next group, the light intensity of the previous group starts to decay. In order to prevent it decaying altogether, the refresh rate needs to be set so that the pixels are constantly refreshed, and, thanks to a feature of our sight known as 'persistance of vision', this is achieved by using the same technology as is found in TVs, albeit at a higher frequency. This is why, if you have the refresh rate too low, you may notice the screen flicker. An LCD display operates in a different way. Basically, each pixel remains active or inactive until it receives a signal to switch its state, so the problem of refresh is virtually eliminated.
Dwarf

thanks for the reply.

before i created this thread that was the only idea i could think of but was just to lazy to get the crt monitor out of the garage since it's heavy and stuff and was under a bunch of things but i figured it was the only way so that's what i did this morning.

but thanks again for the information.

And did it fix your little problem?

yes it did.