Vista Tutorial - Need 1680 x 1050 Resolution on GeForce 7150M

I just bought a new 22" LG Widescreen LCD that has a preferred resolution of 1680 x 1050. My integrated GeForce 7150M Graphics card for my laptop only shows support for up to 1600 x 1024 and so everything looks skewed as this is not one of the listed resolutions for my LCD.

I have already tried downloading and installing drivers(after uninstalling existing ones) from Nvidia, HP and LG and none of them seem to change this fact. I know(from Nvidia's web site) that this graphics card can handle other resolutions higher than this that are also not listed on my Display Adapters "List All Modes..." section.

I have a 64-bit vista operating system as well. This has been driving me crazy and i hope someone can help out... please. Otherwise i'll have to return the LCD and my dreams of having a big LCD monitor for my laptop will be forever lost!

Howdy armanjava,

When you try to change your display attributes is the software recognizing the model of your monitor, or is it just seeing 'generic'?

The LG drivers do not look like they take model numbers into account, but they may be meant to read them through PnP channels. It sounds like this isn't happening.

I got it to show both ways, but I had the same problem each time.

1) Generic Non-PnP Monitor on NVIDIA MCP67M
2) LG L227 on NVIDIA MCP67M

*NVIDIA MCP67M i believe is the correct model for my graphics card, Nvidia's auto-detect tool from their site confirmed this was the correct driver.

armanjava,

The names are synonymous apparently. One is for the standalone card, and the other for the planar-integrated chipset. I am guessing you have a Compaq, is that right? You might want to find out the motherboard model # and other information and post that (run system information from the administative tasks menu). Once you get the model #, you can try to get the technical specs for the video chipset, to see if indeed 1680 x 1050 is a supported resolution for your laptop. Don't lose the receipt for the LG monitor, though. You might have to shop for one that runs 1600 X 1024.

I am afraid I can't help you more. But there are a lot of smarter guys than me around in this site, so keep the faith.

The specific Graphic Card is a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M Integrated RAMDAC on an ATI ChipSet with Windows Vista Premium 64-bit. Bios Information: Version 5.67.32.16.6

Check your BIOS version, and make sure *all* hardware drivers are up to date....not just the video card....

Well, you see, this is the problem. Believe it or not, NVidia doesn't actually MAKE video cards. So, just saying what chipset is involved doesn't necessarily answer all the relevant questions.

They do make motherboards, but just knowing who sold your computer doesn't tell us whose motherboard was used to make the machine. Check here to see how to access your System Information . Look at the "System Model" this is usually the motherboard ID. Or take a picture and upload the whole thing.

Cheers.

Here is my system information. also, how do I make sure my all my hardware is up to date without trying to download new drivers for everything?

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ARMAN-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv2700 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-62, 2100 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.22, 3/24/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name Arman-PC\Arman
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.93 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.58 GB
Total Virtual Memory 8.04 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.58 GB
Page File Space 4.23 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Do you mean hardware? What you'vegot is pretty alright.

If you meant software, you need to go to each publisher's site to determine that. But software has gotten pretty good about nagging, I mean reminding, you when an update is available.

Let me see what I can find about this notebook, back soon.

Thanks Hogtowner! If it helps, the specific model number of the laptop is dv2845se.