Vista Tutorial - LCD Monitor Refresh Rates

Hi All,

I wonder if anyone can help. I am unable to set my widescreen monitor to
1680x1050, the option is available but only with a refresh rate of 75Hz
which it cant do. At lower resolutions the 60Hz option shows up. I have
tried this with both the microsoft driver, and the nvidia driver, also with
the generic plug and play monitor, and a windows xp inf for my monitor. Any
ideas?

Cheers
Zak

/Zak Humphries/ said:

> I wonder if anyone can help. I am unable to set my widescreen monitor to
> 1680x1050, the option is available but only with a refresh rate of 75Hz
> which it cant do. At lower resolutions the 60Hz option shows up. I have
> tried this with both the microsoft driver, and the nvidia driver, also with
> the generic plug and play monitor, and a windows xp inf for my monitor. Any
> ideas?

Check the monitor instructions for the "native resolution" and run it
thusly. Ignore the refresh rate on LCD monitors.

The native resolution is 1680x1050x60 (works perfectly under XP) its only in
vista rc1 that I am FORCED into a 75Hz refresh rate which the monitor cant
handle.

Cheers


"hb" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> /Zak Humphries/ said:
>
>> I wonder if anyone can help. I am unable to set my widescreen monitor to
>> 1680x1050, the option is available but only with a refresh rate of 75Hz
>> which it cant do. At lower resolutions the 60Hz option shows up. I have
>> tried this with both the microsoft driver, and the nvidia driver, also
>> with
>> the generic plug and play monitor, and a windows xp inf for my monitor.
>> Any
>> ideas?
>
> Check the monitor instructions for the "native resolution" and run it
> thusly. Ignore the refresh rate on LCD monitors.

Try Display Settings->Advanced Settings->List All Modes

If it's not there, I believe it means the driver is telling Windows that the
video card does not support it.

-Mike


"Zak Humphries" <zhumphries@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The native resolution is 1680x1050x60 (works perfectly under XP) its only
> in vista rc1 that I am FORCED into a 75Hz refresh rate which the monitor
> cant handle.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> "hb" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
> news:OoCn$mF0GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> /Zak Humphries/ said:
>>
>>> I wonder if anyone can help. I am unable to set my widescreen monitor to
>>> 1680x1050, the option is available but only with a refresh rate of 75Hz
>>> which it cant do. At lower resolutions the 60Hz option shows up. I have
>>> tried this with both the microsoft driver, and the nvidia driver, also
>>> with
>>> the generic plug and play monitor, and a windows xp inf for my monitor.
>>> Any
>>> ideas?
>>
>> Check the monitor instructions for the "native resolution" and run it
>> thusly. Ignore the refresh rate on LCD monitors.
>