Vista - Going mad, vista 32 bit resolution restart problems

Hi, is there someone who can help me before I throw this thing out the
window? My pc auto. restarts, every thurs. after doing downloads. The
last few times when it has looked like the screen was from 1990. I have
tried to go to control panel, adjust resolution, chose screen 1, and
moved the resolution pixels to 1280 by 960. My screen still looks older,
and it is wider but, a little sharper. I have a resolution reminder that
keeps popping up that states my pc's resolution may not match this
monitors optimum 1440x900 setting. See printed or online documentation.
Press AUTO button on the side of this monitor after adjusting the screen
resolution.
I have tried that AND do not understand why in Control Panel, I CAN NOT
set my resolution/pixel to 1440x900, I tried going up to 1280x1024 and
the screen just gets wider! ---WHAT AM I MISSING? Does NVIDIA need to be
adjusted too, if so where? THANK YOU, who ever can solve this, ugh vista
problem!!!


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Sounds like you video card does not have the required capability

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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:08:09 +0530, blugrl
<blugrl.416xbb@newsgroup> wrote:
What downloads do you do on Thursdays ?

Explain to me the whole video card thing? I have a gateway Gt5628, I
have had to download update to BIOS. I don't know anything about the
video, where does it fall in at gateway.com: media reader download,
network download, or video download? Can someone tell me out of these
which download is the correct choice, each one has more than one.
Also, my pc automatically downloads for microsoft update Thursdays. It
has never caught any of these issues? I appreciate the help if someone
can answer!


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Vista does not really have much to do with your video, that is largely
handled by video drivers which would be written by NVidia if it's one of
their cards and here's the deal. The driver sits between the hardware
(The card) and the operating system (Vista) and if that driver is not
perfect chaos will result. Gateway might support you with drivers, my
preference would be to get them from NVidia's website or you might even
see them appear in Windows update.

The problem with Windows update is that it may try to install drivers
while you old ones are being used, which in itself cab cause chaos.

Here is a safe way to proceed.

Locate you driver at NVidia website, they have an "Auto" thing that
makes it easy and is usually right at picking the best driver.

Download the driver to somewhere easy to find like Desktop.

Click control panel on desktop, got to uninstall software and locate the
old driver.

Remove it, this will likely mess up your screen display.

Restart the machine, do not miss this step !!!

Now install the new driver from your desktop.

The critical thing here seems from my experience to be the "Restart the
machine" part.

Briefly the drivers talk between the hardware and the operating system
and are specific to the hardware, if they are wrong or somehow damaged
you will get kinds of strange crap and crashes and the error reports
from them don;t mean a lot because the operating system does not really
know what the heck happened. It's all easy really.



blugrl wrote:--
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