Hanns.G monitor problem

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi Ken

It's a 2004 HP Pavilion a708.uk desktop, so I guess that the age is the
problem.
:-(

Very likely.

Looks like I'll need to buy a new video card, yes?

Look in Device Manager to see what video card you have, then check the
video card's specs on its manufacturer's web site.

If it doesn't support wide-screen monitors (and it probably doesn't),
and you want to use a wide-screen monitor, yes you need a new one.
Otherwise you will be running at the wrong resolution for the monitor,
so the image will be poor and graphics shapes will be distorted.

 

[Paul]

Hi Ken

It's a 2004 HP Pavilion a708.uk desktop, so I guess that the age is the
problem.
:-(

Looks like I'll need to buy a new video card, yes?

MT

The problem isn't always the driver.

http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/topic10059.html

In terms of "pulling out all your hair", a new video card
added to the computer is certainly one way to fix it.

There is room on the motherboard shown in the picture here,
for either an AGP or a PCI video card (*not* PCI Express ones).
AGP would be the best choice, from a performance perspective.
AGP has more slot bandwidth to offer. The chipset used on the
board is SiS661fx, so it is more modern than I would have guessed.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00211786&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=436507

For some info on video card compatibility for AGP, try this site.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html

Trying the driver from SIS is also worth a shot. You can
use the "driver rollback" button in Device Manager, if you
don't like the results. The current version for the
661FX is uvga3_390.zip from http://www.sis.com/download .

The info here mentions 1600x1200 for the chipset, so I think
it is still worth spending some time on drivers - or
evaluating Powerstrip from entechtaiwan.com as a means to
set the resolution.

http://www.sis.com/products/sis661fx.htm

Paul