LCD Monitor Refresh Rates

[Zak Humphries]

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

 

[hb]

/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.

 

[Zak Humphries]

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

 

[**__Mike__**]

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