Screen resolution

[T5]

I am using a 19" Flat screen monitor and I usually run the resolution at
1024 x 768, whenever I wish to change the resolution the onscreen picture
does not fit my screen, it is either too small or it overlaps my screen.

I can get round this by pressing the auto adjust button on my monitor, but
when I reboot my pc the screen defaults to the smaller/larger resolution.
How do I stop this from happening?

 

[BigJim]

try a different refresh rate

 

[T5]

Thx Jim sorted

Changed refresh from 75mhz to 60mhz and it stays put

T5

 

[BSchnur]

Changed refresh from 75mhz to 60mhz and it stays putThat would be Hz not MHz.

With decent flat panels you shouldn't need to drop down to 60 Hz --
perhaps to 70 or 72. The thing with 60 Hz is that you may get to deal
with interaction with lights in the room (as the AC current is also at
60 Hz) which can cause fatigue and headaches over time.

 

[Dave R.]

That would be Hz not MHz.

With decent flat panels you shouldn't need to drop down to 60 Hz --
perhaps to 70 or 72. The thing with 60 Hz is that you may get to deal
with interaction with lights in the room (as the AC current is also at
60 Hz) which can cause fatigue and headaches over time.

I thought that was only an issue CRTs not with LCD panels, since the
screen doesn't really "refresh" the same. The pixels on an LCD stay on
continuously, they only change state / color during the next refresh
cycle. The only real issue with this is that you get streaking /
ghosting of moving images because of the latency.

Regards,

Dave

 

[BSchnur]

Yes it is much more of a problem with CRT's -- I believe it is still an
issue (perhaps minor) with LCD's. The thing is, I run my panels at
70Hz or 75Hz uniformly. With LCD's the display is configured to be
optimized at maximum resolution and matching refresh. A max refresh
rate of 60Hz to me suggests there is a mismatch of the card or display.

 

[Dave R.]

Yes it is much more of a problem with CRT's -- I believe it is still
an
issue (perhaps minor) with LCD's. The thing is, I run my panels at
70Hz or 75Hz uniformly. With LCD's the display is configured to be
optimized at maximum resolution and matching refresh. A max refresh
rate of 60Hz to me suggests there is a mismatch of the card or
display.

Not necessarily. Many older LCDs had response times around 25ms - slow
enough that 60hz was plenty and using a faster refresh rate didn't give
any benefit. 60hz translates to about 17ms response time, 70hz is about
14ms, and 75 is about 13ms. The fastest LCDs today are around 8ms which
would be around 120hz, but there are other limitations that affect it.

Check out http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_8.html for a nice
discussion on this topic.

Regards,

Dave

 

[BSchnur]

Fair enough -- on the relatively old (but very nice) Samsung 171T I'm
using at the moment, at 1280x1024 the max refresh rate for me is 70Hz.
On a number of the 15 inch LCD's where the max resolution is 1024x768,
I'm running at 75Hz, but I have one where the top refresh is 70Hz.
I've not encountered a top rate of 60Hz on any of the LCD's I've used
and deployed over the past two or three years though.