Unable to reset refresh rate above 60hz

[Guest]

Hi

I recently updated my VGA drivers from the nvidea website from version 52.16 to 53.03 for my Geforce 2 Ti card

I am running XP Home and have had no problems running my Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 740SB at 1024 X 768 32bit at a refresh rate of 85hz....until now

Every time I boot up my PC it now defaults to 60hz. Although I can change it once statred to 85hz it is becoming a bit of a pain doing this every time I start my PC. I have tried reverting to the previous drivers but this does not solve the problem even though this did not happen when I originally used the 62.16 version

I have not tried the default drivers yet as I was hoping someone may know a solution before I resort to doing this

I uninstalled the previous drivers and installed the updated versions disabling Norton AV and firewall beforehand

Other hardware if it relevent

Asus 266E motherboard
Ali chipse
AMD Athlon XP 1700 processo
512 Samsung DDR memor
2 X Maxtor harddrives (totalling 100GB
Soundblaster 5.1 sound car
Winfast Titanuim Geforce 2 graphics card (64mb

Many thanks

Robert

 

[Jim Macklin]

Your monitor is not properly identified, so the video is
defaulting to a "safe" refresh rate.


"Robert Woodhead" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
| Hi,
|
| I recently updated my VGA drivers from the nvidea website
from version 52.16 to 53.03 for my Geforce 2 Ti card.
|
| I am running XP Home and have had no problems running my
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 740SB at 1024 X 768 32bit at a
refresh rate of 85hz....until now.
|
| Every time I boot up my PC it now defaults to 60hz.
Although I can change it once statred to 85hz it is becoming
a bit of a pain doing this every time I start my PC. I have
tried reverting to the previous drivers but this does not
solve the problem even though this did not happen when I
originally used the 62.16 version.
|
| I have not tried the default drivers yet as I was hoping
someone may know a solution before I resort to doing this.
|
| I uninstalled the previous drivers and installed the
updated versions disabling Norton AV and firewall
beforehand.
|
| Other hardware if it relevent:
|
| Asus 266E motherboard,
| Ali chipset
| AMD Athlon XP 1700 processor
| 512 Samsung DDR memory
| 2 X Maxtor harddrives (totalling 100GB)
| Soundblaster 5.1 sound card
| Winfast Titanuim Geforce 2 graphics card (64mb)
|
| Many thanks,
|
| Robert

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jim for the quick response

After two years of no problems with the PC do you why I should be having problems now? Do I simply need to uninstall the monitor driver, re boot and let Windows reinstall to recitfy things

Thank again

Robert

 

[Guest]

After two years of no problems with the PC do you why I

should be having problems now?
Well...

I recently updated my VGA drivers...

You didn't think you'd have to pay for that ;-)

Older drivers tended to trust you to know what you were
doing if they couldn't detect the monitor type. Many
newer drivers like to play it safe and assume that any
undetected monitor must be 60Hz only. It's a real pain
if you have an older monitor but if you search around
people have found various ways to override various
drivers. (Usually a registry hack or a utility that
edits the registry.)

Sometimes you can get a new .inf file from your monitor
company that will fix the problem too.

 

[Steve N.]

Yes, that should do it but you really don't need to reboot after
removing the monitor driver, just scan for hardware changes in device
manager, it should detect the monitor and find the correct driver.

Steve

 

[Robert]

Many thanks,

It worked eventually after downloading the monitor
drivers from Mitsubishi/NEC. It didn't work at first so I
went back to the default VGA drivers on XP. Then
installed the latest nvidea 53.03 drivers.

Everything is fine now.

Thanks again,

Robert

-----Original Message-----
Yes, that should do it but you really don't need to reboot after
removing the monitor driver, just scan for hardware changes in device
manager, it should detect the monitor and find the correct driver.

Steve

I should be having problems now? Do I simply need to
uninstall the monitor driver, re boot and let Windows
reinstall to recitfy things?