Wide screen monitor

[Kay A. Pentecost]

Hi, Everybody,

I'm lusting after a wide screen monitor. I'm running a powerspec computer
with Win XP Pro and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 video card.

How do I find out if this supports a widescreen lcd monitor?

Thanks in advance,

Kay

 

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/Kay A. Pentecost/ said:

I'm lusting after a wide screen monitor. I'm running a powerspec computer
with Win XP Pro and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 video card.

How do I find out if this supports a widescreen lcd monitor?

What size monitor? Can you give it a test?

Yours is apparently a 64Mb card, which may not have the capacity for
highest color depth at the native resolution of larger widescreen
monitors. The adapter driver will also impact this.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

I suppose you could ask nVidia technical support...

 

[Yer Welcome]

Hi, Everybody,

I'm lusting after a wide screen monitor. I'm running a powerspec
computer with Win XP Pro and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 video card.

How do I find out if this supports a widescreen lcd monitor?

Thanks in advance,

Kay

simple answer is no

shop for a newer pci card and keep the 440 for the CRT{s}

I did this some time ago with my 8yr old AMD 1gb CPU Athlon and winfast AGP
dualhead 32mb to 2 Hitachi 802u CRTs...Newer GF PCI card DVI output to
42inch Plasma......the CRTs are set at 1280x1024 85hz refresh. The DVI I
can play with from 1080i down dependent on source files

VideoLan Player can be dragged to the Plasma and Fullscreened [pisses my
wife off to no end sometimes] heh

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

With that old a card, probably not.

Get something like one of the ATI x series or one of the newer 6xxx or 7xxx
nVidia cards.

 

[Kay A. Pentecost]

/Kay A. Pentecost/ said:

What size monitor? Can you give it a test?

Only if I buy it, bring it home, and then take it back if it doesn't work.

Yours is apparently a 64Mb card, which may not have the capacity for
highest color depth at the native resolution of larger widescreen
monitors. The adapter driver will also impact this.

Thanks!!

Kay

 

[Kay A. Pentecost]

Hi, Ted,

Thanks for responding.

Kay

I suppose you could ask nVidia technical support...

 

[Kay A. Pentecost]

Hey, Yer Welcome!!

simple answer is no

Aggggh.

I'm afraid you may be right...

shop for a newer pci card and keep the 440 for the CRT{s}

I did this some time ago with my 8yr old AMD 1gb CPU Athlon and winfast
AGP
dualhead 32mb to 2 Hitachi 802u CRTs...Newer GF PCI card DVI output to
42inch Plasma......the CRTs are set at 1280x1024 85hz refresh. The DVI I
can play with from 1080i down dependent on source files

42inch Plasma? WOW.

VideoLan Player can be dragged to the Plasma and Fullscreened [pisses my
wife off to no end sometimes] heh

Ah, where's her sense of humor? <grin>

I may start looking at video cards... the NVIDIA is onboard...

Thanks,

Kay

 

[Kay A. Pentecost]

Hi, Cari,

With that old a card, probably not.

Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. The properties box for the screen
settings go up to 1600 * 1200, and that actually works on my current
monitor...but its too small to be comfortable to work on.

Get something like one of the ATI x series or one of the newer 6xxx or
7xxx nVidia cards.

I'll look into that! Maybe it's time for a new machine, period...

Thanks!!

Kay