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I was able to get one of those smaller 19" monitors at the Best Buy Black Friday sale (Samsung 931BW) and have hooked it up to my KVM switch.

The KVM switch works fine. My Linux server displays properlly at 1440x900, as does my laptops docking station. However when I switch to my media server (running Win 2K Serv which has the AIW 128) I can't get it to display any options for a wide screen resolution.

I have the last revision of the AIW drivers ATI ever released installed.
I have the monitors drivers installed.
I have tried using Power Strip to define a custom resolution.

I still can't force this thing into 1440x900. But it will do 1600x1200 just fine. Any suggestions or Reg hacks I can try?

not sure... Not messed with Windows 2000 or Windows 2000 Server since 2003... so it's been three years since I touched that OS. You might want to try a different video card in the box and see if it still does it... might be an OS thing... Wide Screen monitors aren't supported well on old OS's... 2000 Server is almost 3 generations old now, so can't complain about the support too much.

M$ server OS's haven't got full hardware acceleration enabled by default
Try r-click the desktop, goto properties, then advanced and under the Troubleshoot tab, make sure the slider is over to the right (on full)

Also try start/run and type "dxdiag" --> make sure Direct Draw and Direct3D acceleration is on full too.

After that, the only thing I can think of is using rivatuner to create a display profile.

The only complaint I have, aside from this display issue, with 2K server is it won't support the Media Center extensions. Does anyone know if that was fixed by 2K3 server? I might be worth upgrading if that's the case as I have two devices that can make use of the MC extensions.

DXDIAG passed all tests without trouble, including the DX9 support test which suprises me given the cards age. Also the GPU acceleration was already pegged out. So :shrug:

I'm likely going to have to end up getting a new GPU. The PC is a dual P3 750 machine w/o AGP slots unfortunatly.