Monitor Blues

Romad · Post by **Romad** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:22 pm

I am trying to get my new nVidia 7600 GT card to display 1680 x 105 (WUXGA+) to a wide screen HP monitor...this is not a native resolution for this card..

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. So far, I have not heard from nVidia...of course the email just went out tonight! My fault for not checking the vitals of the card before purchase, but even now I cannot find any listings for resolutions for ANY card.

New to this forum...hello, everyone.

InspectahACE · Post by **InspectahACE** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:26 pm

ur card will do that..i had an nvidia geforce 6200 do that resolution with no fuss at all..i would assume u installed the drivers for the card so with that it should work

Romad · Post by **Romad** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:33 pm

Thanks, InspectahAce

I have the latest and (hopefully) greatest deivers from nVisia...and a huge list of resolutions to choose from, but none in that aspect ratio. They seem to be focused on the 4:3 ratio....perhaps its the XFX card, but I doubt it. I think its a driver issue.

InspectahACE · Post by **InspectahACE** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:43 pm

not sure dude...i have a monitor with 1680x1050...works beautifully with the drivers..now if u just installed it...go into the nvidia control panel..and look into the flat panel scaling..and change that to nvidia scaling..that will do it..but the resolution should do it alone

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:06 pm

Indeed, I too have a 1680x1050 monitor, mine running on an FX5500 (

) and with the 93.71 drivers from nvidia, it works fine.

Maybe try reinstalling the drivers?

Romad · Post by **Romad** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:07 am

Thanks to everyone, I will NOT return the monitor...turns out to be a bad video card. javascript:emoticon(':oops:')
Embarassed I will RMA it and get a new card. Sure the new card will work just fine, I now have confidence.

This is a great forum...appreciate all the interest and help, suggestions.

Romad · Post by **Romad** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:17 pm

It turns out that my old ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo has a 1.5 v AGP 4x 8x video slot. The nVidia 7600 GT card I bought is .8 v (consistant with AGP 3.0), so I bought a BFG 7800 GTX card that is 1.5 v (actually AGP 2.0 compliant). Now everything loads up fine...except the nVidia control panel will not load. I do have the latest drivers and the Win XP display setting properties allows for my proper screen settings. Oh well. I will probably have to reload Windows at some point. Maybe I will wait until Vista has been out a while then see what happens.

Asus A8V Deluxe, AMD 64 4000+, BFG 7800 GTX 256 DDR3, HP W22 monitor, 200 x 1 Sata. 2 x 512 dual channel no name memory. Standard HSFan (never gets to 40 deg C), no extra cooling on the video card. A little boring but it gets me there.

Thanks again for all the helpful comments...you got me on the right track.