Re: Maybe OT - Settings For Widescreen LCD Monitor
- From: "Bob Huntley" <bob.huntley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 23:26:14 +0100
Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately it didn't help - I was only offered the same choice of
resolutions as before.
PS - As an experiment I tried unticking the "Hide modes this monitor cannot
support" in the Monitor tab, but after that your solution only showed higher
resolution settings that my monitor couldn't deal with.
PPS - I've just managed to find a set of drivers on the Acer FTP site -
called AL2032.ZIP. This unzipped a set of files called 07F0.INF, 07F0.CAT &
07F0.ICM. I've installed these, but apart from changing the monitor name in
Device Manager from "Plug & Play Monitor" to "ACER AL2032W" nothing else
seems to have happened. I'll try a re-boot next in case the drivers need
that to come into effect - see if that does anything.
Bob Huntley
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right-click on your desktop and select:
Properties > Settings > Advanced > Adapter > List All Modes
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"Bob Huntley" wrote:
| I've got a Radeon X1800 XL graphics card, and have just upgraded my
monitor
| for a Widescreen Acer AL2032WA.
|
| The monitor is supposed to run with a screen resolution of 1680 * 1050
| pixels - but Windows Display Manager & the ATI Catalyst control centre
only
| offers me a choice of the "standard" resolutions (e.g. 1280 * 1024,
1400 *
| 1050, 1600 * 1200 etc.). I'm running the monitor on a DVI cable, and
the
| ATI control centre correctly shows the display as an Acer one.
|
| Is there a way I can force Windows to correctly detect the monitor's
| resolution and offer a choice of widescreen modes.
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Bob Huntley
.
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