Re: Plug and Play detection of Monitor

On May 4, 1:23 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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news:0749796f-d04b-43b2-bcfd-1c171be2c367@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On May 4, 10:25 am, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On May 4, 9:01 am, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Nvidia and ATI have the capability to set a custom
resolution. Powerstrip from Entechtaiwan ($) can do
that. Nvidia, in the classic control panel, has a
custom resolution dialog. With ATI, there can be a
list of resolutions you can get to show up in a
menu. So there are ways to try to deal with it.

Powerstrip is for cases where all else fails.

So try the monitor driver first, and select "install"
when right-clicked on the INF on the driver CD.

Paul

The monitor is a G900W with 1440 x 900 resolution. The BENQ site
has
drivers which seem to be the same as those on the CD that came
with
the monitor.
Right clicking the .inf file that is included with the driver and
selecting install does nothing apparent - perhaps it is installing
the
driver but because plug and play is not detecting the monitor I
cannot
see the driver.
I have downloaded the Monitor Asset Manager and will see what it
shows.

But the installation of your video card or display adaptor is
essential
if you want to get it working. I'd really concentrate on that first.
If your video card cannot be set to 1440 x 900
there is nothing monitor related you can do to make it so

All I know is that the motherboard has a built in adapter using the
UniChrome graphics engine according to the Gigabyte website. There is
no adapter showing up in the hardware list.

If you know the exact model of your motherboard
you should ber able to go to the website and download the correct driver
for your on-board graphics...
once that;s installed, hopefully things will get better.

Just out of curiosity.
what does it show if you right click on the desktop
and look at properties ===> settings ?

Settings shows the display as Default Monitor and if I click on
Advanced then there is no Adapter tab and the Monitor tab gives a
Monitor type of Default Monitor and the Properties button is shown as
disabled (grayed out)

Then you will definately need to get the drivers for your video card and
install them...
that should sort things out

Installed the Viaarena driver that Paul suggested and lo and behold, I
now have Adapter and Monitor tabs in Settings/Advanced. Furthermore,
plug n play now detects the Benq monitor.

I then installed the Q900W driver for the monitor but I still cannot
get 1440x900 resolution. The resolution options are the same as
before.

Any ideas as to what to try next?
.