ATI X300 $%^^&# Panning at 1280X768 Native Res

[martinmsj]

Oddly enough I favored ATI but ever since I switched back to them for a temp card I had some issues that have me pulling my hair out. This was never a problem with my 6800 GT AGP. I have a Westinghouse 30" with a native res of 1280X768. At first I thought this was a defect until I replaced the card with another brand.

The card in question is the X300 256 HM card that was a temp stop before next springs video card refreshes. The card ****** goes into panning mode at any resolution I throw at it. Piece of ****** Catalyst tells me that it does panning for high resolutions not supported. This piece of ****** does it for all of them. I had nothing of this with my GT and the search on google shows panning problems all the way back to catalyst 3.1.

What the ******. Someone, anyone, know a way around this? I got this card for 50 bux and the 6200 with TC is 79.99.

 

[jasonja]

It's probably the LCD not reporting it's EDID properly, therefore the card doesn't know what the LCD's native resolution is. Considering this is a TV and not a monitor this is probably the case.

If you set it to 800x600 or 1024x768 or other standard resolutions does it pan? What about replacing with a monitor?

 

[Cheesetogo]

Why did you replace your 6800gt with an x300?

 

[martinmsj]

Switching to PCIE and had no money for a better card.

How do I fix this issue? This wasn't a problem with the 6800 card which deteched my monitor just fine.

 

[Cooler]

that is huge down grade. sell the 6800 agp and get x800 gto and unlock and overclock.

 

[Auric]

Are other displays attached and which connection(s) are utilized? The DVI should certainly output a matching 1280x768 (X800 and 9700 do).

If using a standard definition connection (such as S-Video) then it is normal for 1024x768 to be the maximum sans panning when cloned -which is actually generous since 480i would otherwise be expected (extended mode remains an option for totally independent resolutions). 'twould seem unlikely that anyone would try to use a TV like that when better options are available though so I dunno either you are doing something wrong or mayhaps those uber budget cards have some queer limitation.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: jasonja
It's probably the LCD not reporting it's EDID properly, therefore the card doesn't know what the LCD's native resolution is. Considering this is a TV and not a monitor this is probably the case.

Indeed, does it seem installed correctly? What aboot searching avsforum or contacting the company?

 

[martinmsj]

The set is connected via DVI. I tried an X700 and an X300, both do the same thing. This just happens with the ATI cards. I've pretty much had it at this point.