In the IEEE lab at my school, the chair bought a new HP w1907 LCD. It is 1440x900 native resolution.
The slider for screen resolutions only goes as high as 1280x768. So it doesn't look very good. Unchecking "hide modes this monitor cannot support" shows up to 1600x1200, but none of them are 16:10 widescreen, much less the native 1440x900. I tried:
* Updated the videocard drivers. It was hard to find the right one that was newer. Finally I did except they were Unichrome Pro instead of Unichrome II. But XP let me install them and said the previous version UnichromeII were not a better fit. So I guess it's just the name, seems like Unichrome Pro (x.x.x.0333) or Unichrome II (x.x.x.0103) are the same driver for same hardware. Regardless, the newer Unichrome Pro didn't allow WS resolutions either.
* Downloaded newest HP w1907 profile/drivers, but those drivers were already present.
* Tried Powerstrip, but the ability to manually add a custom resolution (or pretty much any setting) was grayed out.
* Checked the Gigabyte site and it said in the FAQ for the mobo that it supports 1400x1050 (and a number of other ones). So it's possible that a newer BIOS is required to support those resolutions listed, but even then, 1440x900 wasn't listed. So I didn't try updating the BIOS.
Is it just possible that this videocard can in no way support such resolutions?? That's ridiculous! Any ATI/Nvidia card I've had in the past few years could support pretty much every resolution up to 2048x1536 and higher. I tried Googling the problem, and it seems other people have the same issue with WS LCDs they just bought. Out of all the posts, I couldn't find a working solution.
They said they will just buy a new videocard since I couldn't figure it out. But if I'm missing something obvious, it'd be worth it since they're likely gonna spend $100 on a 7300GS or something totally overkill for 2D desktop work.
The slider for screen resolutions only goes as high as 1280x768. So it doesn't look very good. Unchecking "hide modes this monitor cannot support" shows up to 1600x1200, but none of them are 16:10 widescreen, much less the native 1440x900. I tried:
* Updated the videocard drivers. It was hard to find the right one that was newer. Finally I did except they were Unichrome Pro instead of Unichrome II. But XP let me install them and said the previous version UnichromeII were not a better fit. So I guess it's just the name, seems like Unichrome Pro (x.x.x.0333) or Unichrome II (x.x.x.0103) are the same driver for same hardware. Regardless, the newer Unichrome Pro didn't allow WS resolutions either.
* Downloaded newest HP w1907 profile/drivers, but those drivers were already present.
* Tried Powerstrip, but the ability to manually add a custom resolution (or pretty much any setting) was grayed out.
* Checked the Gigabyte site and it said in the FAQ for the mobo that it supports 1400x1050 (and a number of other ones). So it's possible that a newer BIOS is required to support those resolutions listed, but even then, 1440x900 wasn't listed. So I didn't try updating the BIOS.
Is it just possible that this videocard can in no way support such resolutions?? That's ridiculous! Any ATI/Nvidia card I've had in the past few years could support pretty much every resolution up to 2048x1536 and higher. I tried Googling the problem, and it seems other people have the same issue with WS LCDs they just bought. Out of all the posts, I couldn't find a working solution.
They said they will just buy a new videocard since I couldn't figure it out. But if I'm missing something obvious, it'd be worth it since they're likely gonna spend $100 on a 7300GS or something totally overkill for 2D desktop work.
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