"monitor out of freq" when i play games....goes blank

Shooters

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What resolution are you running your games at? My friend's monitor used to give him that error when he would set his resolution or refresh rate higher than what his monitor could handle.
 

zzzz

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which games? civ-3 used to give me that error but they came up with a patch shortly that solved the problem. Untill then, I use powerstrip to force the refresh rate to be 85Hz at each resolution.
 

WA261

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nope....i have tried from 60 up....640x480 up.....its only some games, not all
 

cleverhandle

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I saw an LCD monitor which sometimes did similar things in games. Switching from the generic windows monitor driver to the one downloaded from Dell fixed the problem.
 

WA261

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yeah...i was thinkin powerstrip....i use to use it to force me at 100....just uninstalled it ....guess i need it :(