Problem solved. Thanks guys!

[DoobieOnline]

Surfed and surfed and couldn't find the XP driver for the P991. I'm stuck at 60Hz refresh on a new XP install and it has no higher refresh settings available. Weird because this monitor was previously on a system running 2000 and it would run 85Hz and higher. I'm hoping I'm not SOL here with this monitor and XP. If you know of a driver for XP, please let me know. Thanks!

 

[AsianriceX]

This help?

Dell

 

[DoobieOnline]

That's the one I tried last night and it wouldn't recognize the driver when trying to update in XP. Thanks, though!

 

[AsianriceX]

That's weird, I have an Ultrascan P991 sitting next to me and XP detected it fine. I'll look into that.

 

[AsianriceX]

Ok, so it was installed as a "Default Monitor" on my other workstation.

I downloaded that driverset and it installed fine and is recognized as a P991 monitor. Maybe you're not installing it properly?

Here's what I did:

Go to graphics properties.
Select the settings tab.
Select Advanced
Select Monitor in the new window that pops up.
Select Properties.
Select Driver
Select Update Driver
Don't let Windows contact Windows Update
Select "Install from a list or specific location"
Select "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install."
Hit the "Have Disk" button.
Point it to the folder where the file extracted the driverset, it should pickup that dellmon0.inf
P991 should be listed, select that.

And you should be done! Try that out.

You might also want to make sure your video card is installed properly too.

 

[DoobieOnline]

Thanks ArX. I'll follow those instructions to the letter when I get home tonight and see if it works for me. Appreciate the follow-up!

 

[Lonyo]

Tell Windows to show all refresh rates, not just ones it thinks the monitor can support.(Hide modes this monitor does not support)
My P991 has a driver and it detected and all that, but Windows reports incorrect resolution/refresh rate support. so I ignore it and just use what I know works.

 

[DoobieOnline]

Thanks Lonyo. I unchecked the box last night and it displayed higher resolutions. The problem is that I was unable to get higher refresh rates to stick after hitting apply and ok. It went back to 60Hz every single time. In ATi CP, there are only two resolutions listed 60Hz and something even lower. I think ATi CP is overriding Windows settings because I don't have the driver installed, at least I'm hoping that's all it is. "Use DDC" is greyed out so I can't uncheck that in CP. Hopefully I'll get the driver intalled tonight and it will solve these problems.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: DoobieOnline
Thanks Lonyo. I unchecked the box last night and it displayed higher resolutions. The problem is that I was unable to get higher refresh rates to stick after hitting apply and ok. It went back to 60Hz every single time. In ATi CP, there are only two resolutions listed 60Hz and something even lower. I think ATi CP is overriding Windows settings because I don't have the driver installed, at least I'm hoping that's all it is. "Use DDC" is greyed out so I can't uncheck that in CP. Hopefully I'll get the driver intalled tonight and it will solve these problems.

Very odd.
I have an ATi card and even when I didn't install the driver I didn't have an issue.
I also use MultiRes to force the refresh rate (85Hz for me) in games, where the ATi refresh rate override for OpenGL and D3D doesn't seem to work (neither does Reforce or anything else ) so you could try that if the driver doesn't work.

 

[DoobieOnline]

Hey AsianriceX, that did the trick. Thanks again to you and Lonyo for your suggestions!