Refresh rate is 60hz at reboot, says 100

[Cabana]

Whenever I reboot my screen is at 60hz. I can tell just by looking at it. However, if I go into the display control panel it still says I'm at 100, or whatever I was last at. I have to then change it to 90 to get it back to a normal refresh rate. I have an MSI 9800 Pro and an Iiyama Vision Master Pro. I think part of the problem is I can't find native XP drivers for my monitor. When I first built this computer, XP detected the monitor by name and it worked fine. After a while it turned into "default monitor" so I installed some 2000 drivers off the web and I think that is when this problem started.

 

[Cabana]

Anyone have an idea?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

dunno but mine does this too......it says im in 75Hz when quite clearly in in 60Hz

 

[KenSimone]

I have this problem if my monitor is off when windows boots, or if my KVM switch has the monitor switched to another machine when windows boots.

 

[BenSkywalker]

Go in to your CP- Settings-Advanced-Displays and click on your monitor on that screen(should be top left). Set your max resolution and refresh rate there and then change it again normally(should work after this).

 

[Cabana]

Cool, thanks. It was set at 1280 @ 75hz. I bumped it up to 100 so I assume that will fix it when I reboot.

 

[PING]

ATI refresh rate control is broken. To fix this, bring up Display Properties, Settings tab->Advance, then Dispaly tab. Click on the Monitor, disable DCC auto detection. Set your monitor highest refresh rate. Apply. Then go back to the Monitor tab. Set your desired refresh rate and apply.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've seen this happen too, when the monitor goes into sleep mode and shuts off and then comes back up. ATI drivers claim it's at 75Hz, monitor itself is at 60Hz (default, I guess).

As much as I still like ATI's hardware, it seems decent - but they seem to have these wierd terminal issues with their drivers. How can supposedly "mature" drivers, continually have these issues with refresh-rates and gamma-ramps, that NV's drivers don't usually seem to have.