refresh rate

[iamtrout]

Is it safe to run your monitor at a refresh rate higher than what windows xp says is the max for your hardware?
For example, at 1600X1200 XP thinks that my max supported refresh rate is 72 Hz.
I disabled that "hide modes that monitor cannot display" feature and put it on 75 Hz.
So far, nothing bad seems to be happening, but is this bad for the monitor?
Thanks.

 

[Nefrodite]

did you even install the inf for your monitor? windows probably guessin if you don't see anything or it fritzes out, then your too high otherwise it doesn't matter

 

[iamtrout]

I guess I didn't install the inf. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[saltedeggman]

Windows XP has a bug that would not allow you to go over 60hertz for refresh rate...
no matter what the setting tells you, you are only running @ 60hertz refresh rate...

WHEN are they going to come up with a solution?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Ummm.... I'm running my Dell P992 on WinXP Pro @ 1600 x 1200 @ 85Hz... Flicker-free

-Ice

 

[iamtrout]

Uhhh, I installed the inf and it still said the max refresh was 72. I put it on 75 anyway and after a few minutes a thin black line
popped up on my screen, running horizontally about 2/3 up on the screen. I DO NOT HAVE AN APERTURE GRILLE.
I changed the refresh rate back to 72 and the line disappeared.
What did I just do to me monitor?
Is there any way to customize your resolution to something nonstandard, like 1400X1050?

 

[saltedeggman]

<< Ummm.... I'm running my Dell P992 on WinXP Pro @ 1600 x 1200 @ 85Hz... Flicker-free

-Ice >>



I understand, but the refresh is 60hertz MAX...

someone back me up on this

 

[Nefrodite]

Windows XP has a bug that would not allow you to go over 60hertz for refresh rate...
no matter what the setting tells you, you are only running @ 60hertz refresh rate...


so not true, my eyes, and my monitors ability to tell me current refresh rate disagree

 

[saltedeggman]

there

found an article
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,73843,00.asp

 

[r0tt3n1]

AFAIK, the refresh rate problem is done during install, it defaults to 60Hz. It can be changed afterward, but a lot of people leave it that way just because they are not sure how to change it or even that they can........ OpenGL games will run at 60Hz default, nVidia has a patch to get around that.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

<< there

found an article
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,73843,00.asp >>





<< What's most depressing about XP is how much hasn't changed. Even though it recognized my monitor, it didn't bother improving the display's refresh rate from an eyeball-busting 60 Hz. You might blame that on a video-driver bug, but the solution is tough to find, because it hides behind a daunting "Advanced" button. >>



It took me all of thirty seconds after installing XP to find "the solution" to this bug. It's not as much a bug as it is an inconvenience.

-Ice

 

[Nefrodite]

hm well i know 2k has refresh pains in games.. i don't run games on my xp machine so i dunno about that. either way i'm sure you can fix xp too using powerstrip works for forcing custom refreshrates in games.

 

[iamtrout]

um, can someone get back to my problem? Please? Pretty please?

 

[Nefrodite]

Uhhh, I installed the inf and it still said the max refresh was 72. I put it on 75 anyway and after a few minutes a thin black line
popped up on my screen, running horizontally about 2/3 up on the screen. I DO NOT HAVE AN APERTURE GRILLE.
I changed the refresh rate back to 72 and the line disappeared.
What did I just do to me monitor?

nothing at all maybe your videocard just really sucks that could be a limit too..monitor infs are sometimes a tad conservative.

 

[iamtrout]

I don't know about that one. I've got a PNY geforce3 ti200.

 

[Nefrodite]

oh oops missed thta you run at 1600x1200 thats where you start finding out the difference between a cheap monitor and a better one your monitor is probably maxed at at 72hz at that res sadly.

 

[iamtrout]

thanks for the reply.