Video Card Resolution Jargon

[shortylickens]

Well, I cant contribute anything useful and I hear Video is full of angry people, so I'll make another post.

My HP 2335 runs just super at 1920x1200 and its only using a single connector.

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: mjs90201
I purchased a similar nVidia graphics card from a local store (with a return policy) to make sure I did not have a defective card. This new card showed the same resolution limitation. I just got off the phone with tech support for this card. He said that the nVidia driver WILL display available resolutions that exceed the capability of the attached monitor, but not resolutions that exceed the capability of the motherboard. He suggested that my motherboard (Dell Dimension 8100 Pentium 4 desktop) is at fault. If this is true, then upgrading my OS and purchasing the most expensive available AGP card would make no difference.

I've never heard of a motherboard intervening in the operation of an addon video card at such a high level as displayable resolutions. That's usually driver level, and way out of the motherboard's ballpark. But then again, I haven't dealt with many Dells and their proprietary shennanigans.

*scratches head*

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: mjs90201
I purchased a similar nVidia graphics card from a local store (with a return policy) to make sure I did not have a defective card. This new card showed the same resolution limitation. I just got off the phone with tech support for this card. He said that the nVidia driver WILL display available resolutions that exceed the capability of the attached monitor, but not resolutions that exceed the capability of the motherboard. He suggested that my motherboard (Dell Dimension 8100 Pentium 4 desktop) is at fault. If this is true, then upgrading my OS and purchasing the most expensive available AGP card would make no difference.

dude, you have Windows 98 or ME... get XP already.

 

[BassBomb]

My 6600GT runs 1680x1050 through SINGLE LINK DVI fine.

 

[mjs90201]

Thanks for all the replies. I do plan to upgrade my OS AFTER I manage to transfer my important files to my new computer.

I may also try a more advanced AGP video card on my Dell to see if I can get higher resolutions. I am not optimistic for two reasons: 1) nVidia says my current card is capable of 1600x1200 through the DVI port but it apparently is not on my system, and 2) my current card is purportedly capable of generating display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 through the VGA port, but on my system the maximum available VGA resolution is 1600x1024 (same as through the DVI port).

If my system does not support the maximum resolutions of a G-Force FX series card, I would be surprised if the higher resolutions of more advanced cards would function on my system.