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Video stuck at 640 x 480! Help, please.

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amheck

Golden Member
Hi everyone,

I had an older computer here that my wife is now using for the book-keeping computer in her office. I installed my old voodoo3-2000 video card. When she has it hooked up at the office, it seems to be stuck in 640x480 and won't let you change the setting with the slider in the display properties. There are certain functions in her programs that she can't seem to access since she can't see the whole screen.

I had her bring home the computer last nite. I installed the drivers again from voodoofiles and hooked up my 21" IBM P202 monitor. I was able to up the settings all the way to past 1600x1200.

Then she took it back today and its stuck at 640x480 again. I also suggested she try another monitor. Someone helped her hook up a IBM 17" monitor they had there and its the same thing.

Any ideas?

Aaron
 
It's quite possible that both of these "work" monitors are crappy/generic monitors and windows does not know the specs. Ask your wife to have a look at the display properties and see if windows has the monitor listed by name or as a "plug and play" monitor. If it's listed as a "plug and play" that could be the problem.
 
Thanks. I'll have her check that. If it's not listed as the monitor (I think it's a IBM G70) is there a driver or something I need to install? Or just select it from a list? I have really never had to install a monitor driver before, or even heard of such a thing.

Aaron
 
Go to control panel , system, device manager and right click on display. Click update driver and choose other, a list will come up and scroll down to IBM and select the G70 from there.
If theyre not in there you'll have to do a search for them or get them from Here
You'll have to register first, it's a great sight to find older drivers.
They do have it there, I checked
 
You're not running pcAnywhere on that machine are you?

Get the machine hooked up to a monitor that you get a decent desktop size on, say the one you have at home. Then, manually set the desktop to 800x600x60Hz or 1024x768x60Hz.

THEN take the machine to work and plug it into the monitor there and up the refresh rate and resolution there in increments.

I think Windows is crapping out because it cannot drive the monitor at work with the requested refresh rate/resolution.
 
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