widescreen monitor ?

[slick8]

i picked up a samsung 206bw monitor, when i go to nvidia control panel it doesnt allow me to set 1280x720 or any other widescreen resolutions, before i set the monitor up i was using a viewsonic 19 crt, when i went to nvidia control panel with that monitor it gave me the full selection of resolutions to chose from, im using the lates nvidia driver and a 7900 gtx video card with xp pro

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Installed the driver for the monitor?

http://www.samsung.com/au/supp...ght/rmenu_monitors.sec

 

[slick8]

I did that, thx

 

[jonks]

I got the 226bw and the only ws rez available was the native 1680x1050. To set 1440x900 and 1280x800 I had to manually add them in the nvid control panel.

 

[slick8]

i tried and it would not take them,testing failed

 

[jonks]

Try this from the Nvid forums...worked for me:

Their native resolution is 1440x900. my graphics card kept displaying them at 1280x1024. I send nvidia's tech support and email they (quickly) responded and told me to do a custom timing. It DID NOT WORK. I would create the custom timing and then test it. the test would fail. bummer. so i was waiting for them to answer me back and i decided to do some more research.
It now works.
Here is what i did to get it to work...

1. NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > Manage custom timings.
2. Click both "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display"
3. Click [Create...]
4. Under Custom display mode values:
Horizontal desktop pixels: 1440
Vertical desktop lines: 900
GDI Refresh rate: 60
Bits per pixel: 32
(don't have "Interlaced" checked)
5. Click [Advanced >>] (by the way this is where I didn't go when NVIDIA emailed me)
6. Under "Back-end parameters":
Timing standard: DMT
Desired refresh rate: 60
(the rest of the fields are grayed out)
7. Under "Front-end paramers"
Scaling type: Display (none)
8. Click [Test]
9. Click [OK]