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Title: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: annon on April 15, 2008, 07:34:03 PM

My mom got a new monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster 932bw. Its native resolution is 1440x900. I've been looking around, but I haven't been able to get it working right. I know my video card can support 1440x900 because I got that resolution working perfectly in Ubuntu.

So, yeah. Help.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: Alice on April 15, 2008, 08:16:13 PM

If your video card has a special driver suite program or whatever, wouldn't it have something like that as a resolution option?  If not, I'd think there'd be some special drivers you can download to trix windows into displaying your resolution.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: Bobbias on April 15, 2008, 08:18:00 PM

I also run at 1440x900, but I never had to do anything to get it working.

I did a quick google and all I could come up with is trying the CD that might have come with the monitor.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: annon on April 15, 2008, 08:39:26 PM

No CD came with the monitor.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: Spectere on April 15, 2008, 09:01:30 PM

Hey, I have a SyncMaster (a 2693HM)... 8)  Those are some damn fine displays, eh?

What kind of video card do you have?  If you have an nVidia card, there's a setting in the nVidia control panel that lets you add in custom resolution settings (I had to do that to get 1280x800 and 1650x1050).  If you have an ATI card...ah, they probably have something like that but I don't know how to get to it. :x

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: annon on April 15, 2008, 09:33:26 PM

EDIT: Fuck, I was thinking of my laptop. This computer has a GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU. I can't find its panel.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: Spectere on April 15, 2008, 09:42:10 PM

That's an nVidia chip, but I don't know if its driver version is new enough...it might not have the option to do that.

There are other programs that'll do that, such as PowerStrip (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm).  I've never tried it for that task but it should do the trick.

Title: Re: How do I make 1440x900 a selectable resolution in XP?
Post by: annon on April 15, 2008, 10:37:00 PM

Six reboots later, I finally got it working properly. Score. Thanks for the link.