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Alright, i'm finaly home, lets' see into this...
First, i want you to check which monitor Win7 currently recognises.
How: Go Control Panel/Device Manager
There select "Monitor" and see if your monitor is propherly recognised.
If it says: "Generic PnP Monitor" you can be sure Win7 is forcing it's own EDID (<-- link what an EDID file is and does), over the monitors EDID file.
Next steps:
- With your current nVidia drivers, open the nVidia Control Panel. You will find that also under Control Panel/nVidia Control Panel.
- Open this and select Display on the left and there go Manage Custom Resolutions.
- On the main screen you have 2: The display has the following custom resolutions associated with it. Normally, the box under that line should be empty.
I can't include a picture but i have made a Screenshot how it should look like.
! If you can't see a create button under that main box or don't have this option at all at the left, remove your current drivers, reboot, and then load the 182.50 drivers. I have currently these drivers: 182.50_geforce_winvista_64bit_english_whql.exe
- take your monitor's manual and look up the possible refresh rates for 1920x1200.
- after installation you follow the steps above and push the "create" button.
- another screen opens where you have to enter the resolution you want (1920x1200), the refreshrate and the bits per pixel. For this last one you enter "32". The refreshrate you have to look up in the manual. It's possible that your monitor can show 1920x1200 at more then one refreshrate. You then simply create more then one 1920x1200 res. Look at my screenshot for 1152x864.
- for now, you don't need to go to the advanced tab.
- when everything is entered you can press the test button. If OK, you can save and see your newly created resolution in the box on the previous screen.
- from here you can now follow the normal steps to change a resolution, you're newly created res should be there to choose.
It might be possible that you will look at an unsharp screen at 1920x1200. If this is the case, you need to go into the advanced tab and change the refresh rate step by step up or down (by 0.1Hz) until you have a sharp picture. I can't talk you through that because i'm still using a CRT monitor but during my search i came accross a lot of posts from people who had that problem (happened only on LCD's).
Also: If you install 182.50 drivers, Win7 will ask to update them through Windows update. Always say no or you are back at square 1!!
@ Venths: That exists in nVidia too (and also for ATI) but he won't find his old resolutions there either because Win7 uses his own EDID file over the one from his monitor.
PS: no offence...LOL.
@ Jonathan_King: NP, i may have sounded a bit harsh but i have gone through the exact same problem (and a few others) and i can assure you i tried everything (you mentioned without any succes) before i digged a bit deeper into the problem. Took me about a 4 days (and lots of hours) to find a solution. So don't be offended, i only wanted to cut you short so he would focus on the real problem...
About the promised links i was going to post: i'll zip my mouth for now because i can't find them so directly (my computer is a bit of a mess after a faulty harddrive a few days ago). When i have them, i'll post them but just Google a bit and you'll have more then enough. Biggest problem will be reading and reading and reading until you stumble on the right one.
Overall: It's not a driver issue, it's a Windows 7 issue.
Google Search: 94.000.000 hits on "Windows 7 Resolutions Problems"
You will find a lot of info on your problem already on the first 2-3 pages Google comes up with.
They will deal both with the refreshrate problem on LCD's and/or resolutions that don't show anymore.
a link to start: Tom's Hardware
You can always visit the nVidia or Guru3D forums for extra info.
Honestly, when i first installed Windows 7 and encountered the problem, i almost reverted back to XP. When i started searching, i was amazed to see how many people had problem with either their resolution or refreshrate.
Last edited by Lange; 13 Jan 2010 at 19:34. Reason: corrected a typo in the res "1920x1200" instead of 1900x1200