Refresh rate stucks at 60Hertz

Mmm, the dreaded Generic PNP monitor "bug" roars it's ugly head again.
(Do people actualy search this forum before posting...? When posting this i got a few "similar threaths" on the bottom of the screen).

If WhichmMaster's tip doesn't bring anything...

...take a look here first:
Resolution and refreshrate problems in Windows 7
for general info on what it's all about...

Then go here:
Tom's Hardware
Read through this topic from top to bottom. You either need to create your own resolutions with their refreshrates, go through Powerstrip to make your own custom driver, make your own EDID file or edit the monitor's .INF file.

For more info just Google on Windows 7 resolution problems or Windows 7 refreshrate or something like that. You then have all the info you need to solve your problem.


PS: both links handle about the inability to choose a certain resolution but not having the option to choose various refreshrates is directly related to the same problem.
PPS: tweaking your refreshrate from the 60Hz to something in between 59 and 60 can solve your problem too.

RougeCrown said:

... the problem, my computer is a HP Pavilion Dv5t-1000 (GPU nVIDIA 9200M) with windows 7 installed anew... I really need help desperately because 60hzt is killing my eyes Please help me guys!

I'm afraid I don't understand? Are you hooking up a CRT monitor to this notebook? If you're not, then I can't see how the refresh rate is, or can be, hurting your eyes? LCD's don't work the same way CRT's do, so 60hz is more than sufficient as far as refresh rates go.

Is your screen actually flickering?

60Hz should be enough for an LCD (higher is better if you can set it higher, i just love the view of those 120Hz LCD monitors which are still way to expensive).

If his screen is not flickering but he gets a fuzzy screen, adjusting to refreshrate anywhere between 59Hz or 60Hz should do the trick. Which exact frequency he should use is a bit of trial and error.

@RougeCrown: As far as i know, drivers above 182.50 have problems with the creation of custom res/freq's.
If succesfull, the custom res/freq's you created should be possible to select.
If your LCD returns to 60Hz then it's possible that it does not allow a higher frequency. If your screen looks fuzzy you need to adjust the freq between 59 and 60Hz with tiny steps (i did read that some people have to go a little above 60Hz to get it right eventualy).

Questions:
- Is your screen flickering (already asked)?
- Is your screen fuzzy?
- What was the refreshrate under beta and RC2?
- Did you try through PowerStrip? If yes, did you performed the step "have disk" when creating a custom driver? You find a step by step guide in the Tom's Harwardware link above

Higher isn't better if the screen does not support it... and there's no distinction between 59 or 60hz, visual or otherwise, as far as the OS and drivers are concerned.

Besides, with an LCD monitor, a "refresh rate" really doesn't exist, per se, because that's just not how LCD's work: LCD's don't draw the screen 60 times a second like a CRT.

The wife is now enjoying an old BenQ of mine, and as I recall its rate was 75hz, but honestly, until this thread popped up I had forgotten all about it being the odd man out at 75hz... maybe I'll walk over there and set it to that one of these days... :) ... maybe not, because I can't say I've noticed there's anything at all wrong... it's perfect at 60.

I would say that maybe the problem was the OP didn't install the monitor's drivers... but it's a notebook... I'm assuming complete with HP cd with all his drivers, so he has everything he needs, right?

Fumz said:

Higher isn't better if the screen does not support it... and there's no distinction between 59 or 60hz, visual or otherwise, as far as the OS and drivers are concerned.

I don't agree there Fumz. Not with Windows 7. A lot of people suffer (you don't as far as i can see) from either:
- a resolution problem, where they are unable to select the resolution (and it's accompanied refreshrate on CRT's) they used to use under Vista or XP. This can be solved in various ways as decribed above.
- they suffer from the problem that at the native resolution and refreshrate of the LCD, their view just looks really bad and fuzzy. This is mostly solved (on LCD's at least) by setting the refreshrate to anything in between 59Hz and 60Hz (like 59,17Hz or so... when all of a sudden your picture becomes razor sharp again). It may see and sound unlogical but it is what it is.
Just Google a bit about this problem, sit back, relax and enjoy a "long" evening of reading about both problems under Windows 7 and it's propher solutions.

Fumz said:

I would say that maybe the problem was the OP didn't install the monitor's drivers... but it's a notebook... I'm assuming complete with HP cd with all his drivers, so he has everything he needs, right?

Right but then Windows 7 (can) work(s) a bit odd when it comes down to displays. If your monitor is recognised as a Generic PNP monitor (or another non-PNP monitor) and Windows forces a native resolution at which it thinks the hooked-up monitor should work at and that res/freq is not the real native res/freq of your monitor, you have a big problem in Windows 7.
If it happens to be equal to the one you already used on a previous OS, you see no problems at all and everything works fine. I believe you fall into that last category...