Help ! W7 won't allow monitors resolution

[Phil K]

It SHOULD be 1680x1050 and if I use NVidea's control, W7 just refuses with a white box on a black background saying what I'd just bloody put in is the "optimum setting" at 60hz, every setting should work and doesn't.
Could anyone help ?

 

[win7]

Right this is slightly off-topic but i had some similar issues in xp when making a dual boot machine for 7... try making the refresh rate 75, that was my problem.....

 

[skunksmash]

It SHOULD be 1680x1050 and if I use NVidea's control, W7 just refuses with a white box on a black background saying what I'd just bloody put in is the "optimum setting" at 60hz, every setting should work and doesn't.
Could anyone help ?

try uninstalling the GFX driver completely & reinstall.....

also try & change the res via the W7 control panel rather than the NV control panel

see if this helps.....




SK

 

[Phil K]

Tried all that, and the white box wandering round a black background just won't go away. Reboot, still there. Hammer away at the mouse and keyboard, still there. This is being done on Safe Mode.
If I said I am livid with this beta, it would be the understatement of a lifetime.....

 

[Chappy]

Hi

What make/model monitor is this and what is the native input type? (HDMI, DVI..VGA)

 

[Phil K]

Should have put this in yesterday - forgot.
It righted itself.
I started the comp up yesterday morning and it was 1680x1050 from the off
Weird.

 

[Chappy]

LOL!!

Don't you LOVE bugs that fix themselves! Reboots are a Wunderful thing.


Glad it's working for you

 

[Phil K]

Thats the thing though - I'd rebooted countless times for the previous two days to no effect.
Then left it overnight.
Also - yeserday it inexplicably started the same thing with the floating white "optimum mode" error message on a black background.
Went to work, opened up when I got home and it started again fine, at 1680x1050 - if this OS had a neck, I'd STRANGLE it !

 

[renthor]

Might sound odd, but what cable are you using to connect your monitor to your graphics card?

 

[Phil K]

The usual run of the mill vga cable
Never let me down before.
Its W7, I think
I had to get shot of it and go back to Vista, as it wouldn't let me on. Just kept "forgetting" it had the drivers and limited me to less resolution options than Windows 95 gave me.....
Just that damn floating white note on a black background with "Optimum Mode" was 1680x1050 - the very resolution I had been trying to put on !

 

[Arxos]

DVI is soo much better than VGA

 

[renthor]

Yeah, go ahead and try running DVI if your monitor/card supports it. If your card supports it but your monitor doesn't, you can find fairly cheap VGA-to-DVI adapters that will let you use your VGA cable in the DVI slot. I was having similar problems with resolution/monitor not being detected properly, and using the DVI slot fixed it.

 

[Phil K]

Oh it does support it - both card and monitor
I just bever thought it made a great deal of diff.
Seven's off anyways, and personally I doubt it was the cable that was causing the refusal to set resolutions.
After all - it has no problem with Vista, has it ?

 

[renthor]

My card/monitor was working fine in Vista with VGA and then was not working in 7. Believe it or not, the cable fixed it. And nothing else I tried did. (That included drivers, safe-mode wiping of drivers, Power Strip, old drivers, beta drivers). It has something to do with EDID, I believe 7 has trouble detecting EDID over VGA. EDID is the information for your monitor that lets the OS know what modes it can support.

And DVI is much better than VGA. It's a digital input vs analog.

 

[Phil K]

Just bought a dvi cable and....nothing.
Not even working
Back to vga, is there something I have to do first or an NVidea problem ?
Baffled.