Rez Issue: Thoughts to the cause?

I bought a new Monitor: Acer AL2216W 22" LCD w/ Native 1680x1050@60Hz. I am currently stuck at 1440x900.

• I have a Geforce FX5200 AGP video card
• All drivers are updated.
• I "forced" 1680x1050@60Hz via Nvidia Settings and got garbage
• I have switched between the DVI and VGA ports, to no avail

Any thought on what else I can do? Is it my card??? Help! :cry:

I bought a new Monitor: Acer AL2216W 22" LCD w/ Native 1680x1050@60Hz. I am currently stuck at 1440x900.

• I have a Geforce FX5200 AGP video card
• All drivers are updated.
• I "forced" 1680x1050@60Hz via Nvidia Settings and got garbage
• I have switched between the DVI and VGA ports, to no avail

Any thought on what else I can do? Is it my card??? Help! :cry:

Bozanimal

I bought a new Monitor: Acer AL2216W 22" LCD w/ Native 1680x1050@60Hz. I am currently stuck at 1440x900.

• I have a Geforce FX5200 AGP video card
• All drivers are updated.
• I "forced" 1680x1050@60Hz via Nvidia Settings and got garbage
• I have switched between the DVI and VGA ports, to no avail

Any thought on what else I can do? Is it my card??? Help! :cry:

Bozanimal

The card shoud be able to display that resolution. More likely the problem is that you didn't install the driver for the monitor (usually an .inf file with the supported display modes) so the card doesn't recognize what resolutions the monitor is capable of.Gog

I had already installed the monitor driver from the Acer site, but that wasn't the issue. In fact, I'm still not sure of the issue. I got lucky: I was able to get 1680x1050@60Hz from the Geforce FX5200. Here's how I did it:

I went to the manufacturer Asus and downloaded the latest official drivers. I had been using the latest Nvidia driver, which might have been a mistake. After installing the old drivers I reinstalled the monitor drivers from the Acer web site. After some additional frustration, I removed the DVI and used the VGA (again). 1680x1050 was available as a default option. Weird.

There may be some issue with using the native resolution over DVI, as I have found a number of similar complaints in other forums.

If you have this or a similar setup, similar problems, and have gotten the native resolution of a 22" monitor over DVI please let me know how you did it. I'd still rather be using DVI, since I have it available. I also believe DVDs look better voer the DVI.

Now that I've got WinXP up, I'm heading into Ubuntu. Wish me luck.