PC Peripherals Help! 20" not running at full res.

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Hi guys,
I just got myself a Samsung 2033SW. Hoping to get a fulfilling graphical experience I plugged it to my system, only to find out that it is not running at full resolution (1600*900). Here are the steps which I took:
1) Installed Samsung monitor driver but saw that the max. resolution available is still 1280*800
2) Uninstalled the VIA VGA driver (K8MM-V motherboard). Now I see 1600*1200 resolution as the max. available (still no 1600*900) but images are really choppy. Whenever I refresh it takes 1/2 a second to refresh the whole page from top to bottom.
3) Installed the VIA driver again and now again the max. resolution it's showing is 1280*800.

Currently I'm running my system on 1024*786 but I don't like looking at it in this state. So please suggest what should I do to get that darn 1600*900 res.
 
most probably your onboard video does not support that high resolution. how much memory is given to onboard video? make it to max.
 
sammy25 said:
Hi guys,
I just got myself a Samsung 2033SW. Hoping to get a fulfilling graphical experience I plugged it to my system, only to find out that it is not running at full resolution (1600*900). Here are the steps which I took:
1) Installed Samsung monitor driver but saw that the max. resolution available is still 1280*800
2) Uninstalled the VIA VGA driver (K8MM-V motherboard). Now I see 1600*1200 resolution as the max. available (still no 1600*900) but images are really choppy. Whenever I refresh it takes 1/2 a second to refresh the whole page from top to bottom.
3) Installed the VIA driver again and now again the max. resolution it's showing is 1280*800.

Currently I'm running my system on 1024*786 but I don't like looking at it in this state. So please suggest what should I do to get that darn 1600*900 res.
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ur gpu wont be supporting that resolution maybe...

btw...how much did u get it for??
 
Onboard is S3 Graphics Unicrome and dat is very very old chipset. :cool2:
Prolly it doesn't support that resolution at all.

U can try to force the resolution but i doubt u'll have that option even in the drivers...
Better get a cheapo graphics card or just get a new mobo...:)
Buying a 20" and watching it in 12xx resolution would be too bad a experience...:no:
 
your onboard graphics is not supporting 16:9 resolution... maybe coz its very old... get any cheap gpu like 7200LE or something u will get it in 1200 bucks max. then it will support your monitor's 16:9 reso :D
 
First confirm the onboard graphics type cause even intel GMA 900 on intel 915 motherboards can support 2048x1536 pixels at refresh rates up to 85 Hz

So I think maybe the problem is somewhere else.
 
It seems that ur onboard graphics is not able to handle this resolution, like everyone here is telling.

Get a cheap graphics card and then u should have no problems.
 
get a cheap gfx card coz:

-ul be able to play movies at full res

-at better quality and smoothness than any onboard-gfx..
 
My motherboard is MSI K8MM-V with 64 MB onboard graphics. (But I think it subtracts that 64 MB from my 512MB RAM as I see a RAM of only 448MB).

Also when I was looking for driver updates I found this description for the new VGA driver:

VIA K8M800 VGA Drivers Description • Win2K/XP WHQL pass

• The Audio application which revises MS-7181(VT1617A) has signals mixed and disorderly

Driver Version:

2K/XP: 6.14.10.0297

Win9x/ME: 4.14.10.0050

WinXP 64-bit: 6.14.10.6004

Update Date 2006-10-02

@Nitant: Will the powerstrip be able to help me even if the onboard graphics doesn't support a res. beyond 1280*800?
 
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