New Monitor

[bumbklaatt]

So, my old monitor died when I moved. It was an ex demonstrator that I'd had for about 8 years, so it'd earned it's keep.

I bought a 19" widescreen monitor from ebay, and it finally arrived yesterday

Comments

[_maverick_]

If you've got a 16:10 monitor (like mine) the proper 16:10 resolution you're after is 1680x1050.
If thats not selectable from the display properties, chances are its the onboard vid card yeah.

[bumbklaatt]

That resolution just made the monitor go white.

[_maverick_]

Well thats the one you want for 16:10.
You can get a basic vid card pretty cheap, i'd wager on-board wont handle it.

[bumbklaatt]

Possibly, although are you running a 19" widescreen, or larger?

[tendrils]

The paperwork that came with the monitor should have a native resolution.
If you set your video card to that resolution (if it can) then everything should be displayed normally.

I'll try to remember to check a few 19"W monitors at work and see what I come up with.

[bumbklaatt]

I tried that, the fucking paper work has the right resolutions for everything but the 19" widescreen. Bastards.

Cheers, it's a Samsung, if that helps.

[dawesius]

the alternative is usually 1440x900 for 19" monitors.

non native resolutions look like poo on lcds.

20" are 1680, and 22" like mine are still 1680, just bigger dots :)

[bumbklaatt]

Yeah, I can't select 1440 on mine. I think it's probably the video card.

[dawesius]

yeah, tis the logical answer. next step is determining what format video card you will need, most likely AGP for a slightly older PC, PCIe for a newer one.

[bumbklaatt]

AGP. I haven't even heard of PCIe.