Widescreen Resolution Problems Vista 5744

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Bellz

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FIXED: See post #5.

I have the Viewsonic 19" VA1912wb Widescreen LCD and I'm running Vista RC2 build 5744.
The problem is that it sees the monitor as a generic pnp monitor, but doesn't off me the true 1440x900 native resolution. :(

It only offers these:
800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x800, 1280x960, 1280x1024, 1920x1080.

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the monitor and installing the viewsonic xp display driver and rebooting, but I can't get it give me the 1440x900 resolution option. I didn't have this problem in previous builds. I've searched and searched for a similar discussion, and I've come up empty-handed so far.

Anybody have a fix or idea?
 
go to Viewsonic website and see if you can download an INF for the display you have. If you find one let me know and I can walk you through installing it if you need me too. (or someone else for that matter probably could)

Or if you have a disk with the monitor driver already that'll work too.
 
That's what's so aggrivating. It'll let me install the Monitor driver from Viewsonic, but it doesn't allow any more settings or resolutions. It just changes the name of the driver. Even after a reboot, it stays the same. It's gotta be something simple, because I didn't have this problem in any of the previous builds...only 5744.
 
Bellz said:
That's what's so aggrivating. It'll let me install the Monitor driver from Viewsonic, but it doesn't allow any more settings or resolutions. It just changes the name of the driver. Even after a reboot, it stays the same. It's gotta be something simple, because I didn't have this problem in any of the previous builds...only 5744.
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oops, I though you meant the graphics driver. sorry.
 
Ok, I fixed it. After reading THIS POST at the nVidia Forums, I found out about the 96.37 RC2 drivers. I installed the driver by using device mgr to update the driver and pointed it at the folder with the new driver. It worked and I'm now using my native resolution....FINALLY!

Evidently, it wasn't a monitor driver problem at all, but a glitch in the RC2 nVidia display drivers and this fixes the problem.

Here's the link to the 96.37 driver. Anybody having widescreen resolution problems in RC2 should try this.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11179
 
On a positive side note, Star wars empire at war works in this configuration. w00h00! :D :D
 
Hello, sorry to bump this thread but i'm having problems getting 1440x900.

When I download the drivers from that LaptopGO website I get only options for laptop graphics cards, so I'm unsure as to how you received 1440x900 resolution?

Thanks.,.
 
I have the exact same monitor and issue. I am glad you found the fix. Great post!
 
****CAUTION IF YOU BORK YOUR BOX WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS IT IS NOT MY FAULT****
****CAUTION IF YOU BORK YOUR BOX WITH THESE INSTRUCTIONS IT IS NOT MY FAULT****

this is not intended to be a guide, rather it is the steps i took that were successful. This may not work for you.

When I tried using device manager it would fail every time. So...I booted into safe mode F8 as always for that.
I then downloaded the 9637.exe driver file from here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/nvidia/95series/9637_vista.exe

and then the modded inf file from here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/infs/95series/9637inf_lh/nv_aw.inf

once i extracted the executable file i replaced the nv_aw.inf inside with the modded one.

at that point i went into device manager and looked at the driver details for the existing drivers to see where the correct file locations were for the files i had to replace. I copied each file one at a time.. windows gave an error message about the file being in use so i wound up changing the permissions to give my user account full control over those files. by right clicking each file and going to permission and then editing the permission settings. once i did that i was able to copy over all of the existing files with no problem. when i was done, i went back and changed the permissions back to what they had been set at. once that was completed. i restarted and upon entering vista i went to the display manager console and BAM!! set my resolution to 1440x900 and had to reset the color depth to 32 bit.
it looks great.

edited to include this link where i found more information.
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11179
 
Thanks Ice Burg. I hope your more detailed instructions help out. I just followed the instructions from that nvidia forum post I linked above and it worked. I didn't have to boot into safe mode or adjust permissions. Just lucky, I guess.
 
i am glad that you posted your fix that led me the info i needed pertaining to my exact situation. No matter what i did install the old drivers my screen would go blank and i was flying blind...hence the safemode method i used..[H] helps again!!
 
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