Gfx card exceeds monitor's capacity

[TheBigBasicQ]

I have a ATI Radeon 7000 card(64MB VRAM). It can handle resolutions upto 2048x1536x32bpp. But my monitor can handle upto 1280x960x32bpp. Once I accidentally set the resolution above it and my monitor switched off since it couldnt handle the resolution. I couldnt return to the original resolution because everytime i booted into windows it used to try to set that resolution and my monitor would switch off. I went into safemode and removed the driver and somehow managed to set the resolution back to 800x600x32.

Now, how do I prevent this from reoccuring? Can I remove the particular resolutions from the list of supported resolutions(i.e. the one which i get when i rightclick the 'monitor' icon on my taskbar)?

The ATI driver doesnt help at all.

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[AirCon]

Try to set your monitor to "plug & play monitor", it should handle the correct max. resolution & refresh rate for your monitor. If you can't set it, try to remove the monitor from device manager, then remove display driver, reboot.

When windows restart it will recognized your monitor, watch for the monitor name. If your monitor supported plug & play, Windows should find "plug & play monitor". If it is plug & play, reinstall the display driver.

Hope it works

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[TheBigBasicQ]

I wont work. My monitor is not PnP. I lost my driver as well =(. Windows detects it as "Default Monitor"

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[AirCon]

Are you sure it's not PnP?

You can try to force it to use PnP (change manually) if you want. After that you can check from Display properties->Advanced->Monitor. Does the "Monitor Energy...' checked & dimmed? Also did you checked "Automatically detect PnP monitors" ?

Notes: If you want to do that, please Backup Your Registry First !!

If that doesn't work all you can do is to set manually to the closest monitor types that is matched to your monitor.

Hope someone can give you another suggestion
Regards

-- AirCon --

 

[wolluf]

So you can't get another driver for the monitor? If not would agree with aircon - find a monitor driver for monitor with similar spec to yours and install that (ie, one with same max resolution/refresh rate).

 

[TheBigBasicQ]

Can I just use the Standard SVGA 800x600 @ 75Hz monitor? I dont really require a monitor that goes above that rez.

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[AirCon]

Yes you can if you sure the monitor can handle that. Just try it

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[TheBigBasicQ]

Sorry for posting late. I already tried it and it worked. I also checked my monitor's max refresh rate and it was 75Hz so no problems =P

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