In that case, if you followed my check of available
resolutions, you can't use the monitor in that resolution
with that laptop.
"thewoland" <thewoland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:36AD84B8-823F-4F63-99AA-AA9C69996962@microsoft.com...
> "Check for the latest driver for that video card from ATI
> and monitor driver
> for the monitor. "
> Did that. Unfortunately, drivers from ATI don't work,
> claiming that I have
> the wrong hardware, while drivers from the manufacturer's
> site (MSI) don't
> solve the problem...
>
>
> By the way, I have he same problem in Vista as well.
>
>
> "LVTravel" wrote:
>
>> Check for the latest driver for that video card from ATI
>> and
>> monitor driver for the monitor. (These drivers "talk" to
>> each other to enable different available resolutions.) If
>> they are already installed you will NOT be able to use
>> the
>> desired resolution as the video driver would not support
>> that resolution. I had that issue when I went from a
>> 1280 X
>> 1024 monitor to a wide-screen monitor on my desktop. The
>> previous driver didn't go to that particular wide-screen
>> resolution but when I upgraded the driver the new
>> resolution
>> was then available.
>>
>> Not all drivers will run a video card at all resolutions.
>> To see what modes (resolutions) the video card is capable
>> of, right click a blank area of the desktop. Click
>> properties. Click Settings tab. Click Advanced button.
>> Click Monitor tab. Uncheck the button Hide modes.....
>> then
>> click Apply. Click Adapter tab. Click List All Modes
>> button. Scroll the list to see if the resolution you
>> want
>> shows. If not, the driver won't display the resolution.
>> (make sure you go back to Monitor tab and recheck the
>> Hide
>> modes .... then click Apply again because if you don't
>> you
>> may click a resolution that the monitor can't display and
>> it
>> could cause your screen to go blank later.
>>
>>
>> "thewoland" <thewoland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in
>> message
>> news:0713A2CC-93F4-4701-ACE8-BE112D5159BB@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all,
>> > I own a MSI S420 laptop computer with ATI 200M chipset
>> > (X300 o/b).
>> > Recently I've acquired a 22" monitor designed for
>> > 1680x1050 display
>> > resolution.
>> >
>> > I have a trouble setting it up working with my laptop
>> > as
>> > an external monitor.
>> > For some reason neither in XP nor Vista, the display
>> > setup
>> > does not show the
>> > correct resolution among the options available.
>> > The GPU is capable of displaying much larger
>> > resolutions.
>> > It allows me to
>> > choose resolutions up to 2048x1536, but not the
>> > 1680x1050.
>> >
>>
>>
>>