Can't set resolution to 1680x105 on external monitor..

Hello everyone and happy holidays. I've looked everywhere and can't find a way to use the 1680x1050 resolution of my external dell 2005 fpw monitor. any tips? any links? i wasted way too much time on this with no results.. i saw something like a guide using moninfo, but cant find the full guide to mod the driver .inf file. let alone moninfo doesnt properly show the edid info of my dell monitor...

HELP!

 

SEARCH is showing this:

http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p55701
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p54014
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p54011
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p46108
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... ternal+vga
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p40219
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p27629
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p25319
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p20178
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p18301
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p10365
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... vga#p10364
http://aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopi ... +vga#p7927


Hope you can find something for you...

 

how long is the vga cable?

 

This can be answered by any computer shop. Starting from 1m - I have one of those - up to 9m I believe. Above some length VGA loosing signal quality AFAIK. Obviously everything depends on cable quality. VGA cable integrated with LCD screens are about 1,5m long.

 

what does the length of the cable have to do with anything???

the links mentioned above have to do with correcting the problem in linux... i need the fix for windows... hasnt anyone in here encoutered the same problem? :/

 

i had this problem when i used a 5m cable once (a cheap one) (dont know if it makes a difference to more expensive ones) but it only let me use 1600x1200 but not 1680x1050, but when i used a 1.5m one it did let me..

so..how long?

 

2m but i doubt it has to do with this. at least can someone tell me how to properly get the edid info from my monitor? moninfo keeps showing info for the laptop screen although i have the external monitor connected..

 

Did you try EDIDViewer?

http://www.eldim.fr/products/display-co ... edidviewer

 

the secondary monitor's EDID info is in the same place as the primary one

 

are you using any additional programs such as ultramon?

 

well, just in case someone is interested, it actually WAS the damn vga cable... that was just ridiculous... i mean its just a cable...anyway, problem solved! thanks everyone for trying to help

 

:mrgreen: