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Screen Resolution / Video Driver ?

892 Views 7 Replies 2 Participants Last post by Goldfish92, Oct 24, 2007

jazix

Discussion Starter · Oct 23, 2007

Hi everyone,
Just yesterday a strange thing happened to my computer. My computer was on but my monitor had gone into standby mode because it could not detect a signal. After turning it off and then on again it came back on but the resolution was not at what it should be (1680 x 1050 widescreen).
I'm running Vista, so I went into the display settings and discovered that the maximum resolution I could set was too small (cant remember what it was exactly) and made everything on my screen jumbo sized.
So I did a bit of googling and discovered that the video driver could be to blame, so I uninstalled my NVIDIA and re-started the computer and was able to put my resolution back to my normal 1680 x 1050. Problem now is I cant do much in the way of graphics / video which is really annoying. I need to have the video driver but I also want my normal resolution!! I have tried downloading the latest driver made for Vista from the NVIDIA site but this still does the same thing.

Any suggestions?

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Goldfish92

· #2 · Oct 23, 2007

Go to www.nvidia.com then drivers and downloads and just download the correct driver for your card, install and there you have it

Post back if you are having any trouble.

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jazix

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 23, 2007

I have tried downloading the latest driver made for Vista from the NVIDIA site but this still does the same thing.

I've already tried that

Everytime I start my computer up now I have to change my resolution to what it should be and Vista keeps telling me I need to download the video driver.. but I know that if I do it will screw my resolution up ..

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Goldfish92

· #4 · Oct 23, 2007

How is the monitor connected to the card. What cable type DVI or VGA?

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jazix

Discussion Starter · #5 · Oct 23, 2007

The cable type is DVI-D :up:

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Goldfish92

· #6 · Oct 24, 2007

PROBLEM IS RIGHT THERE!

Now, I have no idea why and I'm not sure anyone else does yet but some monitors will not work using DVI. If you try with a VGA cable it will most likely work straight away!

Give it a try

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jazix

Discussion Starter · #7 · Oct 24, 2007

It had been working fine with that cable for a couple of months just up until the other day.. are you sure it's the cable? 'Cause I'll go buy one if they're not too pricey and try it (I'm a bit of a poor student

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Goldfish92

· #8 · Oct 24, 2007

it is just any DVI that won't work...... you will need a VGA cable (try to borrow one first to check) and from all the posts I have seen this in an tried to help resole I have never found a fix...

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