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07/08/2010 02:46 GMT+8 |
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Mood: Exhausted
BGM: Paramore - Careful
Just this July 1, I've been greeted with a Trojan that unleashed a nasty virus pack. Which, cost me a hard disk drive. Now, I've lost my old system I have to reinstall everything starting from the OS and along with the applications I use (which is a lot). As for settings, no worries. I am always prepared for things like this. I've got all my important data and settings saved.
The reason I made this post so suddenly is to preserve an important information that may help me or someone else having the same problem. The problem is that when you have a Samsung 940BW monitor and an NVIDIA 7600 GS card that are connected via DVI. Windows XP apparently can't give you its native resolution of 1440x900@60Hz by default. You have to hack your way in by adding it manually through custom timings.
In my experience, the last NVIDIA Forceware driver that worked for this monitor and video card combination is Forceware 93.71. So here are the custom timings and settings to get your 1440x900 resolution (that looks great).
1. Set your flat panel scaling mode to: Display (None) -> Apply.
2. Set the following settings when adding a new custom timing...
Horizontal Desktop Lines: 1440
Vertical Desktop Lines: 900
GDI Refresh Rate: 60
Bits per pixel: 32
Interlaced: No
Timing Standard: CVT reduced blank
Front-porch: 48x3
Active Pixels: 1440x900
Total Pixels: 1600x926
Sync: 32x6
Polarity: - /
Scaling type: None
Active Pixels: 1440x900
... then click Test then Ok. It doesn't matter if you don't see any change on your screen during the test. What matters is that it passes and added to your resolution list.
3. Exit from NVIDIA Control Panel
4. Right-click desktop and choose Properties to open Display Properties
5. In Settings tab, choose your newly added 1440x900 resolution the click Apply then Ok. That should work your now!
If it doesn't try reviewing the sequence of the steps again. If it still doesn't work. You should do the trick where you plug in your Analog connector first, add the resolution and make it work first then switch back to DVI and add the resolution again as explained above.
I hope this helps anyone. If you have money, I'd advise to get the newer monitors and video cards so you won't ever have this problem again.
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