Hi everyone,
I'm running a year and a half old Inspiron 9300 17" w/ 1 gb ram, 1.83 ghz processor, and nVidia GeForce Go 6800 card w/ 256 mb vram. It runs its own monitor at 1900 x 1200 no sweat.
Received a sweet 20" widescreen Samsung display for Christmas. It's a SyncMaster 205BW WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050). When I plugged it in, it was quickly able to move to dual view, but I noticed its screen was kind of chunky and weird looking. I figured that for some reason it hadn't picked the optimum resolution, so I jumped down the rabbit hole of display properties.
Sure enough, it was attempting to display 1280 x 1024 - but the slider wouldn't go any higher than that. My epic quest to allow the external monitor to display its native resolution has so far included:
-Downloading new drivers for the GeForce Go 6800 from Dell's website
-De-selected the 'disaply only supported resolutions' box
-Attempted to add a custom resolution
-Installed, un-installed and re-installed the monitor's supplied drivers
-Made sure that the computer recognized the monitor as exactly what it is as opposed to 'plug and play' monitor
-Dropped the laptop's monitor resolution down before trying to increase the external's
-Changed from dual-view to using the external as the only monitor
One other odd thing is that a few times the display has informed me that 1280 x 1024 is the maximum supported resolution of the monitor... but that's just not true! It's a very wide screen, and the box, manual, website, etc all confirm it should be able to to 1680 x 1050.
But nothing works! I feel like I've clicked every button, checked every help option, and read every spec sheet that I can think of and I'm still nowhere. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!
I'm running a year and a half old Inspiron 9300 17" w/ 1 gb ram, 1.83 ghz processor, and nVidia GeForce Go 6800 card w/ 256 mb vram. It runs its own monitor at 1900 x 1200 no sweat.
Received a sweet 20" widescreen Samsung display for Christmas. It's a SyncMaster 205BW WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050). When I plugged it in, it was quickly able to move to dual view, but I noticed its screen was kind of chunky and weird looking. I figured that for some reason it hadn't picked the optimum resolution, so I jumped down the rabbit hole of display properties.
Sure enough, it was attempting to display 1280 x 1024 - but the slider wouldn't go any higher than that. My epic quest to allow the external monitor to display its native resolution has so far included:
-Downloading new drivers for the GeForce Go 6800 from Dell's website
-De-selected the 'disaply only supported resolutions' box
-Attempted to add a custom resolution
-Installed, un-installed and re-installed the monitor's supplied drivers
-Made sure that the computer recognized the monitor as exactly what it is as opposed to 'plug and play' monitor
-Dropped the laptop's monitor resolution down before trying to increase the external's
-Changed from dual-view to using the external as the only monitor
One other odd thing is that a few times the display has informed me that 1280 x 1024 is the maximum supported resolution of the monitor... but that's just not true! It's a very wide screen, and the box, manual, website, etc all confirm it should be able to to 1680 x 1050.
But nothing works! I feel like I've clicked every button, checked every help option, and read every spec sheet that I can think of and I'm still nowhere. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!
