On Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:54 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > >Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:54:32 +0000 >From: Paul Hill >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: >Subject: Re: [NF] Does anyone have experience hacking video card > >On Jan 17, 2008 2:28 AM, Joe Yoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have an LCD monitor with a 1440x900 pixel display. The ATI Rage XL PCI >> video card I am using has a maximum resolution as now installed of >> 1600x1200. ATI considers the card obsolete. The last drivers they have >> available are from 2002 which apparently was before the advent of my >> display's screen format. >> >> Google found some info about editing the driver setup information file so I >> used that to add the 1440x900 format to the atiixpad.inf file and did a >> reinstall. This did not seem to have any effect. I am totally in the dark >> with how the operating system handles the display adapter. Does it consult >> the .inf file only at installation or does it read it each time the system >> boots? Is the same info in the registry and can I safely change it there? >> >> I think I'll just buy another card unless someone has another suggestion of >> how to convince the display adapter to operate at 1440x900. > >Never used an ATI card but my Nvidia card (a really old GeForce 2) has >an tab in the advanced section of the display properties where you can >define custom screen modes. Is there nothing similar for ATI? If >not, maybe you should get a Nvidia card next time... > >-- >Paul > >Mine has the option of selecting from a list versus using DDC information but >the list does not have the 1440x900 configuration as an option.
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