Moniter Resolution

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: Moniter Resolution

Hey, my buddy just gave me a 32' dynex lcd screen, its a TV but it has a pc input, so i hooked it up to my desktop computer and am trying to use it as my moniter seeing as my other one is liek 15inch or something like that.... but ne way, i cannot get the resolution down any more then 1024x768, and that just looks MASSIVE and bubbly on this big screen, does anyone know what i could do to change it? I know how to change it in properties and such, but thats the best it gets, i read somewhere if i uninstall and reinstall my video drivers it will work, but im not 100% on how to do that. Help please? Thank you!

TTUFAN24 · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject:

-=AlexXx=-, have you tried sitting further away? sorry, i dont computer

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

TTUFAN24, yes... but my keyboard is not wireless so it proves a slight problem.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

TTUFAN24, hahahaha....

Man, I don't know anything about this, but I'm kind of interested in monitor calibration. The colors on my monitor seem to appear way darker than normal, and I'm taking this WDMD class right now and the professor mentioned something about monitor calibration, but she couldn't show us becuase IT doesn't want tons of students messing with the monitors.

Anyway, that's my offshoot. Good luck, alexxx. maybe we'll be all be able to learn a little something here...

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 3:10 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, hope so... if some1 saw my moniter who didnt know me, they would think im like 90 and have horrible eye sight... your avatar is like the size of my fist.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

If your computer is 5+ years old your graphics card might not be capable of anything larger than 1024x768. New drivers won't fix that. If this is the case then you're gonna need to spend $50 or so on a new graphics card.

If you have XP, you can find out what graphics card you have by going into the Control Panel and selecting 'Display.' Right in the middle of the box should be the listing of what you have, like 'ATI Radeon X3905' or something. Then google that graphics card or go to the company's website to see if there is any updated drivers. If you have Vista, then you might consider just downloading the Windows 7 beta OS since it's free and a better OS even though it's still beta. Laughing

electricsnow- turning up the brightness on your monitor might help Very Happy

Here's a link that has some useful information about monitor calibration. There's also a few charts in there that you can use to adjust your brightness and contrast so that your monitor might look a bit better.
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm

triggamike · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1392 City: 225

scott a, werd get a radeon im rockin a 22" widescreen monitor at 1800 res, got it 2 years ago for 100 bucks, spend the same amount and you'll prolly get someting twice as good

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

scott a, Wow thanks for the help, alright i have a Radeon x600 256mb hypermemory video card, i have a S-Video port, do you think i should get an s-video port to VGA cord and use it for the larger monitor, would that work?

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Some online sites are claiming you can reach higher resolution than your 1024x768 if you change the refresh rate to 75 hertz. If that doesn't work it looks like you're SOL and you need to get a new graphics card.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jan 24, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject:

scott a, Figured it out! I got a DVI>HDMI cable for my new moniter, and i used my old VGA cable for my smaller moniter, so now im running both monitors, the big one at 1360x768 and the smaller one at 1280x1024. Its amazing! Thanks for the help! <3 HDMI ftw.