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Expert: Chris Morrison Date: 3/28/2008 Subject: Radeon X1600 vid card won't display monitor native res. of 1680X1050
Question I have ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Pro PCI-Express w/512 graphics card. Just switched monitors to Westinghouse LCM-22w3 -- a 22" widescreen LCD display with native display resolution of 1680x1050. I upgraded to the most recent drivers for ATI card yesterday, but this resolution still is not supported. Doesn't even show up as a choice -- 1600x1200 is largest offered. Called ATI tech support. They said I should get latest Westinghouse driver for the display. But I have learned this LCD display uses no drivers. The display shows up in my 32-bit Vista system as a "Generic NON-PnP Monitor." Odd- not even plug'n'play. ATI tech support said I should check out Entech Powerstrip software - that I might be able to "force" this resolution on the ATI card. Is this all good advice? Or to ultimately use this LCD display, will I need to get a new graphics card? Help, please?!
Answer try uninstalling the monitor from device manager or updating the driver. let it check online for the driver. There drivers for all westing house monitors. Windows will supply them by checking online.
Also you can try uninstalling the video card from device manager and uninstalling the ATI software, then reboot and reinstall the drivers.
I think the main problem here is windows doesn't know what the monitor is. Updating the driver should fix this.
