Keith W wrote:
> Along with my normal PC I have a second elderly one that is used for back
> ups and general messing about. They share keyboard, mouse and widescreen
> monitor via a KVM switch. The second machine is a Pentium 3 (500mhz) with
> an Intel 810 mobo and an ATI Rage Pro Turbo PCI graphics card. I have
> Windows XP Pro installed and the latest drivers for the card from the ATI
> website. However, it cannot produce the 1440x900 resolution that the mintor
> requires and I am having to make do with 1280x1024 which reduces picture
> quality somewhat but I had accepted that, because of the age of the machine,
> it was all I could get and I cannot justify buying a new card. Now
> however, I have just made it dual boot by installing xubuntu and amazingly
> that has identified the monitor size and is producing 1440x900 through the
> same mobo and graphics card.
>
> My question is, now that I know Linux can do it, how can I accomplish it in
> Windows? I have tried Powerstrip but that gives the same results as
> before, i.e. 1280x1024.

You added a custom resolution? I would have thought that would work.
It has for me, several times, but it's only diagnostic as I'm too cheap
to shell out $30 for the benefit. There is an earlier version kept on
the site because some of the older video cards are no longer supported.
You might try that.

Check out Tip #4 on this list:
http://www.onlinesoftwareguide.com/0606xptips.html

That looks a bit promising to me so I think I'll try to make that final
tweak on my neighbor's setup. I'll let you know how it turns out.