Grinder wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I tried the tip and it didn't work. The registry just got changed
back on restart.

I installed Powerstrip, and had mixed results. Creating and installing
a custom monitor inf did get the stated maximum (optimal) resolution to
show up in my options. I was, however, able to add that resolution
within Powerstrip, and it worked after a restart.