I've already checked there, I can't find anything that seems to help. I am suspecting its the monitor's fault as well. Under the adapter properties it lists as available modes all resolution/refresh rate combinations correctly up to 1280x1024, so it seems that windows is correctly working with the graphics driver in deciding the available modes. Upon trying any modes other then 1024x768 or 800x600, it automatically switches into 1024x768 or 800x600, whichever is largest and still within the dimensions of the target resolution.
It seems that the display itself is having problems switching itself into 1280x1024. The only thing is that I can't understand how the monitor failed so suddenly, the picture was perfect up until just this morning when I restarted the system and it suddenly didn't like 1280x1024 resolution. I'm thinking there is some kind of problem the graphics card has communicating with the monitor telling it to go into higher resolutions or something. I'm going to be able to test the monitor out on another system, and will see what happens.
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Figured out a workaround for the problem. Apparently using an analog input works fine. I'm guessing its the digital cable itself that's somehow bad (doesn't really make sense that the monitor itself recieves analog but not digital correctly), but I'm not in a hurry to go out and buy an expensive digital cable just to try it. Thread can be closed.
Last edited by Snograt; Mar 30, 2009 at 08:15 AM // 08:15..
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