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Old January 14th, 2007, 05:41 AM
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Unhappy Dual Monitor Issue
Hello I was hoping someone could shed some light on a tiny problem I have been having. I bought a new computer from Dell, which has a video card with dual monitor. so I decided that I could use the LCD montor form the old computer and the new LCD that Dell sent me. So I have a Dell 19" (1280x1024) as my primary and a Acer 20" Widescreen (1680x1050) as the secondary. but i cannot set the acer's resolution to 1680x1050 for some reason... any help? right now its 1600x1024. other's are 1600x1200 or 1600x900. i have not found the drivers for the acer anywhere either. on the cd that came in the package of on the internet. thanks!!
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Old January 14th, 2007, 10:33 AM
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what graphics card is it?
You may need to update the driver.

May I ask why you don't have the acer as your primary?
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Old January 14th, 2007, 05:20 PM
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it is an nvidia geforce 7900 gs. the reason i dont havve the acer as the primary is because it displays blurry right now...
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Old January 14th, 2007, 05:27 PM
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Please update your driver here
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

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Old January 14th, 2007, 05:50 PM
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updated driver, still not getting the resoulution i need
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Old January 15th, 2007, 05:00 AM
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does your acer support that resolution? What is the model number for you acer?
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Old January 15th, 2007, 05:29 AM
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Acer Al2016w
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Old January 17th, 2007, 06:27 PM
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still havent fixed this problem any assistance would be great because i dont want to have to go out and purchase a new monitor...
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Old January 17th, 2007, 11:18 PM
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the acer needs drivers, conact acer for help, since you cant find em
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Old January 18th, 2007, 05:26 AM
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If you use the nVidia Control Panel, I'm pretty sure it has an option somewhere to set different resolutions for different monitors. This should include an option for the odd 1680x1050. If it doesn't, you'll need to setup a custom resolution, Forceware 93.71 should have a section to do this (earlier Forceware 90 series drivers do not have this feature).
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Old January 18th, 2007, 10:04 AM
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If you use the nVidia Control Panel, I'm pretty sure it has an option somewhere to set different resolutions for different monitors.
Yes you can configure each monitor individually in the multiple display wizard.
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Old January 18th, 2007, 04:47 PM
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I figured it should, but I only use the 80 release (release 90 hates me). Custom resolutions were taken out for 91.28, but must have been put back in somewhere around 91.47.
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Old January 21st, 2007, 06:09 AM
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just installing Forceware 93.71 now, will see if it will work as i have previously tried to custom resolution but have gotten an "invalid" dialog box...
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Old January 25th, 2007, 12:57 AM
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i had to switch the nvidia control panel back to classic but it did let me put in the custom resolution i wanted so no more blurry screen!!! thank you all. as a side note i switched back to the acer as my primary...
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Old January 25th, 2007, 03:47 PM
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That's great news. Cheers on the update.
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