Vista monitor refresh

Close EMAS. Update monitor driver with created inf. Allow and accept any driver warning messages. William Great tutorial I tried it and it allowed me to add another resolution to my flat panel monitor.

LCDs usually should be run at 60 Hz anyways Wanted to thank you for this article. I have another scenerio where this is a solution. We had an LCD monitor and projector connected through a Y connector. When we switched to Win 7 the system would only put a "ghosted" image on the projector. Using this modified cable allowed us to set the compatible resolution for the widescreen projectors and the LCD worked at that resolution OK.

Bill Glad it worked for you. On a side note, are you a developer for BeCubed? I remember using some BeCubed common dialog control back in the good old VB6 days, though I ended up just subclassing the standard Win32 dialog in the end it can be seen in NPS 2. BeCubed not too active now, there mostly for support of those old tools. Alastair Walker. Just wanted to say a BIG thanks I was getting desperate until I read this article.

Thanks again from someone who can now enjoy a decent sized screen! So, there isn't any other solution? Sorry for my English. Mafian Did you try forcing the refresh rate in Catalyst Control Center? Also, uncheck the "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display" checkbox. That might be affecting it, because every single monitor with a VGA connection is required to support 60 Hz refresh rates.

Yes, I tried this firstly I tried Advanced Tweaks, RefreshForce utils registry modification William Will your the man, thanks for that info. Your tutorial hit the spot. Thanks man, you save me a lot of headaches. It's a hardware-level modification. It doesn't hurt to try William's method since it's not permanent.

If it doesn't work, you can always revert it and try my method. Hi, I removed the pin and put in enable VGA mode on windows 7 64 bit. All modes are showing not hidden. I still keep getting out of range message. I have an ATI video card. HP laptop. Gwhiz Did your monitor support x 75 Hz before the pin mod?

Most monitors can only handle 60 Hz at their highest resolution If that's the case, you're probably getting the "Out Of Range" message because your video driver is defaulting to the maximum refresh rate of the video card which could be 75 Hz, 85 Hz, or more.

Force your refresh rate to 60 Hz and see if it works. If your monitor officially supports x but you modified the cable and now see x, then it obviously has a very low chance of working. There's a reason they set its EDID that way at the factory -- the monitor only has X physical pixels and you're trying to feed it more pixels than it physically has.

My modification isn't intended for increasing maximum resolution; it's intended for allowing officially-supported modes to be enabled if Windows is being uncooperative. I made my freedom cable, it works perfectly. I think i screwed up my EDID in my monitor, help!! The "out of range" message happens when the pixel clock frequency can't properly be handled by the monitor; increasing either resolution or refresh rate will increase the pixel clock.

Horizontal and vertical refresh rate make a difference too. Which video card do you have? NVIDIA cards have extensive options for custom resolutions, where you can specify all of the details and get it to work again. The workaround with the cable and installing the newest drivers from AMD Again: Thanks!!

Thanks for this post! I have three monitors between two computers. The middle screen is the extended desktop for computer 1 AND the main desktop for computer 2.

By pulling out pin 12 in the monitor's VGA cable, I successfully use a KVM switcher to change the middle monitor between the two with no problems. Computer 1 is Windows XP and computer 2 is Windows 7. It works like a charm! That said, the jump from 60Hz to Hz is noticeably better. However, there are a number of drawbacks, including the requirement for a compatible GPU. The prices are also astronomically high.

The refresh rate is how frequently the monitor updates the image on the screen. VSync technology fixes this by essentially forcing the GPU and monitor to get along by synchronizing them. Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you!

Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. I just had to reboot, and of course it rearranged all my icons again. I tried the icon restore, and it moved some of them closer to where they were, but there were still quite a few in different places than I originally had them… any other suggestions?

I know this hard way. The wring icon will be self corrected. Or there is a microsoft update to fix this but it told me that this update was not for my system. KB is the update. Click here to cancel reply. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.

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