Help! - Dell 2407WFP and eVGA 7950 GT can't get 1440x900 resolution

fighterpilot

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Not sure if this is a hardware issue with monitor or video card, driver issue, or other?

I basically want to display 1440x900 resolution on my Dell 2407WFP (1920x1200 native) and am using an eVGA 7950 GT 512MB PCI-E video card. I tried to create a custom resolution but it says it can't do it.

Is there a way to get this to display 1440x900 and if I do will it hurt my monitor?

Thanks!
 

krotchy

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Just curious but Why?

that being said. Did you check the manual to see what the supported resolutions for the 2407 are? LCD's unlike CRT's cant accept any resolution you throw at them.
 

BassBomb

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Run it in DVI, set up Flat panel scaling options to "nvidia fixed aspect ratio scaling"

or to "do not scale"

see which you like best
 

fighterpilot

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THanks for the responses guys.

I just perused through the Anandtech review of this monitor and that was a complaint that it could handle these other resolutions, just it isn't included with the Dell driver. I used PowerStrip, and it seemed to switch just fine to those resolutions.

And to answer why, well, same reason in Anandtech article... games.

The only widescreen resolution supported by the default Dell drivers are 1680x1050 and 1920x1200. I want to play the new game STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and it is pretty horsepower hungry. It runs sub 25fps at 1680x1050, regardless of settings, as it seems to be resolution dependent for the most part. Run it at 1280x800 or 1440x900 and I get 30+ fps consistent so far, with settings at "high".

For desktop purposes, I of course keep the 1920x1200 resolution.
 

imported_Imp

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That's not good news. Got my new 2407 ordered, and was planning on using 1400x900 for most gaming. Swear I heard it works with 'real/normal' drivers.
 

Matt2

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Your 2407WFP doesnt support 1:1 pixel mapping?

That would be the best option IMO.
 

fighterpilot

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2407 is easy for selecting between 1:1, aspect, and fill. That's not the issue.

The issue is that you can't select 1440x900 in the video resolution because it isn't natively supported by the 2407 drivers.
 

de8212

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Just got my 2407 hooked up late last night and was actually gonna post a thread this morning about what driver to install for it.
I haven't even messed with the cd that came with it but I couldn't find anything on dell's site.
I don't play many games so I don't need to change from the 1920 x 1200 but I would like to have the option. So I'll need powerstrip???
 

BernardP

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A couple of months ago, I asked in the Dell forums if the 2407 could display 1200x800 and two owners confirmed that it could. There was no reference to Powerstrip.

Can't the 2407 be made to display 1440x900 or 1200x800 by having the NVidia videocard scale the resolution internally, like BassBomb suggests above? After this operation, a 1920x1200 signal is sent to the monitor which, thus, doesn't "know" it is displaying a lower resolution.


 

imported_Imp

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1:1 is excellent for backwards, non-WS resolutions, but I was hoping to use fill and just suck it up in exchange for 24" of screen.

So, which resolutions do the 2407 support other than 1680x1080(or something) and 1920x1200?

Also, thanks for the Nvidia driver scaling reminder. Must check/play with that when I get home.
 

BernardP

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According the the Display Mode section in the 2407's user's manual

1680x1050 is not even natively supported. All "Preset" supported resolutions are useless non-widescreen resolutions, except 1920x1200. (But you say the monitor does display 1680x1050)

Each time I look at an online manual for a widescreen monitor, I see all those non-widescreen non-native resolutions. Typically, the only supported widescreen resolution is the native resolution.

Is this a matter of laziness from the LCD monitor makers? A choice of lower widescreen resolutions, keeping the 16:10 aspect ratio, would be more useful than a bunch of 5:4 and 4:3 resolutions...At least, the indispensable 720x400 (18:10) is available on the 2407
 

gramboh

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Resolutions that the driver tells Windows are possible are controlled by a .INF file I think. If you get a tool like Reforce you can write to the registry the supported settings and they will show up without having to use Powerstrip. I use this with my current system with a CRT to allow the right refresh rates without installing a monitor driver.
 

BernardP

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Originally posted by: gramboh
Resolutions that the driver tells Windows are possible are controlled by a .INF file I think. If you get a tool like Reforce you can write to the registry the supported settings and they will show up without having to use Powerstrip. I use this with my current system with a CRT to allow the right refresh rates without installing a monitor driver.

Interesting.

You say Reforce, but I find RefreshForce. Is it the same app?

http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/

 

aatf510

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I am a 2405fpw and 7900gt owner.
Of course, 1680 x 1050 is there the first day I installed the drivers, and it works.
Also, after spending some time I was able to add and use custom resolution 1280 x 800. However, I could never get 1440 x 900 working.
 

AmdInside

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Try the following:

1) Bring up the registry editor by by clicking on the Start button. Then select "Run". In the Open field, type in "regedit" and then press the OK button.

2) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL)MACHINE -> Hardware -> DeviceMap -> Video

3) On the right panel, you will find several registry keys. Double click on the key labeled "\Device]Video0". This will open up a new windows. In the Value Data field, you will find a long string which ends with "0000". Before these numbers, you will find a long string that is in between curly brackets { }. Copy the string in between the curly crackets into notepad or any other blank text document file for reference later. Then click on the OK button to close the edit string window.

5) Click on the "Edit" menu button within the Windows Registry and choose "Find". In the "Find what" field, paste the string from the "Video0" key that you copied into your notepad. Then click on the "Find Next" button. It should stop once it finds the folder with this name on the left column. If it doesn't and stops on a registry on the right side instead, choose "Find Again" to have it continue searching until it stops on a folder with the same name.

6) Once it finds the folder, double click on this folder to expand it. Beneath it, you will find 3 folders. Left-click on the folder labeled "0000". This will show this folder contents on the right column. The list of registry keys is very long. Scroll through the list until you find "NV_Modes" and double-left click over this to edit this value. Start on the first line and search for "SHV". Right after "SHV", type "1440x900x32=1;" (don't forget the semicolon after the "1"). Make sure there is a space right after SHV and the value you added . Then close the registry and then restart your computer.
 

gramboh

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Originally posted by: BernardP
Originally posted by: gramboh
Resolutions that the driver tells Windows are possible are controlled by a .INF file I think. If you get a tool like Reforce you can write to the registry the supported settings and they will show up without having to use Powerstrip. I use this with my current system with a CRT to allow the right refresh rates without installing a monitor driver.

Interesting.

You say Reforce, but I find RefreshForce. Is it the same app?

http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/


Correct, sorry I always get the name wrong (and confuse it with Refreshlock, which isn't as good). Use Refreshforce. it does the same thing as AmdInside is describing without the hassle.
 

ineedunow

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AmdInside

That is a GREAT piece of information. Helped me a great deal with My DELL widescreen.

Thanks for taking the time to post information like that.

-steve
 

Barnaby W. Füi

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The problem I have with my 2407wfp is that it doesn't display the 640x480 bios stuff when booting up. I've looked through the menus and I can't seem to find anything regarding this. Is my video card screwy or something? Once it goes into 1920x1200 everything is just fine. It's connected via DVI but I tried VGA and if I remember correctly, that had the same problem.
 

BernardP

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Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
The problem I have with my 2407wfp is that it doesn't display the 640x480 bios stuff when booting up. I've looked through the menus and I can't seem to find anything regarding this. Is my video card screwy or something? Once it goes into 1920x1200 everything is just fine. It's connected via DVI but I tried VGA and if I remember correctly, that had the same problem.
Do you mean you can't access the BIOS with this monitor? Bummer
This can't be normal.

 

Barnaby W. Füi

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Originally posted by: BernardP
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
The problem I have with my 2407wfp is that it doesn't display the 640x480 bios stuff when booting up. I've looked through the menus and I can't seem to find anything regarding this. Is my video card screwy or something? Once it goes into 1920x1200 everything is just fine. It's connected via DVI but I tried VGA and if I remember correctly, that had the same problem.
Do you mean you can't access the BIOS with this monitor? Bummer
This can't be normal.
Yep.

I went into the bios and changed the default video from pci to agp and this caused vga to work for bootup now on the 2407wfp, but DVI still doesn't. Kinda sucks.
 

gramboh

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I've got a 2407WFP on DVI on my 8800GTS and I can see the BIOS splash and BIOS (blue) screens just fine. The same was true on my older PC with the DVI port on a 6800GS AGP.

There is definetely something wrong, it should display 640x480.
 

Matthias99

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Originally posted by: gramboh
I've got a 2407WFP on DVI on my 8800GTS and I can see the BIOS splash and BIOS (blue) screens just fine. The same was true on my older PC with the DVI port on a 6800GS AGP.

There is definetely something wrong, it should display 640x480.

This is likely a problem with the video card's DVI output, not the monitor (if you can run 640x480 over DVI in Windows, then it's not hte monitor). Some motherboards/video cards can only come up in VGA until they get into a real OS.
 
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