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Intel 82845G - cannot choose 1280 X 800?!

  • 13-09-2005 9:17pm
    #1
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,195 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I've got a problems selecting a 1280 X 800 resolution on my 15" flatscreen monitor.

    Graphics card is a Intel® 82845G Graphics Controller. 1280 X 800 is one of the valid modes listed for it in the properties for the card but the 1280 X 800 res is not one of options on the slider to be selected under screen resolution in the Display Properties - Settings tab...

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance!


Comments

  • #2
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    cos its prob not a widescreen monitor - 1280x800 is widescreen resolution. 1280x1024 is normal, as is 1024x768...Thats my best guess anyways - without patronising but you're all up-to-date with drivers for card and monitor yea?


  • #3
    mp3guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,977 ✭✭✭mp3guy


    Yeah, 1280x800 is widescreen, oh, and 15" lcd's only take 786432 pixels, whereas 1280x800 needs 1024000


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,195 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Cheers for that guys!

    Unfortunately when i meant "I".. i actually meant my brother who's ringing me so can't check any real details regarding monitor etc!

    He told me he can select (1024x768 along with a couple of other lower resolutions) but that he wants the less-stretched 1280x800 that he uses in work!

    Got him to install the latest drivers anyways - which seemed to have been updated recently enough but he'll let me know if it works.. and if he didn't ring, just take it that it didn't! ... haven't been called yet! :D


  • #5
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Thats why I want nothing to do with flat panels yet - even most 19" monitors still only support 1280x1024 which is just **** considering some of the power being housed in modern graphics cards..whats the point of a 7800 GTX if everything is going at 1280x1024??? If you have the desk, CRT still rules imho...


  • #6
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    As a rule you should almost always run a TFT monitor at it's native resolution. In the case of a 15" monitor it is always 1024x768.

    The interpolation required to run non native resolutions is dreadful on most TFT's, especially cheap 15" ones. The one exception I've seen is my own monitor which runs non-native resolution's very well, but I almost always use it at the native 1680x1050 anyway


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  • #7
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,162 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    have a 1600x1200 tft here, and it interpolates very well. I could imagine on smaller screens it would look awful as there just isn't the pixels to represent odd resolutions well. Couldn't go back to crt anymore, have 2 21" crt's in the office, and suffer through them :)


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