Hi, My windows 7 gives me wrong options to choose my monitor resolution. Is there any way to instruct windows 7 to use an specific resolution that is not part of its “Screen Resolution” options? Thank you,

Which Monitor do you use? Have you install the inf Driver which contains the resoltion information for your Monitor?"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Windows shows PnP Monitor. When I try to update to the folder contains the .inf file, it says no update is required. But I don't think this relates to the monitore driver

sure. Without the inf Windows doesn't know the resolution. Have you also installed the latest graphic card driver? How to you connect the Monitor (HDMI, DVI, D-Sub)?"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Hi, Based on my research, the resolution you can use depends on the resolutions your monitor supports: Change your screen resolution To make your monitor work properly, as Andre said, try to install the latest graphic card driver to check the result. Alex ZhaoPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I used QuickResXP to be able to choose a correct resolution. The resolution selections offered by windown are completely wrong. I already installed the latest NVidia driver and it didn't help. Still it is unknown: Where in registery the latest selected resolution for a specific monitor is saved by windows? This is an undocumented mystery you can't find in Google!!!! Why the resolution selection options offered by windowns is completely off but QuickResXP can find the right rosultion?

When your in the display resolution screen, does clicking on the "detect" button change anything, sometimes my laptop wont detect an external display properly and show it as standard VGA display and wont give me all the resolutions possible. clicking on detect fixes it for me.

use this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487330.aspx to add the resolution settings"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

>>When your in the display resolution screen, does clicking on the "detect" button change anything, No

Hi, My windows 7 gives me wrong options to choose my monitor resolution. Is there any way to instruct windows 7 to use an specific resolution that is not part of its “Screen Resolution” options? Thank you, What is the exact make, model, and series of your monitor? What is the exact make, model, and series of your video card/chip? How is the monitor connected to the video? Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ”

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487330.aspx check my link Edit the monitor INF with 128 byte blocks of hex EDID override data from VESA specs? You can't be serious.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487330.aspx check my link Edit the monitor INF with 128 byte blocks of hex EDID override data from VESA specs? Then generate a signed Catalog File? You can't be serious.

Since Max_2010 doesn't want to provide any information to aid in resolving his/her situation I think this is just one of those TROLL posts. People that realy want help will respond to requests for more information instead of trying to bluff their way through a fictious problem.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Rick, I wouldn’t consider this as a TROLL post and this is definitely not a fictitious problem. What would be the benefit and why would I waste time? I am not an expert, but I have enough knowledge to try reinstalling the driver or try to create a custom resolution using the NVidia driver software. Also I have downloaded the monitor inf files. Many similar techniques didn’t work. I found QuickResXP as a workaround to eliminate the wrong resolution and aspect ratio annoyance. My monitor works fine now. However, I like to get to the bottom and root cause to learn something new. Maybe I should have marked QuickResXP as the answer and started a new question to prevent confusion. There are details that I think they distract more than help, but here are the details you asked: My PC is a Dell Latitude D830. The Monitor is Acer X223w. We have many of the same laptops and monitor model in the company. The all work together well. Dell support replaced my laptop’s motherboard with a new one. So it is the same windows installation on a replacement motherboard. Since MB replacement, this setup works with all Monitors, except the ones that windows had been connected to. All monitors that had been connected to windows before MB replacement now have wrong aspect ratio. The replacement MB has the identical chipset. It looks like windows has the monitor settings stored somewhere. Usually it stores these types of information in the registry. Detect monitor button does not solve the issue. I need to clean the old monitor record and ... That is why I am so desperate to know where the monitor settings are stored? If this is a wrong or irrelevant question, please let me know. Thank you everyone for help and sorry for the confusion.

There are at least eight different keys in the registry for my Acer AL2216W with some of the keys having more than one entry for the model number. Unfortunately there is not a single area in the registry where the info is written. I just searched for AL2216W.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

To sum up: Many monitors/projectors have been plugged to my laptop. Windows remembers the last selected settings for *most* of those monitors. I can’t list them. Windows 7 mysteriously tracks monitors that had been plugged to PC and remember some settings (at least the last selected resolution) There is no well-known or documented way to list/view the mentioned mysterious monitor tracking settings or list The mysterious windows monitor tracking works well, but if it gets confused, too bad, windows needs to be reinstalled. Obvious techniques such as re-install the monitor or graphic card driver DOES NOT HELP. It would be a great idea for windows 8 (or sysinternals or 3^rd party tools) to add a feature to allow users list, modify or delete the stored setting for the “mysterious windows monitor tracking”. Please consider this is different than plugged monitor settings Hope someone from the windows team read this! Let’s keep this post “unanswered”