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GeForce FX5500 won’t display 1680 X 1050

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As mentioned briefly in a previous post (http://www.computer-aid.com.au/blog/2008/09/14/geforce-7300gt-sometimes-blanks-for-2-seconds/), I had installed an AGP Galaxy GeForce FX5500 into my PC, but had a few problems with it.

I thought I’d give a few more details, and explain how I fixed it (by coincidence, the solution is the same as the 7300GT problem from my previous post).

Anyway, after installing the video card, I could only get the screen resolution to go as high as 1440 X 900.

If I tried 1680 X 1050, then I’d get something like a virtual 1680X1050 on a smaller 1280 X 1024 display. I could scroll around the “larger” display, but the monitor would not display the native resolution.

I tried all of the monitors OSD settings, but nothing that really worked.

None of the Nvidia display settings (XP control panel) worked either

It seems the DVI output for the FX5500 is rather limited… apparently, the max resolution is something like 1600 X 1200 (but the analog VGA output can go up to 2049 X 1536

So I connect the analogue VGA cable, and the card can now display 1680 X 1050

Grrr.

geforce 7300gt sometimes blanks for 2 seconds

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I haven’t been having much luck with video cards this year.

I purchased an inno Nvidia GeForce 7300GT a few months ago. And it worked fine.

Recently, I installed an intensive 3d screensaver (hyperspace from http://www.reallyslick.com/).

While it was running, I noticed that approx. every minute, My 22″ LCD display (1680 X 1050) would just go blank, for about 1 or 2 seconds, and than the screensaver would continue as if nothing happened.

My wife also installed “MyVirtualHome”, and that also caused the same problem (but even more frequently)

I figured: its either the video card about to fail, or the monitor about to fail.

To eliminate the video card, I tried another one (a GeForce 5500), but it seemed to struggle to display 1680 X 1050 (but 1440 X 900 worked just fine).

After some digging, I found a mention about some video cards not working well at high resolutions while using the DVI connection.

So I switched over to the (inferior) analog cable, and hey, problem fixed.

Now I need to find a well-shielded VGA cable, as the analogue signal is slightly “shaky”.