How to reset screen resolution on vista

This works very well, but rather than removing pin 12, I simply covered it with a small piece of sandwich-bag plastic! ATI's Catalyst Now, I can use x Will this work if the CRT is connected to my graphics card via dvi to vga?

George: it sure will. A DVI-I port found on most video cards actually is capable of outputting both a "real" digital DVI signal and a legacy VGA signal; the little adapter only works if the video card puts an analog signal through it which is identical to that on a regular VGA connector.

I think it involves two pins No need, I removed the pin and it works. Thank you! Download and install Entech Monitor Asset Manager. Edit Timing Values The select radio button for Close PED. 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! Thanks so much for this tip! Karthikeyan A. Thanks for this wonderful information! When I switch KVM to laptop, the display used to go off frequently accompanied with annoying sound, resolution warning, et.

Now the problems are gone! Charleston Sityar. This helped me a lot. The maximum resolution that you can select with the slider will depend on your video card and display's graphical capabilities. The greater the resolution you select the more fine the display will become. If you want to make the Vista environment more legible everything bigger then use the slider to select a lower resolution than your current one. After dragging the slider to your required resolution click on the Apply button.

Windows Vista will then change the resolution and prompt you if you want to keep that specific resolution. Here are typical resolutions for some popular screen sizes:. When you set your monitor to a screen resolution that it can't support, the screen will go black for a few seconds while the monitor reverts back to the original resolution.

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Notes: When you change the screen resolution, it affects all users who log on to the computer. Need more help? Join the discussion. 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.