I just bought a beautiful Samsung Synchmaster 226 BW monitor that wants to run at 1680X 1050 (60 hz refresh). My admittedly old (3 years) Dell Inspiron 700m Laptop won't let this come up as a valid choice, and all settings that are available look distorted on the new screen. The chip set in the laptop is Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME. Its drivers are current and the software that came with the monitor didn't seem to be able to overcome the problem. We tried to manually put in the configuration using Powerstrip and couldn't get that to work either.
Does anyone have suggestions? Or is this just a sign that my laptop is getting old...If I can't get it to work, I guess I'll buy a monitor that fits one of the preset dimensions (1400 X 1050 or 1600 X 1200) and hope that works.
Thanks for any suggestions, I wish the people at the store had mentioned this as a potential problem with an older computer.
Nancy
Does anyone have suggestions? Or is this just a sign that my laptop is getting old...If I can't get it to work, I guess I'll buy a monitor that fits one of the preset dimensions (1400 X 1050 or 1600 X 1200) and hope that works.
Thanks for any suggestions, I wish the people at the store had mentioned this as a potential problem with an older computer.
Nancy