Spec - Windows Xp32 Home Edition Service Pack 3 Geforce 7600GT Graphics Card Hanton H-320WDB 19 inch LCD 500 Watt FSP Blue Storm Power supply Ok I say not the usual problem as I am almost certain it is not a outdated or broken Driver as I have spent a good deal many hours playing around with drivers, mostly in this process: Uninstall Drivers Rebot and Enter Safe Mode Use Driver Sweeper to Remove anything that may have been left behind by the driver Reboot Again, but this time Enter normal winodows I tried using several different versions of the drivers which included the Orginal Drivers which came with my Graphics Card, The most recent 182.50 Drivers, and 181.22 as I heard somewhere that the 182 series have some issues. I tried downloading the 182.50 several times to ensure it was not just a corrupt download, however each time I had the same issue. I cannot set my screen Above 640x480, I tried using two different monitors and i had the issue on both, The second monitor used is a 4 or 5 year old 15 inch LCD which ive been using until just yesterday when i attempted to use my new monitor, and in order to be safe, reinstall all the Drivers.. which is were the limit of 640x480 came, however since then ive spent a good deal of hours trying to get it working, with no results, tried plugging everything in again, changed from VGA to a DVI and Even of Course the Drivers. To me this is extremely odd as I do not believe it to be a monitor fault, as both monitors suffer from the same issue, but if the graphics card is faulty, why did it only happen when i tried to re-install the drivers. The PC is custom built and after the initial setup, never had any major issues with drivers such as this. Hope this all makes sense, and Thank you very much for any support you may provide.
I can see there's no monitor "driver" for your monitor at Hanton's website. Actually, there isn't any driver to download at all. How do you connect your graphics card to the monitor? VGA or DVI-D? The latter is preferable. Also, you might want to get an earlier driver. There's hardly any fix for 7-series graphics cards in recent drivers.
By Drivers I meant for my Graphics Card, as my monitor is a Plug and Play and as far as i know, should not need a driver. I tried using the Drivers that came with my Graphics Card, the drivers are much older than the 182 fixes, I believe they are from 06 or 07 I am currently using a VGA connection, however did try the DVI connection earlier, but was unable to receive a signal I used a Duel sided Adapter, not sure of the actual name, just the adapter that seems to come with most graphics card, to allow for VGA and DVI.
Well, there are often monitor "drivers" (actually, text files containing information about refresh rate, resolution etc.), but especially with LCD monitors they are becoming less and less necessary. Did you try connecting DVI with a special DVI cable? DVI can transport both digital (DVI-D) and analog signals (DVI-A). The latter part is what that adapter of your's converts to the usual VGA/DSUB15 connector. To get the digital signal you should remove that adapter and also connect the cable to your monitor's DVI input. If you *did* try all that and you didn't get a signal there just might be a problem with your monitor. Also, did using older drivers for your graphics card have any effect?
Unfortunately I only seem to have a VGA cable, the Monitor did not come with one. my Graphics Card only allows for DVI-I, so my VGA cable will only work if I use an VGa to DVI Adapter. I have never used DVI before and have had no issues with it, i have never been force to use a 640x480 resolution. Is it safe to assume that the Issue does in fact lay within the fact that I am using a VGA cable? Thank you for your help so far
First, DVI-I means that the connector outputs both digital and analog signals, so that's a good thing. To use DVI you only need to get a DVI signal cable, instead of the VGA cable you're using now. Second, other than image quality, using DVI over VGA should not really make any difference. Especially not regarding resolution. Might I inquire as to the exact make and model of your graphics card? I know you wrote it is a Geforce 7600GT, but if possible I'd like more details than that. Last but not least, I'm a bit slow to reply. The reason for this is that I'm actually at work right now.
no problem, had figured as much, glad you are willing to help even during work hours My Exact Model and details are as follows: PNY Technologies Geforce 7600GT 256mb DDR3 PCI Express DVI-I x2 HDTV-out 128bit dual RAMDACs 400mhz Dx9 support I bought it from PC World in early 07, wether or not it means anything Ok just so i can cross this off my list of possible issues so as far as my VGA connection goes, its not a real problem,and it is more likely to lay somewhere else? Additionally you asked earlier what happens when i install the drivers for the graphics card which came in the box, well windows loads in 800x600 but when i attempt to change the res it drops back down to the 600x400 basic level. Thank you so much for your continued help
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Sorry for not getting back to you before now, but at times I actually have to work at work. Anyway, back to your problem. Could you please check if Device Manager lists problems with any of your hardware, specifically your graphics card? If you don't know how to open Device Manager then this should help: Open Control Panel, then select System (switch to Classic View if necessary). In the System dialog, select the Hardware tab, then click the Device Manager button. In Device Manager check if any node of the tree is expanded and shows either a yellow question mark, a yellow warning sign or a red error sign. Specifically, check if everything is in order under Display Adapters and if it lists "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT" or a similar string. If it reads more like "Standard VGA Adapter" or similar. If you have the latter then Windows cannot correctly detect your hardware and I would point the finger at that "driver sweeper" you have used. Try right-clicking on that entry under Display Adapters and choose Uninstall. Preferably you could do this from Safe Mode with VGA (you can get a list of boot options by pressing F8 right when Windows is about to boot). If all else fails you could try to physically remove your graphics card, start Windows (yes, without a graphics card) and do a hard power-off, then reinsert the graphics card for Windows to properly detect it again. This last part is strictly a last resort, and I personally have only tried it with PCI cards by temporarily moving them to another PCI slot. If your motherboard has two PCIe x16 slots then you could try temporarily moving the graphics card to the other slot instead of trying to boot completely without graphics. Let me know how you get along.
Ok, after several safe mode installs/ uninstalls and changing the graphics card slot, as i have a PCI-E board to be exact it is a Asus Croshair. I still have no results. At current if i am to check the device manager it shows everything as working. However in the Display properties - settings pane, the one accessed from the desktop with a right click, I can see PnP monitor on Nvidia 7600GT, however when i installed my orginal drivers that came with my graphics card i was able to see some model info of the screen, i believe it was a shortened version for the model, make and type of monitor. On every installation I followed the delete and re-install in safe mode, however i have also tried outside of safe mode with no results. If i load into windows without any drivers, it in fact loads me into a 800x600 res which becomes the new min level i can set my res 2 , instead of the 600x400 i have been getting with drivers, also with each fresh install of a driver from safe mode, it sets itself to the 800x600 res until i attempt to change it to a different setting. Sorry if this is all a bit unclear but i am very tired Also ive settled with the most current drivers more Nvidia atm, as they were the last ones i tried To add If i attempt to change the settings to 1400x900 is acts as if it is allowing me, the screen goes black, and a message pops up asking me if i want to keep the changes, yet there are non.
Some additional info. Last night while playing WoW (World of Warcraft) my graphics card fell into an infinite loop and force a system restart, apparently this is a known issue and could mean my graphics card is faulty. Ive had these lock ups with WoW before, but without the Blue screen message, usualy i gain control over the system after a a few minutes. Currently there appears to be no fix, but i dont even know how relevant this is, however i dob elieve that this could suggest a faulty graphics card as ive had these lockups on earlier drivers. However this still does not explain why i cannot set my Resolution above 600x400. I am able to set the resolution all the way up to my full monitors capacity (1400x900) in WoW with no issues. Not tried in other games as i had assumed it would cause a system crash if you forced a monitor to go beyond its windows set res. Hope the last two messages were understandable The Blue screen message I received contained the following information: NV4_DISP The device fell into a Infinite Loop and forced the system to shut down (or something like that) The message also said the issue is due to either A. Drivers or B. The actual Card
if the card only crashes on WOW then it isnt the cards fault but the game could try testing it on other games does it do the same ???
It has been known to lock up on several other games, but not very often, however the main issue i have is the issue with my 600x400 res issue, were I cannot set it above that res, even though i am 100% sure my drivers are both installed correctly and up to date, i have also tried older drivers, however i mentioned the infinite loop issue as i seem to be a problem some 7 series cards have, was wondering it it could be connected to my resolution problem, as at the moment i am stuck using a 600 by 400 configuration which i cannot change. One game i can remember the issue also occurring in a way of note is in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 However I have never seen the Blue screen message up until this point, but the games do often lockup and cause a system restart. And thank you 2 anyone who has replied here, and thank you for your future posts
Just wanted to tell you, that I haven't given up on you. I've just not had the time to think of other things for you to try. Frankly, I'm a bit baffled. And I bet, in the end it's one of these "oh, of course" issues. By the way, if you say that display properties show "Plug and Play monitor on GeForce 7600 GT", then evidently Windows is recognizing the graphics card correctly. I just can't shake the feeling, that that driver cleaner has been cleaning a bit too much. One thing I'd do personally would be to make an image of my current Windows partition, wipe it and install a fresh copy of Windows. If the graphics card works correctly I'd know that some Windows settings (most probably in the registry) are botched. I would then either restore my previous installation and try to figure out what went wrong or just use the new installation with everything that entails. It's also possible to export the settings for the graphics card from the new installation's registry and use them in the old one, but that *really* requires a lot of technical knowledge. It's not something I'd recommed for the typical Windows user. Anyway, I'll get back to you when I've got some new ideas.
Hi, if you haven't got this sorted out, I'm would suspect you might not be able to fix your problem, I would have to assume that you have buggered the registry completely and I think it's not allowing other than the default Windows resolution of 640x480 to be set... You'd be better of backing up everything you need and completely format the c: drive and re-installing everything... I'm sorry if this doesn't help but I had a similar problem last year with my Geforce 7300GT when I tried installing to an updated drivers set... I was trying to update from an 2000 version driver to an XP version driver, however for some strange reason when rebooting after installing, the pc crashed and after that I could not install or un-install graphics drivers... To cut the story short, after hours of rebooting into safe mode and un-install tries, strangely enough I was able to completely un-install the current drivers, re-instated the Windows default graphics drivers and re-installed the latest graphics drivers, BUT, after installing the new graphics drivers, Windows became very sluggish and applications were very temper-mental which also included crashing as times... So I ended up re-installing Windows XP from scratch, but before I did that I slipstreamed SP3 into XP CD and integrated the latest graphics drivers and other device drivers into the new XP CD and finally got my pc back in business... after that, my pc ran like a new pc and very smoothly... Again... I'm sorry for your unfortunate experience... Hope you get it all working again with the result of formatting and re-installing Windows XP...
Just a thought, but have you tried setting a custom resolution in the Nvidia control panel? There is an option along the left hand side which says "Manage custom resolutions" and it might be worth trying setting the default resolution of your monitor as a custom res. I have had similar problems with an ATI graphics card to the ones that you are describing which turned out to be that there were artificial limits set on some of the output resolutions.
Thank you for all your help, and sorry for the delayed reply.. Non of the mentioned possible solutions have worked, however i do believe that re-installing windows is probably best as my pc has been behaving increasingly strange and unpredictable in the past few months, and this problem does ot seem to be fixable, i will not be re-installing windows for another week or two, as i must first back everything up, so if you read across this thread or think you know a solution let meknow I have a question or two more to ask. First of all, I only have a OEM version of windows, does it have a one install only restriction? Secondly I have used things such as CCCleaner and other registry cleaning tools, could they possibly be culprits, i would like to know as to avoid future mistakes Thank you for all your help so far
You should be fine with the reinstall. If it is Vista you may have to ring up Microsoft but in my experience they are fine. The only time I have had an activation problem I hadn't actually changed anything, it was just out of the blue. I have changed major hardware (pretty much everything from when I first got Vista save the CPU and a hard drive), reinstalled etc and it has been absolutely fine.
