Moving from xp to window 7 - nvidia drivers

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winzentween

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hello,
I have an old nvidia geforce 7200 GO gcard in my dell pc (i cannot upgrade or afford a new pc) which has worked perfectly for 5 years on xp sp3.

I now have windows 7 ultimate and the driver no longer works so I installed a new one which claimed to work for win 7.

It does work but I can no longer use my pc on my external monitor on 1920x1080 (though I can on my laptop) via VGA (my only option).

My monitor does support 1080p and ive been running it for years on xp. Also I have lost the CRT screen function in my nvidia control panel so I cannot move the screen as many res. are off.

Currently I cannot find a suitable resolution so please help asap.

most things are too wide and too small while others are too big!!! also the screen won't even reach the edges on most settings and there is nolonger a software move option as mentioned (as there is no manual monitor one either).

Please help asap

Here seems to be the problem but all links are dead
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/652-63-window-monitor-1680x1050-1920x1080-resolution-here
 
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Did you check your refresh settings?
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display\Screen Resolution > Advanced settings > Monitor

Windows Update > Optional Updates > (Check if you have a display related driver option)
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winzentween

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Ok I installed power strip and somehow it activated something in windows 7 which was stopping it seeing my lcd monitors true potential and though i cant get it to run at opt. refresh rate as 60 not 75 seems to be the default I have managed 1080p or 1920x1080 etc. also this was the driver i used but i had to reinstall it three times 179.48_notebook_winvista_win7_32bit_beta
 
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Did you check your refresh settings?
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display\Screen Resolution > Advanced settings > Monitor

Windows Update > Optional Updates > (Check if you have a display related driver option)
 
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moon-seeker

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I had the same problem once before, i did an update to my driver and it worked just fine, i found a blog called data tube i believe his owner is a one good fellow, he uploaded things costs a lot of dollars for free one of them is Driver Robot software i find this program so helpful in installing and updating drivers i hope you find it useful too http://freedatabank.blogspot.com/search/label/Software , Cheers
 
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@moon-seeker Encouraging software piracy is both illegal and EXPLICITLY against the Terms of Use. Remove the post within 16 Minutes or I will be forced to notify the Moderators/Admins. Consider yourself warned.
 
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winzentween

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Hi so thanks for that but it doesnt work or yes it list every possible variant but when you select 1920 x 1080 it gives you 1680 etc. so basically windows 7 reads 1080p as the wrong res. and refuses to run it even though the monitor is stating and use to be 1920x1080 no issues and this is what many other people are reporting online.
 
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winzentween

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nope I tried the monitor on xp again and it works fine...it is windows and that is why 100s of people have posted this this issue across the net since win 7 appeared and even now there are over 3 people on this forum all asking the same and one has my exact same set up.
 
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