TLDR; Monitor won't let me set resolution to 1440x900 when it's 100% a 1440x900 monitor. Plugged into a VGA to DVI converter. Other monitors work fine with adapter and my gpu.
Whenever I switch to my monitors native resolution of 1440x900 it turns black and makes a screeching sound. I've tried forcing a custom resolution through AMDs additional settings, but it tells my my monitor is incompatible with this resolution. I know this to be false since I've had this monitor for years displaying it at that resolution.
The problem started when I realised my refresh rate was set to 60hz, when it's a 75hz monitor. It's usually on 75, has been for years...but I checked my settings and something caused it to default set back to 60, and wouldn't allow me to put it on 75hz. I noticed my monitor had also changed names...From samsung 943etc to Lontium HDMI (it's plugged into a dvi port through a vga adapter) I thought maybe it was driver issues, so I uninstalled my graphics drivers, tried to install the new ones...had an error (related to windows not being updated) I updated to windows 10, installed the new drivers. Same issue. Forced the refresh rate to 75 in AMDs additional settings, and that was that. Resolved the issue for a while.
The issue was resolved until last night, when I tried to play a game super sampled to 2k (higher resolution in this game gives a broader view, done this a million times no poroblem) and my monitor went black. When it came back on, my monitor had a message overlay saying "not optimum resolution, recommended 1440x900" I set it to 1440x900, and the same message appeared. The resolution was set to 1440x900 but looked square on my screen. I restored back to windows 7, tried to set the resolution to 1440x900 and now it just goes to a black screen. I made sure all my drivers are clean etc. Got the right monitor driver installed too, shows up in the device manager as the right one, but still recognised as a lontium hdmi in AMDs settings and my resolution adjusting settings. So now I'm stuck with my monitor forced to display 1280 x 1024. which looks very stretched and weird on this monitor.
I've tried different vga cables into the adapter and same problem. I've replaced my monitor with a smaller one, setting the native resolution is fine on that. No issues and is identified as the right monitor. The only thing I can imagine that happened is, my monitor tried to display 2k downscaled at 75hz and it caused it to fry something? I'm clueless.
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Whenever I switch to my monitors native resolution of 1440x900 it turns black and makes a screeching sound. I've tried forcing a custom resolution through AMDs additional settings, but it tells my my monitor is incompatible with this resolution. I know this to be false since I've had this monitor for years displaying it at that resolution.
The problem started when I realised my refresh rate was set to 60hz, when it's a 75hz monitor. It's usually on 75, has been for years...but I checked my settings and something caused it to default set back to 60, and wouldn't allow me to put it on 75hz. I noticed my monitor had also changed names...From samsung 943etc to Lontium HDMI (it's plugged into a dvi port through a vga adapter) I thought maybe it was driver issues, so I uninstalled my graphics drivers, tried to install the new ones...had an error (related to windows not being updated) I updated to windows 10, installed the new drivers. Same issue. Forced the refresh rate to 75 in AMDs additional settings, and that was that. Resolved the issue for a while.
The issue was resolved until last night, when I tried to play a game super sampled to 2k (higher resolution in this game gives a broader view, done this a million times no poroblem) and my monitor went black. When it came back on, my monitor had a message overlay saying "not optimum resolution, recommended 1440x900" I set it to 1440x900, and the same message appeared. The resolution was set to 1440x900 but looked square on my screen. I restored back to windows 7, tried to set the resolution to 1440x900 and now it just goes to a black screen. I made sure all my drivers are clean etc. Got the right monitor driver installed too, shows up in the device manager as the right one, but still recognised as a lontium hdmi in AMDs settings and my resolution adjusting settings. So now I'm stuck with my monitor forced to display 1280 x 1024. which looks very stretched and weird on this monitor.
I've tried different vga cables into the adapter and same problem. I've replaced my monitor with a smaller one, setting the native resolution is fine on that. No issues and is identified as the right monitor. The only thing I can imagine that happened is, my monitor tried to display 2k downscaled at 75hz and it caused it to fry something? I'm clueless.
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
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