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Greetings everybody

This is one very annoying problem that has been bothering me for a long time. It seems from time to time that the "hide modes this monitor can't display" box is grayed out for no reason at all and sometimes its available; the unsupported screen resolution modes and refresh rates are available (which I don't like) because my games, especially FS9 automatically adjust to unsupported resolutions and the screen goes blank; saying the monitor is out of frequency, then resets.

Sometimes when I restart my computer, the check box is grayed out. This is a problem because anytime I update my ATI Radeon x1950 Pro graphics card, my resolution resets to a really low value, like 1080x1050 or 800x600 and I have to pan around my desktop instead and change it back. Everytime this happens, I change my resolution back to 1680x1050. Is there anyway to make the "hide modes this monitor can't display" box available permanently? I have a Westinghouse 22 inch LCD monitor coupled with an ATI x1950 Pro graphics card.

Does this problem stem from my monitor or graphics card?

Thanks for your help

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monitor i would say... dunno how you can fix it though :(

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Maybe see if you can get drivers for your monitor - sometimes if the PC sees the monitor as a play and play generic monitor it doesnt know what modes its capable of, thus it cant hide those modes it is not capable of cos it dont damn well know.

I had similar issues on that card with my Samsung CRT but an install of the drivers feeds Windows all the monitor's info.


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