Acer monitor and intel 945GM help PLEASE, will pay!

[halperin]

Still having problems with getting this acer AL2223w monitor to display in its highest resolution(1680x1050). I have a dellE1405 with graphics, intel 945GM chipset.

I have installed all my latest video drivers, there are none for the monitor. ive been working for 2 days on this. today i unplugedd and took back to best buy where i didnt end up returning it. so i brought it back home, plugged it in and reattached it, not sure if i tried to reinstall the video driver for the 100th time, but shortly after i re attached it it said windows has detected ur device, restart for changes to take effect, when i restarted i could put it on the max resolution, and then could select even higher ones which it doesn't support. I shut down the comp, and when i restarted it was back where it was, stuck on 2 resolutions 800x600 and 1024x786 ;/


and now when i unlug it, plug it back it and reattached it
i can select a really high resolution like 1900x1200, then i apply it and when i drag my mouse onto the external monitor it says in like 800x600 resolution, but lets me like scroll around, like it becomes a huge desktop at 800x600 and i have to scroll around to see everything lol.... any 1 know whats wrong? 50$ to whoever fixes it lol [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[erbbysam]

ummm the intel 945GM is built into the motherboard I think and may not support larger resolutions, go to a computer store, and if you have an extra PCI card slot in your computer, but a video card... even this one would work:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121080

[halperin]

ive checked the 945gm supports the 1680x1050 that i need and even higher resolutions.

[erbbysam]

http://www.intel.com/support/graphic...945gm/#anchor1
for drivers, if you haven't updated them already through intel
oooo this is a laptop... did a bit more research,
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...g-problem.html
good luck...looks like this is a know problem that needs to be addressed.