New montor, but can't get it to work...

spartan86

Hello, I am new to these forums and I joined because I need some help. I just went out and bought a new Gateway 21" widescreen monitor as a second monitor for my laptop. I am running a Compaq R3275 w/3 ghz P4, Mob. Radeon 9200, 512 MB RAM. I just downloaded the new Omega drivers for my card to hopefully adjust my screen res. to 1680 by 1050. I looked on the new settings and yes, it does show that resolution, but when I hit "identify" it says that my new monitor is #1, and the max res. for it is 1280 by 800! I can't get it to recognize my new moniotr as the #2 monitor. Please help me out on this, I am anxious to get this puppy up and running. Thanks for your help.

bencip19

Hi,

I'm spamming this post pretty much in all the threads where people are having issues dirving external widescreens from their Mobility Radeon card. Sorry if this is against the rules; there are so many threads to sort through for a person who searches, I figure I should put MY answer in as many of the places (and they're all appropriate) as I can.

I was having the same issue with my Mobility Radeon 7500 and Widescreen. I got it to work (with quite a bit of effort), and just wrote up a webpage summary and posted it to my personal website.

I hope it's OK to link; best to get the information (and pictures) off there. All the real credit goes to those who wrote ModTool.

http://www.quickowl.com/Services/Hardware/Mobility Radeon WS/

Thanks!
Ben