windows xp - Is there a way to find the native resolution of an LCD monitor (without looking up the specs)?

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2014-07
  • Clay Nichols

    Is there any way to detect/default to the native resolution for an LCD monitor (on Windows XP)?

    (this is an older monitor and I haven't found the documentation on it)

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  • phoebus

    Usually a properly configured graphics card won't allow you (by default, anyway) to set a resolution higher than the maximum for the monitor, assuming that it can detect it.

    Otherwise, just keep jacking up the res until you find one (of the appropriate aspect ratio) that doesn't work. You're unlikely to damage an LCD simply by briefly switching to an out-of-bounds res.

  • harrymc

    As long as you have the correct drivers installed, the 'native' resolution of an LCD is the same as its maximum resolution.

  • Scoregraphic

    Maybe you could try Speccy. This is a great system information tool. I don't know if it tells you also possible resolutions (not installed at work).


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  • SLaks

    I have four 20" Planar 2010M LCD monitors with a maximum resolution of 1600 x 1200 connected to two nVidia video cards (8600 GT and 7600 GS). I'm running Windows Server 2003 x86.

    Recently, two of the monitors have started mis-reporting their maximum resolution as 1280 x 1024. When this first happened, I used nVidia's Custom Resolutions feature to force the monitors back to 1600 x 1200. Yesterday, however, I upgraded nVidia's video card driver, and ever since, I cannot get the DVI one back to 1600 x 1200. When I add the custom resolution in nVidia's control panel, if I set either the width or the height to even a single pixel more than 1280 x 1024, nothing changes when I click Test (the monitor doesn't even flash black, although after 15 seconds, it flashes black and doesn't change). After adding

    Does anyone know what the problem is?

    Is there anything I can do about it?


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  • Brettski

    Have you checked with the monitor manufacturer to see if they have any drivers/ini's for the monitors. If they are available, it will help your video card identify them correctly.