new hd monitor tv asking can't set native 1600x900 resolution ???

foxyuk

JasX wrote: »

do you know the model of your dell, I've seen nothing to suggest either way its non-upgradable?!?

System Dimension 3000Date:30/03/2005

opened the back of the desktop base .... which one is the graphics card????

poppy10_2

foxyuk wrote: »

System Dimension 3000Date:30/03/2005

Yup, I was right - it does not have an AGP slot to add a graphics card
Specs:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/dim3000/en/SM/specs.htm#wp1075776

opened the back of the desktop base .... which one is the graphics card????

You don't have a graphics card, that's the point. The graphics in your system are integrated into the motherboard's chipset, there is no separate graphics card and no way of adding a one, unless you went for an ancient PCI-interface graphics card like this one - tbh you'd be much better off just putting that money towards a new computer, your Dimension 3000 is going to be far too weak to play any high-definition content on your fancy new HDTV.

aliEnRIK

As long as its a spare PCI slot then you can get one

JasX

aliEnRIK wrote: »

As long as its a spare PCI slot then you can get one

yes, but its so old its tenuous if its worth spending any money on at all

How I'd proceed

1-look for a very cheap PCI card on ebay say (not it must be PCI, not AGP, not PCIe noe PCIexpress)

eg http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ATI-Rage-128-VR-128VR-32-MB-PCI-3D-Video-Graphics-Card_W0QQitemZ300364741305QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW?hash=item45ef223ab9

2-play with the monitor/screen driver a bit more (NOT graphics driver you've already done that), its either your graphics card driver OR your display/screen driver thats telling windows your monitor is limited resolution... there is a setting in XP that limits your options to what it *thinks* the monitor is capable of and definitely a tickbox override for it.

I'd make sure I've tried 2 first -if you get a graphics card and it was your display/screen driver limiting things all along you'll quite possibly still be in the same place after you've got a graphics card....

Toxteth_OGrady

Try Power Strip

:cool:

TOG

foxyuk

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Try Power Strip

:cool:

TOG

tried that and monitor drivers, set ups ... absolutely everything

time to give up???

found this site... so posted......

some of things a bit gobalty goop for me

http://www.jjclements.co.uk/index.php/2007/07/19/intel-gfx-driver-resolution-fix/comment-page-3/#comment-606

JasX

foxyuk wrote: »

tried that and monitor drivers, set ups ... absolutely everything

time to give up???

found this site... so posted......

some of things a bit gobalty goop for me

http://www.jjclements.co.uk/index.php/2007/07/19/intel-gfx-driver-resolution-fix/comment-page-3/#comment-606

yup, getting windows notepad out and pulling the driver apart stands a fairly good chance, you able to find the bit they refer to in one of the driver files? or anything similar?

Make sure you don;t accidentally save it as a .doc (ir if it starts as a ".ini" make sure it doesn;t accidentally become a ".ini.doc")

only had to get down to that level once b4 myself (to remove region protection from a DVD drive driver) did work