How Do I Raise My Dual-screen Resolution???

So I use my laptop with a dual-monitor setup. The secondary monitor is a widescreen 19 inch, high quality flat panel monitor from hanns-g which used to be used a my main monitor for my desktop (and would run at 1680 x 1050 just fine). I haven't been able to raise the resolution back to that. The display screen only goes up to 1440 x 900. Is there any way to fix this or raise it higher? My laptop screen runs at 1680 x 1050. Thanks for the help.

 

Are you using the Windows display settings to change your resolution or the NView control panel? If I recall correctly, the NView panel should allow you to force a custom resolution. Unfortunately, I've been relegated to ATI graphics for a while now, so I don't know for sure .

 

is there a max combined resolution a single link graphics card can output? try lowering your laptop to say 800x600 then see if you can raise the externals up to its full resolution...im just curious.

 

i found the control panel 4 nvidia and it too only allows me to raise it to 1440x900, but there is no max resolution per single graphics card in this instance, just a max 4 both

 

I dont know if it will let you honstly.. try new drivers. Are you useing HDMI? What video Card do you have?

 

I'll have to echo Steve here...try updating your drivers (go into device manager, right-click on the plug-and-play monitor, and click on update driver). It could just be that Windows didn't identify the monitor correctly.

 

Id go with nizzy .. lower the res on your laptop screen and see if it output higher on tv screen.