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    Help with video card problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ystava, Aug 30, 2009.

  1. ystava

    ystava Notebook Enthusiast

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    My wife and I have a couple of Latitude 600m's both seemingly with Radion 9000 video cards.

    Her HD has been on the fritz, and my mother board seems to have been on the fritz recently (not powering on), and seems to have finally died, so I put my HD in her machine and everything - except - the video seems to be working properly.

    Basically the only two display options I have under the video properties are 1024x768 and 800x600... whereas in the HD's native machine, I can go considerably wider.

    Any ideas for how correct this? This HD, with this box seems to be a perfectly reliable machine.
     
    ystava, Aug 30, 2009
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    ktriebol Notebook Geek

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    The first thing I would do is download the latest driver.
     
    ktriebol, Aug 30, 2009
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    ystava Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok... reinstalled driver, and that didn't help. The driver software seems convinced this is only a 1024x768 display running at 60 htz, but I've seen this display run higher resolutions.
     
    ystava, Aug 30, 2009
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    ystava Notebook Enthusiast

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    I feexeed it. One of the computers had XGA, the other SXGA. I swapped out the screens.

    Frankencomputer... but that'll keep me until my new computer arrives in a month.
     
    ystava, Aug 30, 2009
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