Connecting HEL80 to Full HD Monitor

Hey

I'm wondering if I can run into any problems trying to connect my HEL80 to a Samsung XL2370 monitor, which has a 1920x1080 native resolution, and no rgb d-sub input. As most of you know HEL80 has a Geforce Go 7600 graphics card and only d-sub video output - I know there are d-sub to dvi adapters, so I sholdn't have any problems actually connecting these two, but I'm worried the Go 7600 might not be able to support full hd resolution over rgb cable. Could anyone help me with this?

 

The 7600 is a pretty decent GPU, and will be able to handle the resolution just fine.

 

Slightly restating the original question:

1. Can anyone out there confirm success driving an external monitor at 1920x1080 or better on a Compal HEL80 with nVidia Geforce Go7600 256MB card and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit?

2. If so, what cable connections are you using to make it work?

3. What drivers did you need to use?

The following excerpt is what prompts my questions.
Thanks in advance for your help.

The nVidia forum entry below discusses a problem getting Windows 7 64-bit to allow the proper external monitor resolution. The solution seemed to require using a DVI cable (and perhaps a VGA or S-Video to DVI adapter?).
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http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t86527.html

"...I had exactly the same problem on my 280gtx, the cause seems to be MS not nVidia, I had my LCD connected via a VGA cable and prior to windows 7 (so xp/ vista) I could get a 1920x1200 res no problem.

Now I can only get 1600x1200, and my monitor is not detected correctly. If I manually install drivers for the monitor the native res (1920x1200) shows, but windows will not allow me to change to a higher resolution.

Searching through the registry I found a section that looks like windows restricts the resolution (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\GraphicsDrivers\AdditionalModeLists\) by type of output. I could not find a section listed as VGA to add the native resolution.

There was a DVI section that listed my native resolution, and when I switched to a DVI cable, suddenly my monitor was detected correctly and my Native resolution was allowed, so now i am running at 1920x1200.

Not sure if there is a display port section in the above registry key (if there is you could try adding the keys to enable the higher res for it), or if MS just do not correctly support display port correctly yet.

Hopefully there will be an MS patch to resolve this some time. Or I will have to go an buy a DVI switcher box. ..."
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