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    M570RU: Maximum external monitor resolution?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by sbussinger, Nov 11, 2009.

  1. sbussinger

    sbussinger Notebook Guru

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    I've got an M570RU laptop I've been running with Windows 7 for a while now and it's been great. The laptop has the 1680x1050 resolution LCD in it. I had an external LCD monitor attached to it that also ran at 1680x1050 and life was good.

    I just changed the monitor out and put in a new HP L2105tm touchscreen monitor running at 1920x1080 (great monitor and very reasonable price BTW) and now I'm having all sorts of video corruption issues when running Visual Studio on the attached monitor.

    I was wondering if there was some sort of maximum resolution the laptop (hardware or drivers) supported on the external monitor? It doesn't seem like a stretch to run this monitor, but I though I'd ask. Thanks!
     
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    What video card do you have?
     
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    sbussinger Notebook Guru

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    Whoops, forgot to mention that! I have the GeForce 8700M GT video card that came with it.
     
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    From Nvidia's website on technical specification of the 8700M:

    Advanced Display Functionality

    * Dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600
    * Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
    * Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i/1080p resolution
    * NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
    * 10-bit display processing

    You should be fine I think.
     
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    sbussinger Notebook Guru

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    Thanks Blacky! I'm assuming those number are per-display since the two monitors I had combined exceeded those numbers and worked OK. It's either got to be a Visual Studio issue or a driver issue then (and my money's on a driver issue).

    I'm running NVidia 186.61 right now. I'm off to laptopvideo2go.com and see what's new. I hate the huge number of options for NVidia drivers though -- why can't they just have one series of drivers? I can never remember the difference between the 170's, 180's, and the 190's drivers and then the difference between 191 and 195, etc.. All of which are being continually updated. :confused:
     
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    No problem. Yeap, those numbers should be per display.

    Nvidia's driver support is great, just always try to have the latest version, that's all.

    I am currently using the beta 195.39 -> awesome drivers.
     
    Blacky, Nov 11, 2009
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