School PC wrong resolution! Help!

[iamdarkyoshi]

I have this LOVELY piece of shit to deal with in my classroom.

 

 

I cannot set the monitor to 1600x900 because the PC is dumb. It does not list like most of the supported resolutions for this panel. Monitor is connected via DVI, VGA listed even less resolutions.

 

 

I do not have admin rights to this PC. Any ideas?

[Castdeath97]

I would try to send to a history museum first!

 

Don't you have PC support?

[iamdarkyoshi]

I would try to send to a history museum first!

 

Don't you have PC support?

I am just a student at the high school, completing A+ assignments. The PC next to me had this monitor, but only 1GB of ram. So I moved the monitor to this one (this is the only widescreen monitor in the whole room) and the old 4:3 to the 1GB pc. the 1GB PC has a GPU in it, this one does not. There is an empty slot where one was though.

[noisebomb44]

BTW, install win 10, or linux

It will make your computer run slightely less crap

[minibois]

I would say reinstall the video drivers, but if you don't have admin access, I don't know what to do

[iamdarkyoshi]

BTW, install win 10, or linux

It will make your computer run slightely less crap

Or tell the IT crew to get something slightly less historic.

[baxtmann]

it wont let you move the screen resolution to the highest resolution? then try restarting PC and unplugging and pluging that monitor in again.

[iamdarkyoshi]

it wont let you move the screen resolution to the highest resolution? then try restarting PC and unplugging and pluging that monitor in again.

Has been done already.

[German_John]

Is Windows up to date? I remember Win7 haveing like 4 resolutions to pick from before I installed all those 200 updates since launch

[Mikensan]

It is the drivers for the monitor, it can't detect the type of monitor and isn't listing the resolutions based on the correct aspect ratios. If you can change it from "generic pnp monitor" to something else to play around with aspect ratios, that is your best bet.

 

Must be an old ass monitor if it's not talking back to the PC over the DVI cable.

 

If you want admin rights you could use something like Kon-boot to get in without changing any passwords. I'd advise screwing around too much with a school PC, probably easier to just call their IT dept.

 

Or change the resolution to 1400x1050, and then screw around with the monitor settings to compress the image or change the scaling so it looks right. Depends on how determined you are.

[Tsuki]

there isnt really much you can do honestly. you dont have privaledges.  talk to your schools system admin.

[iamdarkyoshi]

there isnt really much you can do honestly. you dont have privaledges. talk to your schools system admin.

I talked to her and she said she would be replacing the old thing. THANK FUCK lol

[Dr_Nooberious]

This is probably late, but it sounds like that you simply need a monitor driver to get better resolution.

 

Some monitors don't like the driver windows installs automatically and need a specific driver to work.

 

Good luck.