Windows 7 Display resolution slider is greyed out?

[Fool Monkey]

Hello Everyone,

I am having a problem with my new windows 7 installation.

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT grapics card will not work at higher resolutions?

The slider is greyed out and stuck at 800 X 600?

I have tried many different nvidia drivers but to no avail.

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Graphics
Monitor
Name SyncMaster on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Current Resolution 800x600 pixels
Work Resolution 800x560 pixels
State enabled, primary
Monitor Width 800
Monitor Height 600
Monitor BPP 16 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 60 Hz
Device \\.\DISPLAY4\Monitor0
GeForce 8800 GT
GPU G92
Device ID 10DE-0611
Revision A2
Subvendor nVidia (10DE)
Current Performance Level Level 1
Current GPU Clock 600 MHz
Current Memory Clock 900 MHz
Current Shader Clock 1500 MHz
Die Size 330 nm?
Transistors 754 M
Release Date 2007
DirectX Support 10.0
DirectX Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL Support 3.0
Bus Interface PCI Express x1
Driver nvlddmkm.sys
Driver version 8.16.11.9062
ForceWare version 190.62
BIOS Version 62.92.42.00.00
ROPs 16
Shaders 112 unified
Memory Type GDDR3
Physical Memory 512 MB
Virtual Memory 1920 MB
Bus Width 64x4 (256 bit)
Anti Aliasing Modes -?-
Filtering Modes Bilinear, Trilinear, 2x Anisotropic, 4x Anisotropic, 8x Anisotropic, 16x Anisotropic
Noise Level Moderate
Max Power Draw 105 Watts
Count of performance levels : 1
Level 1
GPU Clock 600 MHz
Memory Clock 900 MHz
Shader Clock 1500 MHz

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Summary
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz 43 °C
Conroe 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5K SE/EPU (LGA775) 31 °C
Graphics
SyncMaster (800x600@60Hz)
512MB GeForce 8800 GT (nVidia)
Hard Drives
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-00L7A0 ATA Device (SATA) 45 °C
733GB Western Digital WDC WD7500AACS-00D6B0 ATA Device (SATA) 43 °C
Optical Drives
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-215 ATA Device
Audio
USB Audio Device

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Motherboard
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model P5K SE/EPU (LGA775)
Version System Version
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model P35/G33/G31
Chipset Revision A2
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model 82801IB (ICH9)
Southbridge Revision 02
System Temperature 31 °C
BIOS
Brand American Megatrends Inc.
Version 0304
Date 03/14/2008
Voltage
CPU CORE 1.144 V
MEMORY CONTROLLER 1.688 V
+3.3V 3.232 V
+5V 4.848 V
+12V 8.252 V
VIN5 1.656 V
VIN6 1.208 V
PCI Data
Slot PCI-E
Slot Type PCI-E
Slot Usage Available
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCIEX16_1
Slot Number 0
Slot PCI
Slot Type PCI
Slot Usage Available
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCI_1
Slot Number 1
Slot PCI
Slot Type PCI
Slot Usage In Use
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCI_2
Slot Number 2
Slot PCI-E
Slot Type PCI-E
Slot Usage Available
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCIEX1_1
Slot Number 3
Slot PCI-E
Slot Type PCI-E
Slot Usage Available
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCIEX1_2
Slot Number 4
Slot PCI-E
Slot Type PCI-E
Slot Usage Available
Bus Width 32 bit
Slot Designation PCIEX1_3
Slot Number 5

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Is it possible that a motherboard bios update may resolve this issue provided one is available?

Thank you for any suggestions you may have.

Fool Monkey

 

[Saltgrass]

Does your system recognize the monitor, any drivers for it? Are you overclocking the Video Card?

What connection to the monitor are you using? Are other connections available, or other monitors?

 

[Fool Monkey]

Yes no problem recognizing monitor. Win 7 automatically installed drivers for the nvidia 8800 GT and when it restarted it was only letting me have 800 X 600 and the resolution slider was greyed out so I could not change it to a higher resolution. I found at least three othere nvidia drivers but they all did not help. When I uninstalled these new drivers I was immediately able to get higher resolution untill i did a restart and it went back to 800 600 and then win 7 automatically put back in the Microsoft version of the nvidia drivers which of course does not work properly?

Thank you for your help

Fool Monkey

 

[Saltgrass]

If you want to test, you can use the Winkey+Pause to open the System control panel. Then Advanced System Settings and Hardware tab. Set the driver updates option there and maybe Windows will not try to replace the ones you install.

There may be a situation where Windows thinks the drivers are not correct, for some reason.