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Problems with external display on VAIO Z1

smanger
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Problems with external display on VAIO Z1

i have a vaio pcg-z1xsp, and i bought an external tft monitor to plug into it and increase my workspace.

however, the monitors native resolution is 1680x1050 (widescreen) but i can't set my laptop to output that resolution. it will do 1600x 1200, but there are no widescreen setting available to me.

at first i thought it may be because the latops gfx card only had 16mb of ram, but then i worked out that 1600x1200 is actually higher than 1680x 1050.

so does anyone know if there is a way i can manually set the resolution or is it just plain not possible with this laptop?

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KurtBonfield
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The Graphics Card simply won't do the mode you are asking it to do.

See ATI link below: -

http://mirror.ati.com/products/embedded/mobilityradeon/features.html

smanger
Visitor

thanks for the reply!

that sucks. anyone want to buy my laptop?