acer al1916w resolution problems

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hi
thanks for suggesting me powerstrip dude

i have downloaded and installed it but don't know how to get on wid it to make my screen rresolution 1440x900

can u plz guide me thorugh it.

 
Hi

When you start PowerStrip, it's icon appers in your system tray. Click on that icon and choose Display profiles -> Configure. At the right side it will be slider "Resolution". Choose your 1440x900 by moving it. Click Apply.

That's all, try and say if it wouldn't work, we'll try something else.
 
hey in the resolution slider, the maximum resolution it is giving is 1280x1024 which is the same that i m using.


plzzz help
 
Maybe your video adapter doesn't support 1440x900 resolution. I had this problem too when my graphics controller was integrated and didn't support 16:10 ratio.

If it is so, I advise you to take your monitor back to the store and buy an another 19" monitor (maybe Acer AL1916, without "W" letter), which will be 4:3 ratio with native resolution 1280x1024, so your video adapter would correctly show it.
 
Well, the laws in your country must establish the term till which you can take the purchase back to the store. It called money-back, and here (in Ukraine) it amounts two weeks.

The other way you can try is to find out whether you have on AGP port in your motherboard. If you have, you can buy or ask friends for any cheap graphics card starting even from GeForce MX400 (they seems to have compability with 16:10 ratio) and higher, get it to your AGP port, connect monitor cable to this card and enjoy 1440x900.
 
I believe this problem is due to a fault in the monitor. I work for a company who has just bought 80 identical PCs and 80 AL1916W monitors. We used the same ghost image on each PC and out of the 80 we bought, 4 of them had this problem. I have been in contact with Acer who advised me to return them under their RMA policy. My advice to you home users - Replace them if possible. Even if you are lucky enough to have hardware that can be forced to its native resolution, you still have a faulty product.
 
I am also having problems with these monitors, slightly different to the ones listed above. We are using 4 of these monitors in my office on Dell Latitude D430 laptops each an Intel Express Chipset 945 Graphics Card. The monitors had been working perfectly for about a month - the resolution was found automatically, appeared in graphics options and we had no problems. Then suddenly we switched on the laptops one day and the 1440 x 900 resolution had disappeared from the graphics options. The monitors now display the incorrect resolution. I have tried everything I can think of to bring back the correct resolution. I've tried downloading the most up to date graphics driver, chipset driver and BIOS from the Dell website, downloading new 1916W drivers from the ACER website - nothing has worked. Acer maintain its a software issue and won't exchange the monitors, our IT tech guys say it's an issue with the hardware and I am stuck in the middle! Can anyone offer any solutions? I don't know where the resolution has disappeared to! Could a Windows Update be the issue?
 
I am also having the above mentioned problem. I just installed Windows Vista and while using ATI HD 4670 card, i got the native resolution of 1440x900 with the drivers and all already installed. But when i switched my computer back on after some while, the 1440x900 option was gone. i am now using 1280x1024, but i would like to use the native resolution of my lcd i.e acer al1916w.

please help....
 
Same problem. Like SaraC, I am using intel 945 chipset. Until yesterday resolution was fine. Now it has vanished and I've tried everything I can think of to get it back. Nothing has worked.
 
Ditto. We've got a bunch of identical laptops, HP 6510b, and their associated docking station, plugged into a bunch of AL1916W's. Randomly, one will just outright fail to find the correct resolution, and that's after it's been working for a while.
 
I had the same problem. It came up with "input not supported". Went into the graphics options (right-click on the desktop) and selected "full screen'. reset to 1400*900. problem solved.
Neil
 
Its the monitor itself that is the problem. At my job they have a few hundred of this model monitor and for whatever it will just stop displaying 1440x900. We tried forcing the resolution under the intel display properties but the screen would flicker and be distorted.

The monitor is just junk and acer doesnt want to admit a problem. Switching to another of the same model will let you select 1440x900, until that monitor eventually fails.

My advise, return it if you can and dont but Acer products.
 
The solution I found was to disconnect the monitor before rebooting and connecting it afterwords. I also dezactivated DDC/CI from monitor's menu. Hope this helps (I use an Intel video card)
 
Thanks mirceaGuru,

Thank you very muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, this solved the problem ;-)

I'm so Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I restarted the system, mean while I have deactivated DDC / CI from Monitors' Settings Menu, then un-pluged My Monitor from CPU, and when I restarted the OS and pluged the Monitor I found the resolution 1440 x 900. Great Work,

I called Acer Service Center too, but they couldn't do anything, just booked my complaint, lets hope they will come to see the problem, that was solved my mirceaGuru :-D

Thanks Buddy, Thanks again for the sharing the SOLUTION.

Byeeeee
 


Okay darkchyld. I just purchased an Acer 20" monitor. I have the same common problem. My resolution only goes to 1280x768. I believe I need 1440x900 resolution, at least that's what my Acer 19" monitor is using. The text is horrible and I'm not getting the full use of my widescreen monitor. Please give me step-by-step instruction for everything I need to do to get my settings correct. Thank you, Summer
 


follow the steps, I'm sure that will work.

I restarted the system, mean while I have deactivated DDC / CI from Monitors' Settings Menu, then un-pluged My Monitor from CPU, and when I restarted the OS and pluged the Monitor I found the resolution 1440 x 900. Great Work,

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I tried your solution above...deactivated the DDC/CI, unplugged it from CPU, restarted, and then plugged it in......this did not resolve my problem. My situation differs slightly...... I have two identical ACER P191w monitors, dual monitor setup using VGA cable on the problem monitor and DVI cable on the working monitor. The setup worked fine for 3 months then the VGA cabled monitor's resolution became distorted and the screen size became too large so I can't access the "X" button or scroll bar. I switched the monitors to troubleshoot and found that the problem monitor connected to the DVI cable worked fine. The Display Properties setting shows that both monitors are selected for 1440x900 resolution. I'm using an ATI Radeon x300 video driver and Windows XP Pro. Any help would be appreciated.

Janis
 


Hi 180sonic

Did you get any resolution on this? I have the same video card and same monitor. needless to mention same problem as well. If so, pleae let me know the work around.
 


Its Here: http://shahjapan.blogspot.com/2009/07/acer-screen-resolution-problem.html
 


here is the solution I found: http://shahjapan.blogspot.com/2009/07/acer-screen-resolution-problem.html
 


How do i deactivate ddc/ci???

PLEASE HELP. i am SO sick of this huge resolution urghh!!!!!! :'(
 
How do i deactivate ddc/ci???

PLEASE HELP. i am SO sick of this huge resolution urghh!!!!!! :'(
Click to expand...

Use the hardware "menu" button on the ACER monitor front button panel.

Press the right arrow button in the on screen menu until you get to the DDC item (second from the left on the second row of icons) and change it there.

HTH.
 
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