[SOLVED] Acer monitor not showing 16:9 resolutions

[hellbounddeadman]

PC Specs (the ones useful for this question):
Monitor: Acer V203H LED
GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GTX 750 Ti
MB: Intel DQ77MK
CPU: Intel i7 2600k
PSU: ATX 850 (850watts)

I have an Acer V203H LED monitor. I had to uninstall windows 10 and install Windows 7 Pro recently, and when I booted up windows, the Resolution was in 4:3, so I went into control panel to switch it to 1600x900 (my monitors Native resolution) and no 16:9 resolutions are showing up, it only shows (1280x800 - 1024x726 - 800x600). The computer also reads my monitor as "Generic PnP Monitor". The computer also gives me Error (code 43) when looking at the properties for my GPU, I have installed the latest drivers from Nvidia and have looked for if the V203H needs any drivers. But the problem priests.

 

[Obakasama]

Did you install the monitor driver? You don't confirm one way or the other.

That said... inclined to think it might be a graphics card related issue. Have you tried a clean installation of drivers to eliminate it being a driver issue?

 

[Glenwing]

Monitors don't need drivers.

It's because you haven't installed proper drivers for your graphics card or haven't restarted since installing them.

 

[Obakasama]

The fact Windows sees the monitor as generic means Windows doesn't identify it correctly. If it could identify the monitor model then it wouldn't need a driver. With older monitors you may even be required to disable signed drivers in Windows 10 to install them (as was the case with my last monitor); newer monitors shouldn't have this issue with signed drivers though. The driver for the monitor is dated to 2010: https://www.acer.com/ac/en/ID/content/support-product/696;-;

Normally I wouldn't expect there to be an issue if the graphics card is working properly, and it sounds like something is wrong there. We should eliminate any other variables which may contribute to the issue in hand.

 

[Glenwing]

Monitors don't need drivers they are Plug and Play (that is what PnP means). They are recognized by name and their supported resolutions are identified by reading the EDID through the video connection, which is a standardized process. Generally failure to do so is caused by lack of proper communication with the GPU when no GPU drivers are installed or the monitor connection hasn't been reset since installing the GPU drivers (i.e. by restarting after installing GPU drivers, or unplugging the monitor and reconnecting it).