Cannot change screen resolution to 1600 X 900

Ashad Rahman

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Apr 6, 2015
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My Monitor has been showing stretched-out images lately. I knew that my screen resolution is not right. I tried to change the screen resolution but there were only two options (1024 X 768 & 1280 X 1024) but none worked. It is my old monitor so I know that the correct resolution is 1600 X 900. Then I went to 'Advanced settings' and clicked on 'List All Modes'. It displayed 2 more options (640 X 480 & 800 X 600) but it didn't matter. I also unchecked the 'Hide modes that this monitor cannot display' checkbox under Monitor tab to see if it added 1600 X 900 resolution, but no. I checked if the adapter and monitor drivers were updated. They were.
I know this is a driver problem but I don't know what to do.

My PC Specs:
Processor: Pentium Dual Core CPU E5400
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
Display Adapter Type: Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
Monitor Type: Compaq Q2009 Series Wide LCD Monitor
No graphics card

Any help will be appreciated.
 



Manufacturer: FOXCONN
Model: ETON
Chipset: Intel G41
Southbridge: Intel 82801GB (ICH7/R)
LPCIO: ITE IT8720

I gave everything given in CPU-Z. Hope it helped.
 
OK according to the Intel website the G41 chipset is too old to have its own Windows 8 drivers. It says it will run on Windows 8, but you will need to run windows update and install the intel chipset driver (it will be in the list of optional updates probably), if you are running 8.1 it says there is no support 🙁
 


But I am using Windows 8.1. So is there nothing I can do? Anything at all?!
 


So any other driver won't work, right? I guess not.
Anyway thanks for your help.