Resolution problem on Samsung T220

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Having the same resolution issues w/ no "resolution" yet.
I'm running Dell Inspiron 530 dual core w/ Windows XP Pro sp3.

When I go to the recommended resolution of 1680 x 1050, the Windows screen extends beyond the borders of the 22" monitor. Monitor display will not allow vertical/horzitontal adjustment in digital mode, so can't shrink the screen.

My nVidia GeForce 9400GT thinks my T220's native resolution is 1440 x 900. I have noticed that when I unistall the monitor driver, unplug the DVI cord from the CPU and plug it back in, the default driver that Windows installs is the T190 version 3.0.

Even weirder is when I "update" the monitor driver with the version supplied by Samsung (T220 version 1.0), through "Display" or "Device Manager", and recheck the driver properties, the description is T220 version 3.0 (remember- I downloaded the 1.0 version from Samsung).

My computer seems to think my monitor is the T190 (native resolution 1440 x 900). I was even suggested to update the BIOS. I did and it did not work. It did create another problem that now requires a new motherboard installment. DON'T UPDATE BIOS UNLESS YOU'RE AN IT GENIOUS.

I will now try the Samsung "contact us" route. I like the monitor-it would be great if the resolution issue did not exist.

Good luck ya'll.
 

My folks had exact same problem with a Philips 22'' and an ati card on XP sp2 32bit.
Somehow it fixed itself when I goofed around the Display Settings and CCC resolution options, plus couple of hard reboots on both the pc and the screen. Had the same newest drivers all the time and didn't reinstall. Don't know what actually fixed it, though... some combination in the settings..
 

This is exactly the problem I described. I tried my 7600GT and a couple of newer cards with identical results. :fou:

I own my T220 since October and I can't find a solution yet. It's disappointing... I think my next LCD will be a ViewSonic. 🙁


Where can I get the info to do that? Thanks in advance. :)
 
My Dell is new and still under warranty. I contacted Dell IT support and went through all of the BIOS issues with them. Since no resolution to my BIOS problem, Dell is sending a tech out to my place to install the new mother board. (BIOS problem is minor-upon restart/boot screen gets stuck on DELL screen for inordinately long time before moving to Window boot screen-not a fatal problem but quite annoying).

Regarding monitor, went through issue with a Samsung IT tech w/ no resolution so am sending monitor back for "exchange/repair". I sure hope they don't send me a T220 w/ back light bleeding. I'm not in a financial position to get a different LCD just yet. So dissapointed. I am new to all this PC stuff.
 
I have had the same problem, well i think. I could set my resolution higher, but it would just go black with "no signal" untill it resetted back to the old resolution.
I tried to look for many solutions, and mailed to different services, but no response yet.

Now when i switched the DVI cable of my monitor into the other DVI slot of my videocard it worked again... Seems like i had a corrupted slot or something. I have no idea.
Try this, maybe it works for you too.
 
Jeltz, I tried using the other DVI connector, tried another cable, other Graphics Cards and another PC. I tried everything. Thanks anyway.
 
Guys,

I had the same problem, I am running it off at 17'' toshiba satellite laptop. I had to set it as external monitor only (disable the laptop screen, not dual or extented) in the video card settings. When I did this I was able to set the resolution to the native 1680x1050. However i still have dancing pixels that make the display fuzzy. I have tried everything as its pretty much the most annoying thing in the world after buying a nice monitor. Anyways, it worked fine with my friends new Acer laptop, he has a better video card. I have tried everything, and nothing seems to work. I think we are all just victim of **** video cards.

Has anyone proved iron clad that the video card is _not_ the problem?

Thanks,
MIke
 
I actually had the same problem. My original T220 died and they sent me a replacement, which is the biggest pile of garbage ever. After some troubleshooting, turns out that it has the WRONG EDID information. The retards at Samsung put the EDID for the T190 in it. It is definitely not a video card problem. Windows just enforces the EDID information blindly and rigidly. If you can, take it back to the store and trade it in for a better brand. Their customer service is a joke, and clearly their products are as well. $330 for this? No thanks...I've tried everything until they send me a replacement for the replacement, but nothing works. I can't flash the EDID because it looks like it's write-protected, and Windows can't force a custom resolution. I will never buy another Samsung product again...
 
Well guys. Samsung has finally sent another t220 to me, and it works fine. Upon connecting DVI cable, my nVidia card recognized its native resolution as the correct 1680 x 1050. There are no dead pixels or backlight bleeding.

The only issues were with customer service. When the monitor did not arrive in the promised 5 business days, I shot a stern e-mail regarding their business practices and something about how the Attorney General of New Jersey would get a call (I'm having rebate denial issues w/ Samsung also). Low and behold the next day they e-mailed me to say the monitor was on the way.

I'm not very experience buying electronics, and I have certainly learned a lot by dealing w/ Samsung; their economic bottom line seems to be more important than good customer service and product reliability.

Thanks for all ya'lls feedback
 
Had similar problem with T220. but it now resolved
I downladed the monitor driver.
however to over come the problem I reduced the hardware acceleration from fyll to less than 50%
When I turn on the PC, initially I get lower resolution but I am able to go to higher resolution frrom the screen properties on the monitor.
To me problem solved
I got two nvidia Gforce 6800 on SLI configuration
 
forgot to say that my first T220 would not display anything on connectiing to DVI cable...work on VGA
took it to shop, gave me new one which work well with DVI.
always remember it can be a monitor fault
 
I recently bought a Samsung 2243LNX, at the first time, it was perfect. But after a day it started to show the problem you guys are discussing. So after going through this thread and some others, I tried some of my own ideas. I am using a Radeon 3870. In the CCC under "Monitor Properties" you will see "Adjustments". In the window, there is a field for Synchronization. In my case, under Horizontal, the "-" button was active and "+" button was not active. As the problem is horizontal, I tried the alternate setting and it worked. I clicked the "+" button under Horizontal and the monitor is back to its glory. I just tired this one time. I dont know if this would work in any other case or not.
 
I set it to Primary Display... The time that i got from the box and plugged it in... there was no issue of having the resolution of 1440 x 900... i just adjusted it's brightness because it was to bright for me... i played with NFS Undercover with no problems...
 
I have a similar resolution problem with similar, but not exactly the same hardware. I have XFX Nvidia 7600 GT card and dual Samsung 190BX or BW monitors. I actually ran this setup successfully for nearly two years until I had one monitor break down on me due to a faulty power control issue. Samsung provided useful online help, then took the monitor back and replaced it with one that appears to be working mechanically.

However, upon plugging back in both monitors (one DVI-digital, the second has to be Analog), I could only fire up one monitor as analog, which showed up in 468 x 7?? something resolution. I eventually got the second monitor fired up as a clone, but can not force Windows display manager to extend the desktop across both... also a graphic card control problem that seems to act much like the inability to control the resolution.

Have dialoged extensively with Nvidia and XFX, have installed new drivers in both regular and safe mode and nothing seems to work. Device driver indicates that the graphic card is "working properly" but obviously it isn't. XFX has indicated that it has seen some problems like this that turned out to have some relationship to Windows Registry, but they won't get specific. They have sent me a return order so that they can verify that their card is working properly.

So, I took the card out and reinstalled my old single monitor ATI card, and guess what. It now won't work to it's full resolution capability either.... same sort of problem... windows display setting won't take hold and operation to a proper resolution.

I suspect both cards are working, but that something is wrong in Window Registry. Or maybe its the Samsung firmware issues, but I really suspect that they are working OK. I had one of these monitors working fine to very high resolution to both the original ATI and also for two years with the XFX Nvidia card.... Now neither monitor will work to it's previously capable resolution on either of two graphics cards.

I'm at a loss and looking for someone who has actually documented a solution to this.

Perplexed
 
Your EDID( of your LCD disply) seems to be defective.Unlike ati, nvidia(they think that you are stupid and might fry your display) doesnt allow you to bypass edid, so you can either reprogram edid o physically remove the pin from the display connectorused for communicating edid(then you are free to set whatever you like).

I have a samsung monitor with defective edid,but as im having an ati card it aloows me to ignore EDID.
 
unfortunately powerstrip edid update function is only for registred users, which means u have to pay for it...

but i have found T220 edid + another edid writer app, i hope its correct:

==========================================================================

Monitor
Model name............... SyncMaster
Manufacturer............. Samsung
Plug and Play ID......... SAM03E5
Serial number............ H9XQ401048
Manufacture date......... 2008, ISO week 14
-------------------------
EDID revision............ 1.3
Input signal type........ Digital
Color bit depth.......... Undefined
Display type............. RGB color
Screen size.............. 470 x 300 mm (22,0 in)
Power management......... Active off/sleep
Extension blocs.......... None
-------------------------
DDC/CI................... Supported
MCCS revison............. 2.0
Display technology....... TFT
Controller............... Mstar 0x1000
Firmware revision........ 0.1
Firmware flags........... 0x1
Active power on time..... Not supported
Current frequency........ Not supported

Color characteristics
Default color space...... Non-sRGB
Display gamma............ 2,20
Red chromaticity......... Rx 0,640 - Ry 0,330
Green chromaticity....... Gx 0,300 - Gy 0,600
Blue chromaticity........ Bx 0,150 - By 0,060
White point (default).... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,329
Additional descriptors... None

Timing characteristics
Horizontal scan range.... 30-81kHz
Vertical scan range...... 56-75Hz
Video bandwidth.......... 140MHz
CVT standard............. Not supported
GTF standard............. Not supported
Additional descriptors... None
Preferred timing......... Yes
Native/preferred timing.. 1680x1050p at 60Hz (16:10)
Modeline............... "1680x1050" 119,000 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 +hsync -vsync

Standard timings supported
720 x 400p at 70Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 60Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 67Hz - Apple Mac II
640 x 480p at 72Hz - VESA
640 x 480p at 75Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 56Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 60Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 72Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 75Hz - VESA
832 x 624p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1024 x 768p at 60Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 70Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 75Hz - VESA
1280 x 1024p at 75Hz - VESA
1152 x 870p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1680 x 1050p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 1024p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 960p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1152 x 864p at 75Hz - VESA STD

Report information
Date generated........... 12.05.2009
Software revision........ 2.30.0.797
Operating system......... 5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 3

Raw data
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0F,50,54,BF,EF,80,B3,00,81,80,81,40,71,4F,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,01,7C,2E,90,A0,60,1A,1E,40,30,20,
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79,6E,63,4D,61,73,74,65,72,0A,20,20,00,00,00,FF,00,48,39,58,51,34,30,31,30,34,38,0A,20,20,00,45

==========================================================================

if u run vista try this edid override http://forums.entechtaiwan.com/index.php?topic=6729.msg25544#msg25544

or update edid via http://www.geocities.com/jgeneedid/EDID_Writer.zip

for this u have to run DOS, i will try make bootable flash drive with DOS...

NOTICE: u should know that if u modify edid in your panel u lose warranty!
 
My two non correct real-time Display IDs are:
Monitor
Model name............... SyncMaster
Manufacturer............. Samsung
Plug and Play ID......... SAM03E0
Serial number............ XXXXXXXXXX
Manufacture date......... 2008, ISO week 31
-------------------------
EDID revision............ 1.3
Input signal type........ Analog 0.700,0.300 (1.0V p-p)
Sync input support....... Separate, Composite, Sync-on-green
Display type............. RGB color
Screen size.............. 410 x 260 mm (19,1 in)
Power management......... Active off/sleep
Extension blocs.......... None
-------------------------
DDC/CI................... Not supported

Color characteristics
Default color space...... Non-sRGB
Display gamma............ 2,35
Red chromaticity......... Rx 0,640 - Ry 0,329
Green chromaticity....... Gx 0,300 - Gy 0,600
Blue chromaticity........ Bx 0,150 - By 0,060
White point (default).... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,329
Additional descriptors... None

Timing characteristics
Horizontal scan range.... 30-81kHz
Vertical scan range...... 56-75Hz
Video bandwidth.......... 140MHz
CVT standard............. Not supported
GTF standard............. Not supported
Additional descriptors... None
Preferred timing......... Yes
Native/preferred timing.. 1440x900p at 60Hz (16:10)
Modeline............... "1440x900" 106,500 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync

Standard timings supported
720 x 400p at 70Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 60Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 67Hz - Apple Mac II
640 x 480p at 72Hz - VESA
640 x 480p at 75Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 56Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 60Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 72Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 75Hz - VESA
832 x 624p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1024 x 768p at 60Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 70Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 75Hz - VESA
1280 x 1024p at 75Hz - VESA
1152 x 870p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1440 x 900p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1440 x 900p at 75Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 1024p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 960p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1152 x 864p at 75Hz - VESA STD

Report information
Date generated........... 01/06/2009
Software revision........ 2.30.0.797
Operating system......... 5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 3

Raw data
00,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,00,4C,2D,E0,03,32,32,57,54,1F,12,01,03,0E,29,1A,87,2A,DE,95,A3,54,4C,99,26,
0F,50,54,BF,EF,80,95,00,95,0F,81,80,81,40,71,4F,01,01,01,01,01,01,9A,29,A0,D0,51,84,22,30,50,98,
36,00,9A,01,11,00,00,1C,00,00,00,FD,00,38,4B,1E,51,0E,00,0A,20,20,20,20,20,20,00,00,00,FC,00,53,
79,6E,63,4D,61,73,74,65,72,0A,20,20,00,00,00,FF,00,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,0A,20,20,00,27
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Monitor
Model name............... SyncMaster
Manufacturer............. Samsung
Plug and Play ID......... SAM03E1
Serial number............ XXXXXXXXXX
Manufacture date......... 2008, ISO week 31
-------------------------
EDID revision............ 1.3
Input signal type........ Digital
Color bit depth.......... Undefined
Display type............. RGB color
Screen size.............. 410 x 260 mm (19,1 in)
Power management......... Active off/sleep
Extension blocs.......... None
-------------------------
DDC/CI................... Not supported

Color characteristics
Default color space...... Non-sRGB
Display gamma............ 2,35
Red chromaticity......... Rx 0,640 - Ry 0,329
Green chromaticity....... Gx 0,300 - Gy 0,600
Blue chromaticity........ Bx 0,150 - By 0,060
White point (default).... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,329
Additional descriptors... None

Timing characteristics
Horizontal scan range.... 30-81kHz
Vertical scan range...... 56-75Hz
Video bandwidth.......... 140MHz
CVT standard............. Not supported
GTF standard............. Not supported
Additional descriptors... None
Preferred timing......... Yes
Native/preferred timing.. 1440x900p at 60Hz (16:10)
Modeline............... "1440x900" 106,500 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync

Standard timings supported
720 x 400p at 70Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 60Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 67Hz - Apple Mac II
640 x 480p at 72Hz - VESA
640 x 480p at 75Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 56Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 60Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 72Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 75Hz - VESA
832 x 624p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1024 x 768p at 60Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 70Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 75Hz - VESA
1280 x 1024p at 75Hz - VESA
1152 x 870p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1440 x 900p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1440 x 900p at 75Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 1024p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 960p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1152 x 864p at 75Hz - VESA STD

Report information
Date generated........... 01/06/2009
Software revision........ 2.30.0.797
Operating system......... 5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 3

Raw data
00,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,00,4C,2D,E1,03,32,32,57,54,1F,12,01,03,80,29,1A,87,2A,DE,95,A3,54,4C,99,26,
0F,50,54,BF,EF,80,95,00,95,0F,81,80,81,40,71,4F,01,01,01,01,01,01,9A,29,A0,D0,51,84,22,30,50,98,
36,00,9A,01,11,00,00,1C,00,00,00,FD,00,38,4B,1E,51,0E,00,0A,20,20,20,20,20,20,00,00,00,FC,00,53,
79,6E,63,4D,61,73,74,65,72,0A,20,20,00,00,00,FF,00,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,XX,0A,20,20,00,B4
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Besides resolution, there are some significant differences with the correct information, like DDC/CI support.

Note: I scribbled the Serial Number as is irrelevant.
 
thanks to old friend google & my patience i get native resolution (and other wide res.) with edid i posted😀

before u run command for rewriting edid go to service menu, it will disable write protection for while

how to enter service menu:

1. Set contrast and brightness to 0
2. Press the « Menu » button
3. Press the « Source » button for 5 seconds (the second one on the right)

for exit just switch panel off...
 
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