Win 2000 Pro screen resolution issue.... 1

[johnfdutcher]

I have Win 2000 Pro running on my Compaq Armada Laptop 7400.
I want to alter the screen resolution...but when I enter 'Start', 'Settings', 'Control Panel', 'Display' the
displayed text above the slider says 'Screen size pixels'
instead of 'Screen Resolution' as is the case on my Win 2000
XP desktop at work (Dell).
Sure enough, if I alter the slider bar...the size of the window on the CRT screen changes....NOT the resolution as is the case, once again, at work....and on any other Windows PC I have used ('95, '98). What is the issue here.... why the laptop won't change resolution...only
'size' ????
Thanks, John D.

 

[jrbarnett]

John

What monitor driver do you have set up (you can find this by looking at the "Display:" line on the control panel screen.
For example mine says

Iiyama S900MT1 on Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400

The "Iiyama S900MT1" is the monitor, and it defines the resolutions and refresh rates that the computer is capable of displaying, regardless of the capabilities of the graphics card.

John