topic Problems with external display on VAIO Z1 in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125901#M90653 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have a vaio pcg-z1xsp, and i bought an external tft monitor to plug into it and increase my workspace. <BR /><BR />however, the monitors native resolution is 1680x1050 (widescreen) but i can't set my laptop to output that resolution. it will do 1600x 1200, but there are no widescreen setting available to me. <BR /><BR />at first i thought it may be because the latops gfx card only had 16mb of ram, but then i worked out that 1600x1200 is actually higher than 1680x 1050. <BR /><BR />so does anyone know if there is a way i can manually set the resolution or is it just plain not possible with this laptop?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:45:43 GMT smanger 2006-09-13T10:45:43Z Problems with external display on VAIO Z1 https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125901#M90653 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have a vaio pcg-z1xsp, and i bought an external tft monitor to plug into it and increase my workspace. <BR /><BR />however, the monitors native resolution is 1680x1050 (widescreen) but i can't set my laptop to output that resolution. it will do 1600x 1200, but there are no widescreen setting available to me. <BR /><BR />at first i thought it may be because the latops gfx card only had 16mb of ram, but then i worked out that 1600x1200 is actually higher than 1680x 1050. <BR /><BR />so does anyone know if there is a way i can manually set the resolution or is it just plain not possible with this laptop?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:45:43 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125901#M90653 smanger 2006-09-13T10:45:43Z Re: Problems with external display on VAIO Z1 https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125903#M90654 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The Graphics Card simply won't do the mode you are asking it to do.<BR /><BR />See ATI link below: -<BR /><BR /><A href="http://mirror.ati.com/products/embedded/mobilityradeon/features.html" target="_blank">http://mirror.ati.com/products/embedded/mobilityradeon/features.html</A><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:23:52 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125903#M90654 KurtBonfield 2006-09-13T11:23:52Z Re: Problems with external display on VAIO Z1 https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125905#M90655 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks for the reply!<BR /><BR />that sucks. anyone want to buy my laptop?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:50:23 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/problems-with-external-display-on-vaio-z1/m-p/125905#M90655 smanger 2006-09-13T11:50:23Z