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Old 06-28-2007, 11:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Newegg.com - CHIMEI CMV 946D-Silver Silver-Black 19" 2ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 350 cd/m2 650:1 - Retail

thsi wont work with my new computer for some reason.

now i can only stick with my old LCD screen... i want widescreen
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are you connecting via dvi or vga? also, have you tried it on any other pc's?
Are you connecting directly from dvi-to-dvi, vga-to-vga, or dvi-adapter-vga ?

have you tried both dvi, and vga seperately, and with a dvi adapter?

and lastly, what video card are you using for it?
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read what resolutions your videocard can support. Even my video card (Radeon 9600SE) doesn't support widescreen either. I hate the stretched out image anyways on widescreen.
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im connecting via vga, well my graphics card (in my sig) is an originally dvi, but i got a converter with it to do dvi to vga. (so dvi-adapter-vga)

my old computer (the only other computer i've tried it on) had a agp video card with vga.
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well my video card's max resolution is 2560 x 1600..
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problem fixed...turns out only one of my dvi's on my video card does not work. weird.
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huh, thats pretty odd. how long have you had it, maybe you should rma it.
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i had it like a week lol

but anyway, my widescreen also had a dvi connector soooooo yeah.
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u tried that yet?i think youd have better luck with that
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problem fixed...turns out only one of my dvi's on my video card does not work. weird.
Weird. Evga is good about RMAs if you wanted to exchange it, though.
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