Samsung 24" monitor. A keeper after all.
SynchMaster 2494
As mentioned before, I had to put my old monitor back to reset the frame to 60Hz before I could even get the menu to show. When it was going, no 1920 X 1080 was offered for my Nvidia Fx 5200 and the Samsung disc was no help at all. Suddenly, after an hour or so, the res was offered and I had assumed that the disc had done something after all. However, I was very unimpressed with the picture: Lackluster picture, and needed to be turned up very bright to get reasonable contrast and colours.
I left it running on my Vaio (3 Gig, but no dedicated graphics card) to show my son when he arrived. It also did not offer anything like the hi res that was needed. It was in fuzzy-vision on 1280.
At the end of festivities, I knew that it had re-booted at the behest of MS, I thought nothing of this. and at no time had the Samsung CD been put into the machine. Also nothing specific was mentioned about the up-date. I suddenly noticed that the photos on the screen-saver looked good. I was astonished. They were better than I'd ever seen from my aging Nikon. Full 1920 X 1080, with excellent colours - even at low brightness/contrast. I had no idea after 3 years that the old D50 was that good.
So, two things: It seems that MS supplied the driver after an hour or more of it just sitting there in the wrong res. And, the lap-top is capable of giving a better picture than my PC with an Nvidia card. (Though the Nvidia is quicker)
Both surprise me, and indeed it's a bit disappointing to think that I can't use the PC without more expense . . . or can I?
Any attempt to change the drive reports that the driver is working and that it's the latest one. Is there a way to force the change to something better, or do I need to start thinking about a better card?
(The Samsung disc does not seem to offer drivers for specific video sub-systems.)