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Old October 12th 03, 08:22 AM
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Also, make sure to select 'same as desktop', in the dropdown box.
Otherwise, programs (read: Winblows) will hijack the refresh rate back down
to 60Hz.

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Thomas A. Horsley stood up at show-n-tell, in , and
said:

There was a thread here recently about folks (like me) with a Radeon
9200 that only does 60HZ refresh no matter what the Monitor property
page setting was.

There was a pointer to an ATI knowledge base page that says there
should be an "Advanced" button on the Monitor page (there isn't :-).

However, over on the "Displays" page, if you click the button that
says "Monitor" (perhaps that is the origin of the confusion), then
you do get a new dialog box, which, among other things, has a max
refresh rate setting (which is set to 60 by default apparently).

This seems a lot like the "pixel hunt" feature that people hate in
video games - I think it is even worse in user interfaces that aren't
supposed
to be games.

In any case, I can now run my monitor at higher than 60HZ :-).

Here's the full path to find the dialog:

Right click on desktop
Pick "Properties"
Select "Settings" page.
Click "Advanced" button
Select "Displays" page
Click the word "Monitor" that looks like it
is merely a label above the picture of the
monitor, but is apparently actually a button.
Select the "Attributes" page
On that page is a Maximum Refresh control
you can set to something higher than 60HZ.

Of course, this still isn't quite as bad as trying to get my Mom's
laptop (nvidia card) to display DVDs on the TV-out (that took about
30 minutes then another 45 to get the display back to normal again
:-).
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