This is really getting annoying now.
Windows 7 is refusing to believe that I can display 1440x900 and I cant choose it on any list (it doesn’t appear), however it’ll show 1600x900 fine.
Is there a way I can overide it?
The PC display it fine in Ubuntu and Debian.
that’s not a OS issue, that’s a driver problem with the driver not listing the res outputs (or not supporting them in that OS)
What GPU?
DT.
Intel internal - I downloaded the Intel Vista drivers and it said they wouldn’t install cos it wasn’t Vista.
Then Windows pops up and says it failed to install and to try again to get it to work on Windows 7 so I installed and it still doesn’t appear.
Most annoying as it seems a lot faster than both Ubuntu and Debian!
Intel is known (by me at least) for their lousy support of new operating systems.
Looks like I’ll move back to linux on it then.
give guru3d a try, I seem to recall that in many cases the missing res was just something you could add into the manifest file of the installer, in a similiar way to just adding the res to the x-config.
DT.
Been a long time since I tinkered but most graphic drivers installs
there are some INF files … one will have all the Card / monitors / screen res combo’s in it.
You could add to that the needed resolutions, then when you do the install it will make them available.
Its just finding the right .inf file or setup file.
equally could be a case of going into windows/system32/ blahblah blah… Monitors.inf
as said been a while.
Seem to remember messing with inf files back when GPU folding came out. Will have a go in a bit.
EDIT:
Reinstalled windows 7 with the monitor attached (ie the KVM was directed at the 7 machine and the Vista machine was turned off so the screen focussed) and it’s now displaying in 1440x900 fine and Windows 7 recognises the screen rather than as a PnP monitor.
Ahh the Joy’s of installing OS’s via a KVM, mine used to refuse to see the mouse unless it was selected during boot up…
Glad you got it sorted
Now I have to redo it all as the hard drive is failing - at least according to Windows 7 it is. 
- Which doesn’t surprise me… it’s been having piss poor performance the last few days.
Would get a SSD but the prices are still astronomical!