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    Asus W2W help please

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by codestar, Mar 24, 2008.

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    codestar Newbie

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    Hey guys,

    I have an Asus W2W. 3gb RAM, T7700, WD 2500BEVS 5400RPM HDD, HD2600 etc. I use a 22" Viewsonic 2235VM (1680x1050 max res) as my external screen via HDMI. I use a HDMI to DVI cable for this.

    When using the drivers supplied with my notebook when I first purchased it, the external display was fine and gave me full res but gaming lacked performance (I did not use external screen for gaming - UNPLUGGED). I updated the drivers to the ones before the current ATI drivers (I used the driver patcher to make them compatible). This improved gaming and I still had max res on my external screen - This was great....Now here comes the issue...

    About a month back, when I plugged had my external screen plugged in and I closed my notebook lid and the opened it, my laptop display would become corrupt and have tearing and vertical lines all over it. If I unplugged the HDMI cable and changed res up and then down it would become clear again. The problem then got worse, whenever I plugged in the HDMI to DVI cable the laptops display would become corrupt until I unplugged the HDMI cable. The external display would not be affected at all.

    I got a bit tired of this and updated the drivers to the latest and patched them. I do not get corruption anymore but I can only use 1440x900 (there is no option for 1680x1050 even though CCC recognises native resolution as 1680x1050) res on the 22" (1680x1050 native) and I get terrible VSync issues (tearing) when playing video on the external screen. I can't find an option in the CCC to turn on Vsync. I never had these tearing issues with older drivers but I can't use them due to the display corruption! Even installing the original drivers that came with the notebook results in corruption when it used to be fine.

    So my questions are:
    - How do I configure the VSync in CCC? (if you even can!!)
    - Can I force 1680x1050 resolution in these new drivers?
    - Does this sound like a hardware issue with the display corruption with certain drivers as it never used to happen?
    - If it is the hardware, will Asus have to replace/upgrade my unit?
    - Could it be my HDMI>DVI cable (different drivers, different results my guess is NO)

    What are your thoughts on this?

    Thanks in advance guys!

    Cody
    codest*r
     
    codestar, Mar 24, 2008
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    codestar Newbie

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    bump - anyone?
     
    codestar, Mar 25, 2008
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