Getting Native Resolution on a External Monitor

[Nerof50]

Hey guys I hooked my MBP up to my Dell W1700 today, and everything went fine except i can only pick resoultions of 800x600 or 1024x768. I know the dell also supports 1280x720 and 1280x768 yet i cant select those resolutions. When i have the monitor hooked up to my desktop, everything is fine and i can select all the resolutions. So do i need to install the monitor dirvers onto my MBP or what? Anyways this happens in Both OSX and Windows Vista. I would just kind of like to get the native resouluton out of monitor.

Help would be appreciated

 

[FJ218700]

try a restart with the external hooked up. Usually works for me.

 

[Nerof50]

well i got it to display 1280x768 in OSX fine, but in vista i can still only go up to 1024x768 so i still need help


any ideas

 

[TheStu]

Is this a widescreen monitor? If it isn't then it should be able to go up to 1280*1024, if it is then that is a really weird res that I thought most companies had stopped using.

 

[Nerof50]

yea its a widescreen monitor with a maximum and native resolution of 1280x768. So i have no idea why the hell it wont even let me select that resolution