*taps mic*

"ivandaman" and other's who post without reading the entire contents of this thread, please, READ THE DAMN THREAD before posting! The people that have knowledge to offer in here, don't have time to "hold your hand" through every little problem, they're not getting paid to help, so show some respect and intelligence by READING first. Thank you.

Scott Buron,
Ok here are the instructions on how to change your adapters resfresh rate.

*Note: This is the long way but for those who do not know it is the easiest.

1 Click on the start menu
2 Then Find Settings
3 Then Control Panel (Once This Window Opens Locate "DISPLAY")
4 Double Click On "Display"
5 On top you will see TABS under the Title That Reads "Display Properties" Select The Tab "Settings".
6 Where you see "Screen Area" Look Below to the far right and you will see a Button called "Advanced" Click on it.
7 Now A New Window Has Openned And There Are More Tabs The First Tab And Default Is "General" Right Next To "General" Is A Tab Called "Adapter" Click On The "Adapter" Tab
8 Now Look On This Screen And You Will See "Refresh Rate" Below The Title "Refresh Rate" You Will See A Long Skinny Box With And Arrow Pointing Down Click On The Arrow This Is How You Force Your Cards Refresh Rate.

*Note: In the artical it tells you to use "60hz" I tryed that and it still did not work and either does "Optimal" So I Tried "Adapter Default" And Now Everything Works Fine. That Is Why I Said Read The Artical Link I Posted It Is A Different geForce Card But It Is Still nVIDIA Chip Set and They Are Known To Have Problems With There Refesh Rates.

I Hope This Will Help You Out Scott And All Here That Can Or Will Take The Time To Read This Thread And Those Who Do Not Read The Thread While Have Fun Not Gaming.

Scott,
Is This Some What Your Problem After Reading Over Your First Post Again I Am Now Sure That It Is A Refresh Rate Problem I Did Some Research And I Found A Person With Kind Of The Same Problem Read This And Try Doing What I Told You With The Refresh Rate But First Read This Below And Go To This Link. I Am Sure After You Have Read This And Adjusted Your Refresh Rate You Will Now Have This Problem Anymore.

http://pc.ign.com/mail/2002-07-18.html

Problem:
i have a (according to my display properties)

Samsung SyncMaster955
its a 19" flat screen CRT
and a MSI Starforce GeForce4 Ti 4200

but whenever i try to crank up my desktop resolution by more than 1280x960
i get an error message saying SYNC OUT OF RANGE

im not sure if this helps but my monitor refresh rate is 85Hz

Resolution:
Both video cards and monitors are limited to refresh rate / resolution combinations. For future reference, check documentation for your card and monitor to see what will work (everything video comes with a little easy to reference table, most likely somewhere on the box or in the manual). In this case, the incompatibility lies with your monitor.

According to the spec sheet, your monitor can do:


1600x1200 @68Hz
1280x1024 @79Hz
1152x864 @93Hz
1024x768 @104Hz
800x600 @131Hz
640x480 @160Hz
Forcing it to higher resolutions and refresh rates it's not capable of handling will obviously not work. It's not a problem or an error that you are experiencing, but rather a technological limitation. You should be able to just scale it down to 75Hz and not notice a problem. You don't need 85Hz and greater than 1280x960 resolution on a 19" display -- it's unnecessary overkill and won't even work for you.

Scott,
Is This Some What Your Problem After Reading Over Your First Post Again I Am Now Sure That It Is A Refresh Rate Problem I Did Some Research And I Found A Person With Kind Of The Same Problem Read This And Try Doing What I Told You With The Refresh Rate But First Read This Below And Go To This Link. I Am Sure After You Have Read This And Adjusted Your Refresh Rate You Will Now Have This Problem Anymore.

http://pc.ign.com/mail/2002-07-18.html

Problem:
i have a (according to my display properties)

Samsung SyncMaster955
its a 19" flat screen CRT
and a MSI Starforce GeForce4 Ti 4200

but whenever i try to crank up my desktop resolution by more than 1280x960
i get an error message saying SYNC OUT OF RANGE

im not sure if this helps but my monitor refresh rate is 85Hz

Resolution:
Both video cards and monitors are limited to refresh rate / resolution combinations. For future reference, check documentation for your card and monitor to see what will work (everything video comes with a little easy to reference table, most likely somewhere on the box or in the manual). In this case, the incompatibility lies with your monitor.

According to the spec sheet, your monitor can do:


1600x1200 @68Hz
1280x1024 @79Hz
1152x864 @93Hz
1024x768 @104Hz
800x600 @131Hz
640x480 @160Hz
Forcing it to higher resolutions and refresh rates it's not capable of handling will obviously not work. It's not a problem or an error that you are experiencing, but rather a technological limitation. You should be able to just scale it down to 75Hz and not notice a problem. You don't need 85Hz and greater than 1280x960 resolution on a 19" display -- it's unnecessary overkill and won't even work for you.

Scott,
Is This Some What Your Problem After Reading Over Your First Post Again I Am Now Sure That It Is A Refresh Rate Problem I Did Some Research And I Found A Person With Kind Of The Same Problem Read This And Try Doing What I Told You With The Refresh Rate But First Read This Below And Go To This Link. I Am Sure After You Have Read This And Adjusted Your Refresh Rate You Will Now Have This Problem Anymore.

http://pc.ign.com/mail/2002-07-18.html

Problem:
i have a (according to my display properties)

Samsung SyncMaster955
its a 19" flat screen CRT
and a MSI Starforce GeForce4 Ti 4200

but whenever i try to crank up my desktop resolution by more than 1280x960
i get an error message saying SYNC OUT OF RANGE

im not sure if this helps but my monitor refresh rate is 85Hz

Resolution:
Both video cards and monitors are limited to refresh rate / resolution combinations. For future reference, check documentation for your card and monitor to see what will work (everything video comes with a little easy to reference table, most likely somewhere on the box or in the manual). In this case, the incompatibility lies with your monitor.

According to the spec sheet, your monitor can do:


1600x1200 @68Hz
1280x1024 @79Hz
1152x864 @93Hz
1024x768 @104Hz
800x600 @131Hz
640x480 @160Hz
Forcing it to higher resolutions and refresh rates it's not capable of handling will obviously not work. It's not a problem or an error that you are experiencing, but rather a technological limitation. You should be able to just scale it down to 75Hz and not notice a problem. You don't need 85Hz and greater than 1280x960 resolution on a 19" display -- it's unnecessary overkill and won't even work for you.

*taps mic*

*kevin durler and scott burler"


first of all ..................................F$#$#! U!!!!

AND SECOND i wasnt talkin to you aight??!?!

and 3rd there wasnt anything in the f$#%! thread to help me out

and 4th F$#@! u ok ?? gudday!!!

ivandaman,
I can see you are a man or something with very little intelligence therefore I will say good day and grow up. Oh by the way there is a dictionary out there that may help you with your spelling and choice of words. Dude your are a loser and hermaphrodite. I bet you wonder what that means ha ha ha.

Mr. Kevin Durler: The Adapter refresh rate you are referring is it in XP or 98?Because you said you are running it dual boot. I still can't find it in my display settings, adapter. I'm running XP.I've tried everything here and still no luck.

Dear friends i think i have found the solution to our problem, i tried every possible solution posted in this forum but none work, my computer use to freeze in D3D aplications but I open my case to see if my video card fan was broken, it wasnīt but it was late and i went to sleep, the next morning i didnīt close my case and start, and I start palying and it was like magic my computer didnīt freeze, I have been playing for two days know no freezing at all. So why dont you try, opening your cases and cooling your computers with more ventilation. It works for me hopefully it will work for you.

Please keep all profanity out of this forum. It is not the place for it and will not be tolerated. If you have a problem with something someone posted, please take it up with the mod of these boards. Thank you.

Murriel Natiola,
You will find it in the same place as in Windows 95 - Windows XP. Follow the same steps I gave you before to change it.

Rafeal,

Although opening your case to help with ventilation my have helped you, but that can hurt your system big time. If your case wasn't built with proper air flow it will over heat. I build $30,000 video editing systems and we have to pay close attenion to air flow over the video cards, ide - scsi hard drives and cpu. All computer cases have vent in them, but all those vents are not needed. They are there for those people that are not properly venting their systems. By placing fans in the right place and taping off extra vents will maximize your air flow over those vital parts and they will stay cool. I do now know of any links to show you to give you a better idea on how to do this. But try doing a google search. But truthfuly it is almost common sence, just think about how air travels. Too many fans can be just as bad as no fans. I hope this helps you all that are having thermal problems.

Rafael Chiriboga,
Good job on solving your problem is it not amazing that once you find a resolution someone else has to post a resolution that is a the same as yours where were you Francis Campbell when he did not have a resolution did not hear or see your name here. HA HA

Kevin,

I was not posting a resolution. Although it may have helped Raf, I did not want others to think that it was the cure. I wanted to let people know that it can be dangerous to leave you case open like that. Raf's case my have poor air flow and when he opened it, it alowed his devices to cool off. Again I was not offering a resolution, some insight about the pros and cons about trying what he did. I still have not gotten my graphics card to work right so every so often I drop by to see what people have posted. But please, lets stay on topic, but thanx for your respons.

Ok All sorry I was wrong about Windows XP there is no Adapter Refresh Rate In Display Properites Murriel Natiola pointed this out to me but the resolution is the same some what just more work. Ok here it is the resolution for Windows XP.

One you need to find out what the refresh rate on your Monitor. Ok once you have found that then you will go to your display properties then "Settings" then "Advanced" then select the "Monitor" Tab Now look down and you will see "Screen Refresh Rate" in the "Monitor Settings" frame there will be a dropped down box that will allow you to choose different refresh rate for your monitor make sure there is a check mark in the caption that reads "Hide modes that monitor cannot display" now go to the "Adapter" Tab you will see a command button with the caption "List Modes" Now what you need to do is match the "Screen Refresh Rate" with the refresh rates of the Adapter.

This should do the trick for Windows XP.

Thanks, I'm going to try adjusting my refresh rate and then run it in AGP mode again to see if that solves the problem. If not, I'll be posting again in a couple days.

Ivandaman, there was no offense meant, but alot of people come into these forums and disrespectfully drop random posts asking questions about a variety of issues in which the sollutions have already been posted much earlier in this thread. They just simply drop posts without reading the contents of this thread, which in my eyes is kind of rude.

Thanks Kev, talk to you as soon as I test this new theory. I'm certain it has something to do with the limitations of my monitor along with my refresh rates.

Thanks I understand that it is not good to have my case open, but im wasnīt saying to keep the case open but to take care about thermal problems, since it seems that Geforce 4 is extremely sensitive to temperature, I am saying this because with my geforce 2 I have never had this problem, I have bouht an extra fan and now i have no problems with my Geforce 4.

Sorry, me again , Also I am using Direct X 9 and The latest nvidia drivers, games are running faster. 007, Unreal, Need for speed hot pursuit 2.

Ok, here is what I have learned...

My desktop and system resolution is " 1024 x 768 ". This is the resolution I use for my system settings.

My refresh rates on the "Properties/settings/advanced/monitor/drop-down box" are as follows...

60 hz @ 1024 x 768
70 hz @ 1024 x 768
72 hz @ 1024 x 768
75 hz @ 1024 x 768
85 hz @ 1024 x 768

I have individually play tested each one to see the effects, all of them crashed in the same way, black screen, looping sound. I even tried setting the game to "1024 x 768" thinking that the game resolution had to match the desktop resolution. Still crashed.

Any ideas?

Ok Scott,
Did you set the Adapter Refresh Rate The Same As The Monitior Refresh Rate. If Not Try That And If You Allready Did That Then Try Running The Game by setting the Resolution of the game to 800X600 and the refresh rate Monitor to 60hz and Adapter 800x600 60hz see if that works. You can also find a driver for your monitor. You are running Windows XP right.