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Just tried this in Vista, and no joy. I read the EDID info, which didn't have any details on 5040x1050. Went ahead and put all the other info in, and was going to see if Matrox had the timing details. When I tried to enter 5040 in the "H Active Pixel" box, I get this error: "Horizontal Active Pixels must be between 0 and 4095. Wonder if Win7 has the same limitation.

Is there any forum where we can inquire and see why that limit is?

Edit: Tried in Win7 as well. No joy there. May try to see if I can get 5040x1050 out of my EyeFinity, but it looks like no go on the TH2Go.

Ibrin, I got the same error when trying to get my 5970 working with my th2go so I gave up.

I did then try using it again to get that resolution in eyefinity, i.e. 1680x1050 on my native 1920x1200 monitors, just for increased framerates.

That didnt seem to work either as I created an override inf file that had 1680 ad the highest resolution but it still kept going to 1920..

Did you delete all other res options in the inf file?

I admit I didn't , I just got rid of the 'native' 1920x1200 and told it the panels native res was 1680x1050.

You need to remove all other options or it won't work. Don't edit an existing EDID make a new one that is empty.

The Eyefinity/TH2go isn't controlled by the EDID you don't set 5040 x 1050 in the EDID you set the monitor limits so if you require 5040 x 1050 Eyefinity you set 1680 x 1050 in the monitor EDID. For 5760 x 1200 you set 1920 x 1200 etc.

Try these timings for 1680 x 1050 @ 60Hz

The TH2Go is seen as a monitor and it has its own EDID. You would need to set it for 5040x1050 to get Windows to see it. The whole point is that the box fools Windows into seeing one super-wide monitor

Aren't EDID timing unique to a monitor?

The TH2Go is seen as a monitor and it has its own EDID. You would need to set it for 5040x1050 to get Windows to see it. The whole point is that the box fools Windows into seeing one super-wide monitor

Aren't EDID timing unique to a monitor?

Ah ok.

The timings add up to 60Hz so should be safe. I didn't have a problem using them on my 24" 1920 x 1200. Ideally you should use timings for your panel type but if you can't find any then thats not a bad place to start.

isn't it kinda lame that eyefinity/ati doesn't just let you set it from it's control panel? seems like we have to jump through hoops

Totally lame. Bordering on lazy. They appear to have assumed that we would all be happy to simply run our panels at max (native) res, along with a couple other generics (that don't even have the correct aspect ratio) and left it at that.

Oh yeah - editing EDID's: this is really gonna catch on with the mainstream. :roll:

No, this is not "laziness" but issues with the way Windows does stuff. As mentioned in the other thread.

No, this is not "laziness" but issues with the way Windows does stuff. As mentioned in the other thread.

Will this ever be solved? I'm referring to the inability to select lower triplehead resolutions (and I don't count the useless 3840x1024 and 2400x600).

If not, I need to return these 24" monitors I just purchased. Just need a straight answer - no hard feelings.