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It was with a custom resolution.

Using a custom res in 180.43 worked fine. Tried to upgrade to 181.22 or 182.05 and no go. I get the wonderful Not Optimal resolution message on my Dell 2208's. Putting back 180.43 fixes the issue. Also, using Powerdesk to set the res works in 180.43 but not 181.22 or 182.05.

I''ve sent in a support ticket with Matrox regard this particular issue.

The Beta PowerDesk drivers seem to be written specifcally for 180.43.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Nope the BETA powerdesk works for me in Win7, I don't have Vista installed at the moment. So it is not written for a specific driver, the NV driver for Win7 is a different, BETA one itself.

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Nope the BETA powerdesk works for me in Win7, I don't have Vista installed at the moment. So it is not written for a specific driver, the NV driver for Win7 is a different, BETA one itself.

:evil: I tried now 3 cards of NVIDIA: GTX8800, 200 and 280 and NONE of them was able to produce 1680x1050@60Hz!!!!! and beta driver of Matrox.
Always idiotic message "test failed" while display was fine.
Now I know 100% that it must be an error of Matrox. If somebody of this company would have the grace to follow this forum they should know.
What the hell is so difficult to set the default resolution to 1680x1050@60Hz instead of 1680x1050@57Hz??
If Matrox is too silly to do this - does anybody know how to patch the driver in order to set it to :arrow: 1680x1050@60Hz as :arrow: default, native resolution?
Cheers,
Harry

Well..I just downloaded Forceware 182.06 (WHQL) from Nvidia's site.

Still getting "Custom test mode failed"

It looks like the issue is related to the BETA Matrox Driver and Vista x64 (and possibly Vista x86 installs).

Yay. :(

Removed Forceware 182.06 (WHQL) and installed Forceware 182.08 (WHQL) and i'm still getting the OSD error on my Dell 2208 Ultrasharps regarding the "Non-Optimal Resolution".

Removing and re-installing the BETA GXM does nothing. As soon as the GXM attempts to set 5040x1050 I get the OSD Error.

Again, downgrading my driver to 180.48 (WHQL) fixes the issue completely. I hope Matrox does something about this as I do not want to be version locked on what driver I can install on my system.

Im using Vista x64 (w/sp1) and all updates.

Matrox support said, it's NVIDIA error!
Please hackers, be mercy with us, and patch the driver of Matrox, because they seem not to be able to solve this. :evil:
I proved that it's not NVIDIA error but they claim not!!

As I am having issues with this as well - i thought I would post. I am running Vista 64bit and can run 4320 x 900 all day long - if I try and go up to 5040 my centre screen makes the adjustment but the two side screens stay blank - and I have a non preset mode error on the centre screen :-/ so I have no choice but to revert back.....

Getting very fed up atm
:x

Just installed NIVDIA 182.47 beta drivers, with Vista64 and it is working!!

My order of install was..

1. installed 180.48, used fix in first post to manually add 5040. used MXM to manually add other modes. all working.

2. Some time later, tried to install WHQL 182.08 and failed to set modes, same problem as everyone else here.

3. re-installed 180.48 and got everything working again. I had restart MXM wizard and let it generate the INF files again and let it reboot a few times.

4. I installed beta 182.47 driver (from guru3d.com) then restarted. I was surpised to find that my previous modes are still there and ArmedAssault let me select 5040x1050x57hz and it works!.

Can somebody please confirm 182.47 beta working or am I just kidding myself?

I'm running Vista 32 ,Nvidia GTX260 and 182.08 driver, and the beta GXM did the trick for my system to get 5040x1050@57hz, thanks alot. 8)

I'm running Vista 32 ,Nvidia GTX260 and 182.08 driver, and the beta GXM did the trick for my system to get 5040x1050@57hz, thanks alot. 8)

But 57Hz is sh..., how about 60Hz?? Did you try it?