Windows problem

[ffutures]

On my Windows XP PC the widescreen monitor has 1680 x 1050 resolution, the graphics card is a 128mb ATI radeon 9200 and supports it well.

So I just ordered a stand that will let me rotate the monitor to portrait mode, which ought to be useful for editing whole pages at 100% magnification. Except that I just thought I'd give it a try, only to get this message:

The requested Rotation mode is not supported by your current display mode (resolution and/or refresh rate and/or colour depth) Please change the current display mode and try again.

So I tried reducing the colour depth and it doesn't work. It doesn't want me to change frequency because it might damage the monitor. And changing the fracking resolution defeats the object of the exercise.

I suspect that this ends with me either abandoning the idea or buying another graphics card. Any suggestions?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Really don't want to spend that sort of money right now - apart from anything else, it might be cheaper in the long term to look at a new PC that takes SATA drives and PCI-e graphics cards etc., I'll have to bite the bullet on that sooner or later.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I have an AGP nVidia card, an Asus V9900 ultra I got off Harry Payne. It has a GeForce FX5800 on board with 128Mb RAM. If you think it could handle screen rotation (I never tried it myself before I moved to this HD4670) and you can stand the fan noise which can be considerable then I can post it down to you or get it to you at Novacon, perhaps.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Apologies, for some reason I've only just noticed this.

Many thanks, but I'd really prefer to avoid fan noise if possible. It's not an urgent problem so it's probably best if I say no, at least for now, and look into this some more first.