[Cyberstud]

Hi There,
I just bought a nice 23,6 inch LCD-Monitor to work with my laptop.
The monitor should work best with resolution 1920x1080, but the max I can choose in my laptop for the second monitor is 1600x1200, and that is not the right size, everything is too wide and flat.
The laptop is a 3 year old Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo L7320GN
The screen-driver is VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP version 6.14.10.343

Is there a way to make my monitor work properly?

I'm not a gamer, so I don's care very much about the speed, just the occational film should work.

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Welcome to Geeks to Go!

I'm afraid there is nothing you can do other than exchanging the monitor for a smaller one with a native resolution that your laptop's graphic adapter can supply. A driver update won't help here. It's your graphics hardware that's the problem, it doesn't have sufficient video memory to output a high enough resolution for that size of monitor.

It's always best to check what your graphics hardware is capable of before buying a monitor, especially with a laptop since you can't simply put in a new, more powerful graphics adapter like you can on a desktop PC.

[phillipcorcoran]

Welcome to Geeks to Go!

I'm afraid there is nothing you can do other than exchanging the monitor for a smaller one with a native resolution that your laptop's graphic adapter can supply. A driver update won't help here. It's your graphics hardware that's the problem, it doesn't have sufficient video memory to output a high enough resolution for that size of monitor.

It's always best to check what your graphics hardware is capable of before buying a monitor, especially with a laptop since you can't simply put in a new, more powerful graphics adapter like you can on a desktop PC.