Today my brother gave me an early Christmas present when he saw that I was going to start working on some digital photos. He gave me a big wide screen monitor! Yay!
However, my Toshiba M200 will not support the new monitor’s 1920x1080 resolution. Sigh.
So I thought I’d document my research tonight.
The M200 display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M (driver version 46.44, dated 2004-04-15), and 1920x1080 is not one of the supported resolutions. I looked for a newer driver, but the NVIDIA website says, “The manufacturer of this system requires that you download the driver for your GPU from their support site.”
Looking on the Toshiba website, I only found that other people were also looking for an updated driver with wide screen resolutions--and failing. Apparently Toshiba makes driver changes specific to their notebooks but doesn’t bother to keep updating the drivers to keep them from becoming obsolete.
This NVIDIA link (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html) says that the 173.14.xx driver supports GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M, but I can’t find any Windows or XP downloads for 173.14.xx. (The downloads appear to be for Unix/Linux.)
