Windows 10: Monitor unable to use laptop resolution

Hi

My laptop model is Asus X550J runing Intel Core i7, Geforce GTX 850M and i wanted to connect my monitor to my laptop so i use the vga cable to connect to my Acer p193w monitor.

When i tried to use it , it will have a pop up saying that the resolution is not correct or something similar. It then told me to use the setting of my laptop which is 2048*1152 resolutions.

Currently the resolution of my Acer Monitor is 1024 * 768 and when i tried to to use the recommend resolutions, the monitor will go blank and says input not detected and after which reverts back to its original resolutions.

Does anyone know how i can use my laptop resolution on my monitor?

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Unpredictable, sporadic loss of resolution with external monitor with Microsoft Office applications

Thanks for the suggestion.

So this is very interesting.

• Booting up the laptop, NOT connected to the monitor. Laptop on its own has high resolution. Once monitor is connected, the laptop screen is shut off. The monitor has the highest resolution, full utilizing its 4K capabilities.
• Booting up the laptop with monitor connected. Laptop screen has high resolution. Both the laptop and monitor screens are on. Monitor screen duplicates the laptop screen, so the icons and windows appear larger. According to the Setting, System, Display,
  Advanced Setting, the resolution is 1920x1080 although everything appears to have a lower resolution. Now when I close the lid of the laptop, the size of all the icons and windows are reduced and look like the size in (#1) above. What is really interesting
  is that non-Office applications appear to have high resolution (I'm typing this post using Chrome), but Office applications appear to have poorer resolution. The type looks similar to what I'm seeing on my Dell desktop with a 24" 1080p screen (my monitor
  is a 27" 4K display). However, the resolution shown is 3840 x 2160.
• Now I open up the lid of the laptop and get back the duplicate screens (monitor = laptop screen). I then use the function key to change it into the projection mode, and everything looks the same as
  if the lid of the laptop is closed (#2 above). The resolution, according to Setting, is 2560 x 1440.
• I also used the extended mode and the image on the monitor also looks like #2 above. Using the Setting to check on the resolution, the monitor is now set at 1920 x 1080 in the extended mode.

So you are on to something here. Depending on whether I project to the monitor, using it in the extended mode, or using it with the laptop lid closed, the images all appeared with the same degree of
lower resolution even though the resolution setting of the monitor varies. So maybe it is Office not being able to fully utilize the higher resolution or something with the Clear Type fonts.

As I mentioned, everything looks great when I boot up the laptop with the monitor disconnected, and then connect it after I have booted up and logged in.

Thanks for helping in trying to solve this interesting problem.

Albert

 

Second Monitor Resolution Confused with Surface Monitor after Windows Update

I have a second Iiyama monitor attached to my surface laptop running windows 10. The monitor is attached using a MS Surface Dock. After installing a windows update the settings are confused and I am unable to change the resolution of the Iiyama in the
"Display Settings" however the Surface Monitor has an impressive range of resolutions which are best suited to the Iiyama monitor. I initially solved this by upgrading the surface dock's firmware using the MS Surface Dock Updater, however I just installed
another MS Windows update and I'm back to the same problem.

 

What mode are you using, Extend, Duplicate, etc?