HP W1907 - 1440x900 not available

[vnyga]

>Edit: i also wanted to note that i had been using the same monitor, with a older graphics card, NVidia Geforce 9600 GT
>up until yesterday, with a perfect 1440x900 resolution created custom in nvidia control panel. I had seen this same issue
>crop up before when installing new nvidia driver updates.

Have you told this to Nvidia?
Now they suggest a problem with the EDID?
>is there anything to do with this that could be affected by video driver installation?
It doesn't seem so - EDID:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_display_identification_data

(That's why they blame it - it's not their part ...)
But if you say that the monitor worked with an older driver, then it seems to be a driver problem ...
That Nvidia don't want to hear ....

Sorry, you may end in buying a new monitor.

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

EDID is digital and would not come into the issue with an analog connection.

Your video card or drivers could be the issue.

Did you ever confirm that installing the correct monitor driver (inf) did in fact give you the ability to select 1440 by 900?

[Anveshan]

can you send me your edid values ? please its urgent for me ! please

[Buskieboy]

I've had this problem with my HP Pavilion Laptop for over 3 years!  I've NEVER found any kind of solution and I find HP's lack of support for this issue terrible. 
Why would you ship a laptop that can not sustain it's FACTORY RESOLUTION?  HP shipped it as a widescreen laptop and yet the drivers can not handle the 1440x900 resolution.  We are constantaly told that it we need updated drivers or there's something wrong with your monitor.  The problem is never seriously looked into or some kind of patch, solution or workaround has NEVER been offered or even discussed.
I first started to have this problem when I hooked up my laptop to my TV after which the resolution would come and go between what I have found to be the lesser of 10 evils 1280x768 and the native 1440x900.  It was a crap shoot as to when the native resolution would come back.  It sometimes would show as an display option, sometimes.  Eventually I lost the resolution option entirely and I've NEVER been able to get the "native" resolution back.  
In my search to find a solution over the years I have come to the conclusion that it is in fact the EDID data that seem to be the culprit.  This gets effected when you update your driver or God forbid hook up your laptop/PC to another monitor or TV.  
Drivers need resolutions divisable by 8 and of course 1440x900 is not which is why it seems to reject the resolution.  
I guess anyway.  This is the closest I've been able to find out WHY this happens but there doesn't seem to be any solution, which is sad that NOBODY is interested in correcting this!  

To be fair to HP the issue seems to be with Intel and it's drivers.  Even so, I can't understand why HP, Intel and others can't resolve this issue.  There are A LOT  of us out here.

It's all very confusing but you can read about it here:

EDID EXPLAINED

and more specifically the issue with widescreen resolution and how EDID and graphic drivers screw up the native one:

LIMITATIONS OF EDID AND DRIVERS

[JBS_hahaha]

Problems solved. Just change another VGA cable.

I tried different dirvers. It turn out there is nothing to do with them. If the VGA cable has defects, the monitor can not be correctly recognized.