win2k refresh rates.

[Rags]

Oh and as to how much lower it allows as opposed to how much your monitor can really withstand, 8 is well within reason of most OSD's protection.

Rags

[EvilDonnyboy]

yea. It wouldn't give my the warning at up to 84hz. But one more notch to 85, it give the damn thing. But its all fixed now.

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[dZeus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Why should I be careful? You can go past that limit anyhow using monitor settings, it just won't allow you to use them in games. I think that's stupid, I say if a guy wants his refresh rate to be 85 Hz, win2k shouldn't care.</font>

What I meant is that people should be carefull not running their monitor _unwantedly_ at refresh rates beyond their specifications for a long period just because they overlooked that a service pack changed Win2k's behaviour and they applied the fix.. that's all

I understand that 8 is within what the protection allows often (though mine switches off directly when I use one Hz over specifications ). The question was what the exact behaviour of win2k was (if it read out the .inf monitor timings incorrectly, like say it uses a horizontal refresh 8 lower than specified as a max. I was just curious if you knew this