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Got it to work. I missed a couple customdisplay's...

You sir are the man!

I have never installed powerdesk for the analogue version as it just buggered everything up. Is it really necessary for the digital version?

Yes if you want anything above 3028x1024...I have never had any problems with powerdesk, only ndivia's stupid drivers!

:rockout :rockout :rockout

Finally got it working thanx to you my friend :cheers

Reporting working here with i7 960 and SLi GTX260+ with 195.81 beta at 59.000 on Windows7 x64. Only 182.50 to worked before. Thank you. :)

Played some games and it seems mostly stable. I have experienced a few failures (e.g. in Avatar demo) where screen goes black (monitor goes to power saving) and sometimes locks up PC. Other times, Win7 is still running but without a visible display so I have guess key combos to shutdown and restart. After a clean reboot, it works properly.

I suspect that this may have something to do with display drivers not recovering properly after going to sleep or hibernating. I can't remember if I have ever experienced this from a clean boot then straight into game. This was happening since I switched from Vista x64 to Win7 X64 and every single driver tried.

Also, a warning for people using device profiles. The random fan speed profile bug is still there. I use device settings > profile to set up custom fan speed vs temp profile because the SLi cards are too close together (stupid ASUS mb design) and get too hot using the default auto-fan control. If I watch a movie for a few hours, sometimes the driver would randomly lower fan speed to 10% or jump to 100% (I am monitoring fan speed with Everest). I need to reset it from manual to automatic to manual again or reboot to make it work again.

Re: 5040 fix.. Not sure if this was something "fixed" in the latest NV drivers but have to admit that I never ever considered trying 59hz because all the docs I read here say to use 57hz only.

Please correct me if I am wrong but isn't 5040x1050x59hz beyond the DVI dual link specs. Are we over driving the output? Does this mean that we can use monitors that cannot handle 57hz now?

Anyone else having flickering issues when moving the mouse around on a webpage?

I feel like I am going to have a cesure when surfing the web...

Reporting working here with i7 960 and SLi GTX260+ with 195.81 beta at 59.000 on Windows7 x64. Only 182.50 to worked before. Thank you. :)

Played some games and it seems mostly stable. I have experienced a few failures (e.g. in Avatar demo) where screen goes black (monitor goes to power saving) and sometimes locks up PC. Other times, Win7 is still running but without a visible display so I have guess key combos to shutdown and restart. After a clean reboot, it works properly.

I suspect that this may have something to do with display drivers not recovering properly after going to sleep or hibernating. I can't remember if I have ever experienced this from a clean boot then straight into game. This was happening since I switched from Vista x64 to Win7 X64 and every single driver tried.

Also, a warning for people using device profiles. The random fan speed profile bug is still there. I use device settings > profile to set up custom fan speed vs temp profile because the SLi cards are too close together (stupid ASUS mb design) and get too hot using the default auto-fan control. If I watch a movie for a few hours, sometimes the driver would randomly lower fan speed to 10% or jump to 100% (I am monitoring fan speed with Everest). I need to reset it from manual to automatic to manual again or reboot to make it work again.

Re: 5040 fix.. Not sure if this was something "fixed" in the latest NV drivers but have to admit that I never ever considered trying 59hz because all the docs I read here say to use 57hz only.

Please correct me if I am wrong but isn't 5040x1050x59hz beyond the DVI dual link specs. Are we over driving the output? Does this mean that we can use monitors that cannot handle 57hz now?

I think we all can use 60hz normal monitors with the 59hz setup, as far as I understand, 59hz is the upper limit of thr dvi spec 330mhz~

EDIT: REMOVED.....Already mentioned in the first post.


When in doubt, refer to the first post. :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown

number 7 at the first post.

thank you...

Thank you ... elior77 ... :twothumb

I have only been able to get Triple-Wide in Win 7 64-bit with the 181.71 drivers and I've been so busy of late that I gave up on Triple-Wide ... I went back to 3 x 5:4 monitors.
So ...
I already had the latest firmware, Powerdesk and drivers installed but I was running 3 x 5:4 monitors.
I switched to my 3 x 16:10 screens and followed your directions from "run the wizard for 1680x1050x1 @ 60Hz" in point 3.
In the custom resolution settings I set the Vertical refresh rate at 59.400 and all worked fine ...
I now have 5040x1050 @ 59.400Hz working in Win 7 with 195.62 drivers ... :surroundsmiley

Here's some links to the latest firmware, Powerdesk and drivers for those looking for them ...
Firmware (2.3.40.t6.56) ... http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=360
Powerdesk (2.06.00.026) ... http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=354
Drivers (GeForce 195.62 Win 64-bit) ... http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql_uk.html

Love sent ... :triplewide

Edit: typo.

Thanks, Paddy, for posting those links. That will save me lots of time when mine turns up on Thurs.