I never saw it as a replacement for the appropriate support channels, so i don't need to continually hear the official view :emotion-7. I was under the impression that this forum is a user forum for like minded owners of Dell machines, you know, so they can exchange and gather knowledge of and for their Dell system and hopefully extend their capabilities or their life. Intel® Desktop Board i'm familiar with that Intel EOL page and no doubt Dell has a similar EOL page for the sx280 but as i'm not asking for official support, i don't care for such references. does Dell black list 16:9 aspects within video (system) BIOS? can one modify the GMA inf file to reflect 16:9 aspects? how?Ħ. can one modify the video (system) BIOS to include 16:9 aspects? how?ĥ. what should happen if edid returns a 16:9 resolution, what will the GMA driver do?Ĥ. since the sx280 has DVI output, one would expect it fully supports fetching edid from any monitor. Do you expect that this 800圆00 OS resolution over DVI/HDMI should work?Ģ. So, this brings the following questions to mind.ġ. In my case, the sx280 resolution was defined within the OS as a 4:3 resolution (though can't remember what the setting was at the moment) but i will try once more using an OS resolution of 800圆00 and see if i can log into windows xp when i'm connected to my plasma panel via DVI to HDMI cable. I understood the norm has been that if the display device does not handle the resolution set within the OS, the OS detects this (via some edid or monitor inf magic) and drops the resolution to the video bios default resolution which is 800圆00 (which we know the TV can handle via DVI/HDMI). This explains why at system boot i see the Dell logo :emotion-1: It does not explain why, once the OS video driver takes over, i get a black screen :emotion-6: The video BIOS default resolution is 800圆00. To paraphrase, when the 910 Grandscale chipset was developed by Intel circa 2005 and integrated into the motherboard by Dell, the VIDEO BIOS (which is incorporated into the system BIOS) only had 4:3 resolutions defined. but this workstation is just too big to throw into the living room so maybe a rasbery pi (satire) would do better than an sx280 (guess this just highlights why PC sales are tanking but that's another discussion). PS: As an aside, i have a HP Z210 with a motherboard mounted DVI connector and a much more powerful CPU integrated graphics core (relative to the SX280 graphics) that exhibits the exact same behaviour. So has anyone managed to get widescreen video resolutions to work on an intel 82915G/GV/910GL chipset based system without purchasing external converters or USB graphics systems? There only seems to be marketing reasons artificially limiting capability to sell more new machines :emotion-6: Note: You may want to search: EDID OR DTD OR ModelineĪlso read the About tab in DTD thanks for your reply but i was hoping for a little more technical information on whether Dell has limited resolutions via (video?) BIOS in some way or whether somebody has successfully tried using the latest intel drivers (that are meant to allow for custom resolution settings) and succeeded in getting widescreen video resolutions to work.įrom what i have read, the chipset has the grunt, so ancient or not, vacuum tubes or not, there is no technical reason why a widescreen video resolution should not work. This is where DTD Calculator can be used to view/update the registry - no guarantees here be careful, etc.Ġ1 1D F0 72 41 D0 1E 20 6E 28 55 00 BB F9 10 00 00 1Eģ0 2A 30 78 60 84 4B 30 14 14 88 00 BB F9 10 00 00 1E But these may not be selectable in your monitor settings - perhaps locked out in bios. You might think that since the file included lines for 720/1080 resolutions, that your job is done. Install from the directory where you unzipped, and where your saved. Set TotalDTDCount to 4 (search on TotalDTDCount, and you can see how this was disabled with a 0 setting). Do not install yet just unzip so that you can edit the igxp32.inf file with notepad. zip file (says it's for developers, but it has the igxp32.inf file).Įxample: winxp_14324.zip is the file for the 945Gģ. Determine which Intel Graphics chip you have and download the. (I don't recall if Intel drivers were needed on non-Dell PC's.)Ģ. You might try to use DTD Calculator on your PC before installing new drivers. Once enabled, there are some 720/1080 resolutions available, and others can be created using DTD Calculator ( ).ġ. I have had success with the drivers from Intel, which include the file igxp32.inf - where you can enable setting other resolutions via modelines. I also asked Dell to provide the XP video drivers to support their newer monitors with the sx280 and g圆20 usff pc's.
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