Re: Help wanted for video driver.

Seems to me a bug in their miniport driver. If you don't own the driver, you
*could* probably workaround it by unchecking "Hide modes that this monitor
cannot display" box in the display advanced property page.

--
Calvin Guan (Windows DDK MVP)
NetXtreme Longhorn Miniport Prime
Broadcom Corp. www.broadcom.com

<birdman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1136308740.276739.9320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi there,
>
> I have an unfortunate combination of a Samsung LCD display (710v) and
> an
> Asus mainboard with an integrated SiS 661 video adapter.
>
> The display is designed to work at 1280x1024 60Hz and it works
> perfectly
> on other video cards.
>
> The SiS 661 video card works perfectly at 1280x1024 with other CRT
> monitors.
>
> When I try to use them together the maximum resolution available in the
> Windows XP settings is 1024x768.
>
> If I erase the SiS driver Windows will start with his default VGA
> drivers which allow me to use the display at 1280x1024 but the graphics
> are slow.
>
> I tried to download and install several drivers from SiS and Asus and
> also to reinstall Windows but I always have the same result. I also
> unsuccessfully tried to install different monitor drivers to try to
> make
> the video card think it's a normal CRT display.
>
> Is there any way to override the driver settings changing values on the
> registry?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help,
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Paolo.
>


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