Dangerous-Dave

Hi all,

I'm trying to do something that I thought would be easy but is turning into a big nightmare: getting my laptop to run at 640x480. The laptop is a Toshiba Tecra M9, sporting an Intel mobile 965 express graphics chip. The drivers that I have, 6.14.10.4831, only permit from 800x600 to 1280x800, but I need 640x480 to run a projector off the laptop. I've contacted intel and toshiba are both are frankly useless (toshiba didn't even get back to me). Does anybody know of any drivers that would work with this chip that allow 640x480, or alternatively how I might be able to alter my current ones to allow/unlock 640x480, or better still of any utility like atitool (?) that might allow me to do this?

Cheers.

dman61992

boot into safe mode. It will boot natively in 640x480.

Dangerous-Dave

That didn't work, however something related kind of did, so cheers: I booted into vga mode. Then when I boot in normal mode it's still at 640x480, and that res is on the drop down list within the intel application. So it seems like it's in the driver, it's just that it doesn't display the option most of the time. Is there any way that I can force it to let me have the option all the time?

dai

this is the latest driver listed by toshiba for your model

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-...0922115327.zip

to install

save to the desktop where you can find them easily for the install

in the device manager uninstall the video card
reboot tapping f8 and choose vga mode
when windows finishes rebooting
disable a/virus
install your drivers
reboot the computer

Dangerous-Dave

Hi,

Thanks for the response, but those are nvidia drivers, and I have an intel graphics chip. I'm still stuck - I was messing with that second monitor thing for a while but then i realised that those are the settings for a tandem monitor, not the settings for amn alternative monitor as outputted from the vga port. So I'm still stuck. The laptop will only output at the resolution the main screen is at. And that won't go down below 800x600. I don't want to have to uninstall the driver before each use of the projector, and anyway won't that result in crappy performance?

Any help appreciated. I've been at this for aaaages.

DD

dai

the specs came up with nvidia

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/tosh...-32450875.html

http://notebook.driversdown.com/note...r_102970.shtml

Dangerous-Dave

Hm I don't really understand it. I've looked at the reviews but my system insists that it's using intel 965 graphics. Not only that but the screen's native resolution appears to be 1280x800, not 1440x900. I tried to install a few versions of the quadro nvs 130 drivers, including the latest from the nvidia site, and every time it says I have no hardware that's compatible with it.

And it's definitely a toshiba tecra m9 by the way. Or at least that's what it says on the casing.

dai

the link above are to the intel driver

http://notebook.driversdown.com/note...r_102970.shtml

after the M9 there are some further model numbers which would identify nvidia or intel