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Display driver down-rezes after standby? :(
After awakening from standby, the screen momentarily displays the proper resolution, then goes blank and then displays a very low resoution (from 1680 x 1050 to 1024 x 768) on my E1505 laptop.
This only happens with my daily limited user account. If I awake the computer from standby when logged on as an admin, however, I don't see this problem.
I'm using the Dell's Vista driver for my Intel 945GM (GMA950) display adapter (ver. 7.x). I did notice that Intel's latest Vista driver is ver. 15.x. So, I'm wondering if I shouldn't give this Intel driver a shot, despite the warning from Intel that the vendor's (Dell) drivers should always be used first.
This only happens with my daily limited user account. If I awake the computer from standby when logged on as an admin, however, I don't see this problem.
I'm using the Dell's Vista driver for my Intel 945GM (GMA950) display adapter (ver. 7.x). I did notice that Intel's latest Vista driver is ver. 15.x. So, I'm wondering if I shouldn't give this Intel driver a shot, despite the warning from Intel that the vendor's (Dell) drivers should always be used first.
- Well, I gave it a shot. But, oddly enough, the installer detected that the driver isn't "validated for this computer" and to go to the manufacturer for the driver.
The odd thing is that I just did a clean install of the final RTM Vista shipped directly from Microsoft. Prior to this I had been running RC2 for a couple months and had no issues.Message Edited by floepie on 01-28-200710:18 PM
- OK, I got it working by simply removing/uninstalling all video adapter installed drivers - including the ones from Dell (v. 1114) and Intel (v. 1141). The one that was installed automatically when Vista was installed is v. 1138, which is from August 2006! And, as you can see Dell's is actually older than this one, but they date it as released Jan 23, 2007! This shows you how far behind they are.
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Did you guys ever get this resolved? My resolution problem is similar - ViewSonic 22" (VX2235wm) and an E1505 with the Intel chipset - the only choices I get are 800x600 and 1024x768. Drivers are updated; I've uninstalled and reinstalled the ViewSonic driver, done 2 clean installs of the OS (XP Media Center 2005). Has Dell done something to the Intel 945GM driver so they get 1680x1050 on their internal monitor, but no one else can get it? Could really use some help...
Message Edited by WhoWantsPopcorn on 07-08-2007 04:45 PM
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Posted January 29th, 2007 01:00