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TomekM

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November 21st, 2003 18:00

1600x1200 nVidia resolution

Everytime when I reboot my I8200 the display automatically goes to 1600x1200 resolution though I set it at 1400x1050 before shutting down the system. I always set 1400x1050, confirm it and it stays 1400x1050 until rebooting.

Do you have any idea why this is happening?

Rollie_R

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November 21st, 2003 19:00

TomekM,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

Please try removing the driver from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, and then remove the display adapter from the Device Manager.  Reboot your system, and install the latest driver from our website.

 

ReWeN

131 Posts

November 28th, 2003 00:00

All resolutions smaller than the highest supported will appear blurry, this is because of the technology used in LCD screens. Because of this, the driver tries to force you to keep the highest resolution possible. Hence why Dell has 3 different screens you can get with each laptop. You should have gotten the screen that was made for that resolution ;)

hkrsk

13 Posts

December 7th, 2003 13:00

I have an 8500 with the nVidia card. For 8 months, I have been running at 1280x800 resolution with no problem. For the past week, once in a while, on starting up the screen is automatically reset to the default resolution (tiny icons and text), and my desktop icons are all rearranged into one corner of the screen. Did the above fix work for you? If so, I'd try it too.

ReWeN

131 Posts

December 7th, 2003 14:00

hkrsk, it sounds like you're just running a certain program that is running at a very low resolution. When the resolution a program runs in is smaller than the space used by the icons on your desktop, the icons all get shoved into the corner. Also sometimes the resolution fails to get set back to the resolution it was set to before running the program. The icon thing happens to me when I run certain games, so I just set my icons to auto arrange and gave up trying to keep them in any pattern on the desktop. The resolution thing happens to me if I shut down the PC while in a game or sometimes just after exiting the game.
 
 

hkrsk

13 Posts

December 7th, 2003 15:00

ReWeN-

Thanks for the idea. The only applications I'm running lately are Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Microsoft Word, and Media Player. I haven't been running any games or other apps that change the resolution, and the desktop looks normal before shutting down.

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