Thread: 800x480 on intel 945GM/GMA950 - is it possible?

Now it's madness.

1) I removed the Nvidia graphics card. I plugged my Lilliput monitor back to the mainboard VGA port and my NEC 2080 monitor back to the mainboard DVI port. Rebooted.

2) I uninstalled the Intel Express driver. Rebooted.

3) Upon reboot, the NEC monitor came up black and the Lilliput monitor came up with 800x480!! The monitor properties dialog confirms 800x480 and the Driver is shown from Intel Corporation, Version 6.1.0.929 . The aspect ratio seems correct. The monitor shows 640x480 in the on screen menu which is to be expected. The image looks good. The monitor properties shows only 800x480, no other resolutions.

The problem is, I have no clue how I did it! All previous attempts at installing 800x480 drivers gave error messages. So apparently one of my previous attempts at installing a 800x480 driver came through. Now I'm afraid to change any settings because I could loose the 800x480 again. I guess I'll create an image of the hard drive to have something to revert to.

Hi vladcarpc

I received the same error message many times!

If you have the patience, please try installing the driver in a fresh Windows install that has never had another display driver installed!

I write this because the readme file from Intel suggests as much.

Are you sure that 5.1 is the latest version of EGD for your chipset? The version I have is 6.1 but it's for the 945GM chip set.

When I strugged with getting 800x480 on my 855GME, I finally figured out that when both a "signed" driver and* the intel one is installed, windows will pick the one that's signed, and not by the last driver installed. To overcome this, go to "update driver", "Advanced", and then "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install." Here you can pick whatever you what. That way you can override XP's tendency to choose the "signed" driver.

whoo hoo, I helped.

Instead of waiting for Giuliano, you also have IEGD (obviously), so you can do your own. If you have a xenarc, you can try the settings linked from the first post on this thread. If you have a lilliput, you can try my settings. I'll have to post them later since I don't have them at work with me.

Originally Posted by vladcarpc

Yes your trick works! Now I have the Intel IEGD 5.1 drivers installed. Btw, the new 6.1 version doesn't support the 815 chipset, thats why 5.1.

So vlad and psyrex: How did you overcome the "All the components are not installed correctly. Please try installing again" problem?

psyrex: can you be a bit more specific what you did before you did the "update driver".

Or are you guys saying that you did not use the installer at all? Instead you just point the "update driver" to the .inf file in the Driver directory?