Lcd monitor resolution
Hi, if I understand you right, your LCD can display 1680 X 1050 but your PC/Video can only display a max screen resolution of 1280 X 1024 (or something like that).
Right click on your desktop, go to properties, Go to the settings Tab, see how high you can bring the screen resolution (towards the right). That is the limitation of the built-in video (S3 Graphics UniChrome 2D/3D Graphics with motion compensation) of the MSI KM4AM-V (2004). If this will do for you, then you're set, if not then.....
To be able to display resolution higher than that, you have to add an AGP Video card capable of the 1680 X 1050 (ATI or NVidia or your choice as long as screen res is high). Your motherboard has one AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot @ 1.5V 4X/8X. This will also hold if you already happen to have an AGP Video card but with relatively low screen res.
Hope this be of some help to you. Pls post again how things turn up. Regards
The restriction is in the motherboard's BIOS: Windows S3G driver depends on BIOS to provide widescreen resolution (unlike fgrlx driver for Linux which provides widescreen resolution irrespecticve of BIOS). For K8M800-based motherboards, one needs custom BIOS with vga module that supports widescreen. It can be extracted from Abit KV-85 motherboard's latest BIOS from 07/09/2007 with the help of Award's CBROM utility, and then injected into your motherboard's BIOS file in place of vga module that sits there. Then, flash modified BIOS according to your manufacturer's instructions, and upon reboot, Windows will have widescreen resolutions available.
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