Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

I am not in clone mode, I am currently viewing two independent displays. I am using two 30" external monitors connected with Dual-Link DVI to the E-Port Plus and their max resolution should be 2560x1600. Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit is only allowing me to set their resolution to 1280x800.

The native resolution of my E6400 is 1440x900 so no monitor should have a limiting resolution of 1280x800.

 

Then there could be a problem with the information your monitor is providing about its resolution capabilities. In Windows XP there is a setting to show resolutions that are not supported by the monitor and I guess there should be something similar in Vista. Try that to see if it allows you to set higher resolution than 1280x800.

You can also see if you can find and .inf file for your monitor.

Örjan

 

Try manually forcing the resolution options: Right click on the desktop, select properties, then Advanced, then Monitor and de-select Hide modes that this monitor cannot display. You should then find that the display resolution slider control has a much bigger range.

My other suggestion would be to reinstall the graphics driver since this installs a table of the resolutions that the GPU supports. Maybe that is stuck at 1280 x 800.

John

 

I have tried both of your suggestions many times, I am not a novice pc user. Here's another odd piece of info. When the graphics drivers are installed I get a popup info window telling me that I am not running at my optimal resolution and to click the bubble to go to the display properties and change my resolution to 2560x1600. So the system recognizes that I should be at 2560x1600, but is not allowing me to select it. I have also tried manually inputting the custom resolution and that does not work either. Connecting only one monitor also does not work.

I would really love to hear from someone else with a similar setup.

 

I have 1280x1024 working without problems on my E6400 but I have Intel Graphics so it is not the same setup.
What resolutions have you tried to force on the monitor? There could be some dual-link problem and if that is the case you will not be able to go above 1920x1200.

Örjan

 

I cannot specify any custom resolutions. I always receive "custom mode test failed" messages. I even fail the test with 1280x800 without changing any of the settings!

 

Has anybody with the seagate momentus 7200.3 HDD's managed to update the firmware using the Dell package?

I simply cannot get the CD image to work (and it won't boot up from the CD either).

 

The Bluescreen BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER seems to go away for now after i disable Power Options -> Change plan settings -> Change advanced power settings -> USB selective suspend setting -> On battery: Disabled and Plugged in: Disabled

 

not sure if this is the problem or not, but the dell system software (Which I previously suggested NOT installing in this forum) includes a lot of KB hotfixes, and since installing it (against my better instinct) I have not had this BSOD appear again -- some of the KBs described a similar BSOD error. note of concern, the software is NOT uninstallable, and does not show you what it is doing, or what it is for. I do NOT enjoy having things installed that I do not have control over, but it might be worth ghosting your setup, installing this to see if it fixes the issue (which I would bet it does), and then narrowing it down on the hotfixes that it installs.

 

yes. I am guessing you've done this right, but you need to burn the image to a CD as an image, and not data. once you have done that (and can get the system to boot into the CD - hit f12 on startup if necessary) go into your BIOS, changed the SATA mode to ATA. it will give you an error saying you will likely have to reinstall, say okay, save, exit, load from CD. the firmware upgrade on ATA mode will take approx 15-20 minutes. once it finishes, restart the computer, go back into the BIOS, change back to IRRT (assuming you were on that to begin with), and you are good to go. let me know either via the forum or PM if you need further help.