my m1330's screen is 1920x1200

so i accidently punched my screen a few days ago, this morning a dell tech came over and swapped it out..booted to bios and screen worked fine..well when i finally got around to playing with it just now my screen's realestate has grown:

 

WXGA + Fist = WUXGA?

 

How do you accidentally punch a screen?

 

idk its just one of those things that accidentally happens

 

I am a little confused....do they even make 1920 x 1200 13" screens? Or even 1680 x 1050 for that matter...

 

... WTF?! How does this compute? I don't think they mkae 13,3" WUXGA screens either..

Could you open the NBR frontpage in fullscreen and take a picture?

 

Yeah I was about to ask this..
Ok time for a punch on my screen.. With or with out power on?
Just playin

 

wow! thats really odd

 

Screen shot of Display Settings please

 

That is cool. Maybe there is a secret way to unlock different resolutions on any size screen?

 

its kind of blinding me being so tiny..

 

That is indeed 1920 x 1200 :|. In such a tiny laptop??? :|

 

Yeah.. I bet you could get quite a bit of cash for that on eBay, but personally, i couldnt stand using something with such a high DPI on a screen that small...

 

im gonna have to punch mine now. thanks for the tip

 

No, you cannot create pixels out of thin air.

 

Wow. If only more tech problems could be solved by physically abusing your equipment. XD

 

The OP's screen didn't get more pixels by punching it. It was replaced after being punched.

 

What the deuce?! I would love to have such a dense screen like that. Luck of the draw for you. I doubted since I thought 1920x1200 in a 13.3" wasn't available yet, I'm wrong.

 

That's weird...:O
But awesome!

I didn't know it was possible to have such a high resolution in a 13.3 inch screen...

 

I think there's a simpler explanation to all this - simply, some drivers have problems and they show a higher screen resolution. Furthermore, you see on modded drivers that you can take the screen resolution to "beyond" the capabilities of the physical screen, the LCD. It's just a driver issue.

 

What is the monitor hardware id in device manager?

 

that is pretty sweet

I would sell that screen on ebay

 

Its posted on Dell's direct2dell blog site. Owners of xps1330 systems purchased between Sept 1/07 and Dec 1/07 can get their 13.3 lcd to display 1900 x 1200 by punching the screen.

lol I'm making that up - but that's pretty cool however you managed to get that done.

 

no seriously, is this possible by modding the drivers? or newer version of the screen?

 

Same question here? What video driver does the OP use?

 

I seriously don’t think the actual screen has that many pixels, most probably a driver glitch. Somehow the driver has managed to properly resize and draw a 1920x1200 on a 1280x800 screen. Something similar to taking a screenshot of a 1920x1200 desktop and resizing it to 1280x800.

 

it's impossible!!! what drivers are you using? i wanna try 1920x1200 on my 15.4in

 

Wow, and it actually looks fine. Doesn't look like how it should when a screen isn't running at native res. And besides, you can't have a screen running at higher-than-native, right? Only lower? Or unless there really is a glitch in the driver, as someone else mentioned.

Still, wow. Keep it then sell it when your eyes can't take it anymore

 

It's impossible for the drivers to display a resolution that exceeds the panel's native resolution. The physical panel must be capable of displaying 1920x1200 in order for you to see that resolution.

The only thing the driver can do is to give you the option of 1920 on a 1280 panel, and then display the 1920 as 1280, and allow you to scroll around the screen to see the various parts of the 1920 that don't fit into a 1280.

While I don't doubt the OP, I am curious as to what panel shows up in Device Manager under Device ID.

 

Switch back to 1280x800 and see if you get a sharp picture (like you should, when running in native resolution). If not, then something else going on…..

 

NO, not impossible !. I can remember enabling a scrollable high resolution screen (through the driver) few years back with an old GeForce 3 desktop card. I couldn’t see the whole screen at once (like in this case), but could scroll up/down and left/right. Cant remember what that feature was called.

Anyways, the video driver is software, it can be made to do anything. What makes you say that nVidia cant emulate a high res display and get Vista to draw a large desktop, then resize/scale-down to 1280x800 through the driver software before actually displaying it on the screen?

 

Your GeForce3 Scrolling thing is what I made reference to in my post that you quoted - again, the screen is still displaying AT 1280x800, only it is allowing you to scroll to to 1920, but even the best software cannot override a hardware limitation.

As for larger-then-down-scaling, which is the same thing, (which I referred to in my previous post and you also mentioned here, above) there is nothing stopping a driver from doing so. But the screen cannot actually display at a higher resolution than its native resolution, even if it does allow you to jump around a 2560 pixel desktop.

 

I'd love to have 1920x1200, I cant imagine their screens are any different to what they sell or even other replacements so if they did have screens that allow 1920x1200 you would surely have heard more people talk about it.

How can the drivers change the max resolution? Does anyone have any idea?

 

can you check what driver you are using? or explain what the tech did to have that to somehow appear?

 

You can get it so that the resolution is set to, say, 1024x786 on a 800x600px LCD screen, and it filling only the physical size of the screen by 'squashing' the pixels produced by the graphics chip into the number of pixels displayed by the screen, much the same way that 800x600 pixels can be 'stretched' to fill a 1024x786 pixel screen.

I think that may be what PhoenixFX was referring to originally.

 

HELLO!!!!!!!

YOU GUYS ARE BEING BAMBOOZLED!!!!! He's running LOGMEIN to another computer!! Look at the top of the screen. You CAN'T hide the drop-down menu!!!!!!

Observe:
1280x1024 screen, with 1680x1050 logmein session in a window:




This little thing at the top of his windows give it away:

 

So that what he was doing. I thought he had taken a screenshot of another computer, and the displayed that image fullscreen...

Next time, use realVNC. There are no menus in that.

 

LOL.

So did anybody actually try to punch their way to get this too?

 

How bored must some people be?

 

Once again, the OP never claimed the punch did this. He said that the replacement screen he got after punching (and destroying) his own screen was WUXGA. Read the first post again. Anyone who though that this was real or that you could get a higher resolution by punching it is an idiot.

 

That was the first thing I thought too, when I saw the photo. but after seeing so many replies, maybe I thought there is something to it... maybe a driver bug or a hidden feature (to display more content by down-scaling a high res output or something)

 

Just remember that and LCD's max display is just that, its max display. There are no hidden "features" to get an LCD to display more pixels than it can support. If anything ever did find a way to display more pixels, it would be software driven and you'd still be at your default resolution.

You wouldn't be gaining anything, especially real estate.

 

What I meant was software resizing by driver, not actually displaying that many pixels...

 

lol I have to admit I looked at it like wtf and then I saw the little menu at the top. Then I scrolled through all 4 pages to see if anyone caught it. lol.

 

I wondered what that was. I thought it was something else.

 

Nice trick for the Christmas! We aren't amused though!

 

Obviously you have never heard of HULK SMASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!

 

I'm starting a new business...



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