I've got this old dell system with i810 video and it works great with a dell 2007FP with its 1600x1200 video, but a dell e228wfp just doesn't want to go higher than 1280x1024 under windows 2000.
The native resolution of the e228wfp is 1680x1050.
Apparently, the video bios was written long before (circa 2002) there were any widescreen resolutions like 1680x1050.
I guess I could get it working if I run with linux, a very clever person figured out how to "patch the video bios".
http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/intel-widescreen/
I'm going to boot it up with knoppix and see if it can handle the full resolution.
edit: yes, knoppix works with the full 1680x1050 resolution.
This isn't the first time I've found an old video card driver that doesn't like high resolutions, a matrox g200 under win95 positively hates my full hd 1920x1080 monitor and won't boot up properly, instead going to something like 640x400x8 and squawking that it can't find a good resolution. If I boot up with the monitor switched to another system (with my KVM switch), it will boot up just fine. I think it just doesn't handle all of the resolutions that it gets from the EDID.
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