Praveen

Thanks for replying JW.

BTW, my laptop is just 8 months old

Acer TravelMate 4052NLCi
Intel Pentium M 726 processor (1.6GHz, 400MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache)
15" XGA TFT LCD
40GB HDD
DVD/CD-RW combo
768MB DDR
802.11 b/g wireless LAN

Looking @ the configuration i guess that vista should support atleast
1024x768 resolution.

Further, the driver installed i guess its windows vista driver, and not
intel. I was not able to find any latest INTEL video drivers for Vista.

However, the driver which vista is installed for my Laptop TFT/LCD is
"Digital Flat Panel (1024x768 60Hz)"

Regards,
Praveen


"JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
news:eKOfMljEHHA.4024@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A fixed pixel display only has one native resolution just like an electric
>light sign on the freeway. If you select a resolution other than the
>native resolution the graphics card just scales the image of to fit the
>native resolution by adding pixels(up) or deleting pixels (down scaling).
> From your problem description it appears that your native resolution is
> 800x600 and that the MS supplied WDDM drivers in Vista for your card were
> or still are doing a poor job of downscaling the 1024x768 image.
> After you downloaded latest Vista drivers from the Intel drivers and you
> go into device manager does it show the Intel drivers instead of the MS
> WDDM drivers. If not although they are installed it appears that Vista
> has not started using them.
>
> "Praveen" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:1FEF7F6B-36F1-4655-A299-71E3D50DA551@microsoft.com...
>> Thanks for replying...
>>
>> Q1: native resolution supported by my Laptop (Acer Travelmate 4052NLCI)
>> is 1024x786 and 800x600
>> Q2: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (Microsoft
>> Corporation - XDDM) and 64MB Shared Memory
>> Q3: I had run Windows Update, and i have downloaded, and installed latest
>> INTEL driver for the video card without any luck.
>> Q4: Before VISTA, i had Windows XP Professional and it was running fine
>> under 1024x768 resolution.
>>
>> If you require any more details, please let me know the same
>>
>> Regards,
>> Praveen
>>
>> "JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
>> news:eLgbNDdEHHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> It would be easier to help you if we knew:
>>> 1. What is the native resolution of your Laptop screen.
>>> 2, What your laptops video card/chip is and how much on board memory it
>>> has.
>>> 3. If you have run Winupdate with your RTM release since I understand
>>> that there are 11,000 drivers available with it in addition to the
>>> 19,000 that are contained in the acutal RTM release.
>>> 4. Prior to upgrading to VISTA Ultimate RTM did you have any problem
>>> running 1024x768 on your laptop and if not what OS was it running?
>>>
>>> "Praveen" <praveenreddy_sofwiz(no-spam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:7069EB16-6CC4-4A6F-9392-397B6E4E1EEA@microsoft.com...
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Windows Vista Ultimate (Final release - MSDN)
>>>>
>>>> Windows vista set to 800x600 resolution works fine. However, when i try
>>>> setting the same to 1024x768 resolution my screen stretches vertically,
>>>> and i cannot see start menu/taskbar?
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> I have a latest Acer Travelmate 4052NLCI Laptop with 40GB HDD, and
>>>> 768MB RAM
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,and Regards,
>>>> Praveen
>>>
>>>
>>
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