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Boot Resolution and VESA modes

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MurderCityDevil

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Ok, i'm not sure exactly what section this should go in, but here goes: I have 2 monitors, one 24 inch one 22 inch. Just recently I switched around the DVI cables on my GTX285 so that the 24 inch is plugged into the 1st port, and is the main display for the BIOS splash screen, booting, etc. It turns out that my BIOS/VESA/whatever (I don't know what controls boot resolution) cannot handle 1920x1080, so everything prior to booting into an OS is stretched and has a black border around the image (BIOS splash screen, bootloader, OS loading screen, etc). Is there any way to patch something to add this resolution? And can someone actually explain what is happening and why it looks like this? Thank you in advance!
 
Almost all PC's boots at 720x400 with 16colors (actually 80x25 text mode) for the diagnostics screens and 640x480 with 16 or 256 colors for motherboard logo screens (the full screen ones that hide POST information) and Windows boot screens. Your first monitor was just stretching that to fit the screen, while your second one doesn't.
 
Is there any way to edit what modes are supported? Could this be patched via motherboard BIOS or video card BIOS? If not, can I at least somehow make my 24 inch stretch the screen like the 22 inch does?
 
MurderCityDevil said:
Is there any way to edit what modes are supported? Could this be patched via motherboard BIOS or video card BIOS? If not, can I at least somehow make my 24 inch stretch the screen like the 22 inch does?
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No patches, it's a basic mode that all PC compatible video cards are capable of displaying. To allow more modes both the BIOS and Windows boot loader would each have to probe the video card to see which modes are supported then compare that to a configuration setting to see if there's a match. That's just too much work to be doing when the objective is to get into the OS as soon as possible.

As for forcing your monitor to stretch the screen, it'd be something in your monitors settings.
 
ryan_975 said:
No patches, it's a basic mode that all PC compatible video cards are capable of displaying. To allow more modes both the BIOS and Windows boot loader would each have to probe the video card to see which modes are supported then compare that to a configuration setting to see if there's a match. That's just too much work to be doing when the objective is to get into the OS as soon as possible.

As for forcing your monitor to stretch the screen, it'd be something in your monitors settings.
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Do you happen to know if there are any guides outlining how to do this? I tried googling but I didn't even know what specifically to search for.
 
MurderCityDevil said:
Do you happen to know if there are any guides outlining how to do this? I tried googling but I didn't even know what specifically to search for.
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The user manual for you monitor should outline what each of its settings are for and how to get to them.
 
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